California Gardening: What are you doing about California's water situation?, 1 by Wifeygirl

Wifeygirl wrote:
Yeah, Samigal. The other day my neighbors changed out the water in their backyard pool, so a huge hose led down to the gutter and for a full day the water was rushing down to the storm drains. My husband was very upset! He has watched me lugging grey water bucket by bucket at a time, and couldn't believe they chose this time to empty and fill an entire swimming pool. And another neighbor uses the hose to spray-wash the sidewalk and driveway almost every day.

Although we're not much better at the moment - we're back to running our sprinklers more often again, because the lawn was dying, and we can't quite bring ourselves to bring the blight on our nice neighborhood by letting it die. And I am the one who planted a bunch of thirsty, pretty flowers in the midst of a drought. So I guess we can't really complain about our neighbors!