Tamarac City Commissioner Patte Atkins-Grad was miffed last Thursday when Broward officials met to discuss the region's water shortage -- at a breakfast meeting where many people never touched their glasses of water.
''This is a water summit, and it irritates me to see all this wasted water,'' she told the crowd.
Atkins-Grad has encouraged restaurants in Tamarac to stop serving water to diners unless they ask for it.
Speakers talked about the need for Broward cities to work together to find additional sources of water, including waterless urinals and treating salty water.
But no one talked about the cost. Chip Merriam, deputy executive director of the South Florida Water Management District, has said in the past that the price to develop new sources of water could cost billions.
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How about we 1. limit development, 2. encourage native plantings 3. discourage car washing, golf, waste 4. save the everglades.
oh and drink yo water.
2 comments:
hi, nice blog.
i know someones neighbor who consistently defies the water shortage law and on a weekly basis waters their concrete patio for 2-3 hours (they don't even have a lawn!).
i do NOT exaggerate. we even timed it once.
what can you do when you see such blatant disrespect to the law and environment? not much and its frustrating as hell.
you can try to call the county officials, who supposedly will fine people, but they're not enforcing it much it seems. so people continue to act as if they're the center of the universe.
hi, nice blog.
i know someones neighbor who consistently defies the water shortage law and on a weekly basis waters their concrete patio for 2-3 hours (they don't even have a lawn!).
i do NOT exaggerate. we even timed it once.
what can you do when you see such blatant disrespect to the law and environment? not much and its frustrating as hell.
you can try to call the county officials, who supposedly will fine people, but they're not enforcing it much it seems. so people continue to act as if they're the center of the universe.
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