Water wars…
Neighbors turning on neighbors.
City officials seem to be getting their way in casting blame on residents for using too much water.
Here is a recent dialog has been going on at in our local community listservers Wpdrncnews and Onalist where residents observed a librarian hosing down a sidewalk after our new water restrictions have taken place.
Just went by the Mar Vista Library and they were HOSING down their sidewalk – guess they didn’t get the memo about our drought,
restrictions etc.!Shame on them!
and…
Did you stop to ask them? A lot of folks still don’t get the word, and the “public relations efforts” of plain folks like us who are a concerned part of the community can pay off, too. Often a polite (non-shaming) one-on-one conversation can change attitudes.
and…
Hello All,
I talked with the head librarian at the Mar Vista Library. She was washing sticky soda off the sidewalk because there were complaints about the mess being tracked inside the library. She jokingly said she knew no good deed would go unpunished. Everyone is still welcomed to come by anytime and check out a book.
She has made sure her staff knows about the water restriction. Please keep up the effort to help neighbors understand how to meet these new requirements. More information is available at http://www.ladwp.com
Best regards,
Jim (CD11 staff member)
I hope my neighbors don’t try to “shame” me into conserving water more than I already do. They will get an informed earful on how misinformed they really are.
Here is the bottom line…
I have no problem with the librarians efforts to clean up a mess using a hose. It’s unfortunate that we are now at a point where our quality of life has been so compromised by city’s incessant drive to build, build, and build that we have to defend cleaning up a sidewalk or take a shower for more than the prescribed 5 minutes.
This has been all too predictable. How many more proposals will we continue to see where four residential parcels will be turned into forty housing units or half block of parcels are turned into a 2000 units before we realize that it is having a negative impact on our quality of life?
The Mayor and the entire city council are to blame for this unfortunate situation. I’m not going to blame mother nature or Federal judges on this. State and local politicians (and even our neighborhood council) have to be singled out for creating this water shortage because none of them are stepping forward to question the city’s planning policies. None of them are asking just how sustainable is the regions housing policy?
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