I'm one of the " if it's yellow , let it mellow" brigade. All year, not just in a shortage. We share our bathwater. I save the cold water from the tap in a wee watering can for indoor plants whilst waiting for the hot to come through. I never wash my car. I turn the tap off whilst brushing my teeth etc etc. All our water goes into a septic tank so it doesn't go into the sewage system ( god alone knows where it goes when it's emptied every few years) but I'm not going to watch plants die.
Today marks the third week since our spring stopped running.
In that time the two of have used just 24, 5 litre bottles of water for drinking, washing up and washing ourselves.
Am still managing to get water from the pond for flushing loos. The pond water is now greeny brown, so doesn't look pretty, but does the job.
I have fiiled an old spray bottle with water and used extra kitchen roll to spray and wipe plates and pans before washing them in less water, and to clean worktops and even windows.
Watering plants with pond water too, though only when I see them droop, and that only for the greenhouse plants, the veg and some newly planted perennials. Don't know how many of the rest will survive, even the ground elder is wilting away.
Feeding the sheep daily, but luckily they still have water.
Moved to tears today reading about the farmers in Australia, New South Wales, facing ruin in the awful drought; their animals starving and skeletal despite efforts to feed them. One 80 year old farm woman feeding 40 to 50 lambs a day, on date expired baby formula, because their mothers have no milk.
Their land looks like the surface of Mars and still there are people who just put their fingers in their ears and refuse to moderate their self-indulgent lifestyles in the slightest.
What will it take to stop us all being Neros and attend to the fire in our midst?
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We share our bathwater. I save the cold water from the tap in a wee watering can for indoor plants whilst waiting for the hot to come through. I never wash my car. I turn the tap off whilst brushing my teeth etc etc.
All our water goes into a septic tank so it doesn't go into the sewage system ( god alone knows where it goes when it's emptied every few years) but I'm not going to watch plants die.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
What is going on here ?