In this article the
author is talking about a place in the Erie county where the residents are
using a lot more of water than what should be used because they are in the
middle of a drought. The author states that the total water usage of all of the
residents in August this year has doubled from August of two years ago.
Although the people are using a lot of water during a drought, the county states
that the demand of water is not over exceeding the supply despite the drought.
The county states that they have it under control and that the people do not
need to worry about cutting their usage. I feel like the county is pushing the
limit between pleasing their residents and understanding that more water usage
will lead to the Lake Erie going dry, which is their main water supply. The
county needs to understand that if they are in a drought they need to regulate
the water usage of their residents and need to make limitations to how much a
person can use water in a single day. Because they feel so calmly about their
water supply, they do not care about the amount of water a person uses. Instead
of thinking about the present they should be thinking about the future or the
long-term of not limiting the water usage. If they keep doing this system, soon
the Lake Erie will dry up and they will not have a water supply. I felt like
calling the county office or anyone in charge of the water usage and trying to
make them understand that their usage system is not helping anything. They
should limit the usage so that way they save water and in case of an emergency
when there is a tough drought they use the saved water. I questioned what was
going on in their mind to think that it was okay to use so much water than what
is actually necessary. Overall this article just made me really think about
their decisions because a drought means that less water should be used because
there is less supply.
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