Water Shortage - What do you do?

[katepoet]

We live in a neighborhood built on the reservoir and the local council just approved a development that will allow a lot more houses to draw from the same water and to pollute the water - against almost everyone's urging them not to allow it. Nuts!

The reservoir is apparently 5-6 down this year and who knows when it will recover. It's amazing that they approved the greater use of this resource.