Op-Ed

Water Conservation Garden & Ways To Become Wealthy

In the Southwest they use to say “Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting…”, meaning water is a very precious resource. Always has been and always will be, just watch the classic movie “Chinatown.”

This has only become more and more true over time as populations and economies have grown. Needless to say, water rates are only going up from here as there is more and more pressure placed upon the water system as a whole. As our planet’s population comes close to 8 Billion humans, we will need to engineer more ways to live in a sustainable way. That is a lot of people to provide fresh drinking water for.

The great news about this kind of stuff is that it is not a touchy feeling practice for the environment, it’s about our personal bottomline and sustaining the carrying capacity of our space ship earth.

The better we are to this planet and our environment, the richer we will be. The more wasteful and unwise, the poorer we will be for it.

We visited our local Water Conservation Garden. This center in Southern California is not only a beautiful setting, it gives people dozens of […]

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