I am the president of our HOA with 20 unit’s of townhouse’s. There are approx. 35 residents. We have a Smart Water meter that I monitor daily, to head any major leaks off at the pass. We are currently irrigating the lawns 3 x’s weekly. Our average daily usage is 2377 gals. This is a total of 16,639 gals per wk, of which 5350 gals are for irrigation only. So this computes to 1627 gals per day, divided by 35 occupants, =46.49 gals per person per day. So we are already easliy below the proposed daily limits per person, w/out watering the lawns. During the drought our average daliy usage was less than 2000 per day, so I don’t worry too much about being able to stay within the new proposed limits.
We are careful with our water usage. All the faucets and toilets, and shower head meet the state low flow requirements and I don’t find this to be an inconvenience at all. You get used to it. The 1.6 gal toilets work way better than the old 3.5 gal toilets ever did. and they were installed free by the city water dept.
We take “Navy” showers, wet down, turn off the water shampoo, leave in the lather and then lather the body, then rinse. Got used to this too, kept it up after the drought was over, saves on the cost of electricity to heat the water. I’ve had both hips replaced, and for the first two weeks after both surgeries I had to bath at the sink. And thats not so terrible either. I learned how to get comlpetely clean with a sink full hot water, a fresh wash cloth and a bar of soap. Our ancestors had to do this all the time.
I just want to be able to always turn on my tap and have water come out of it. If you’ve ever lived in the country with a well, and had it go dry, or the holding tank run empty, you know how important it is to have running water on demand.
We’ll all manage just fine.
Eddie