I happened to notice two water related things yesterday.

(1) I could see the Sierra crest in the Yosemite area, from our deck, and
it is much whiter than normal for this time of year. Today's paper reports
that we are at double normal rainfall for this time ... a trend I hope
continues, the West needs some wet Winters.

(2) I went to Costco ( big warehouse type store) and they were trying to get
people to sign up for some service or other. As incentive to fill out the
forms they offered FREE ..... water. Struck by that I then noticed just
how much space, there at Cosco and in the local supermarket, is devoted to
water....plain old, should be a cheap as turning on the tap, drinking water.
And I noticed what a high percentage of shoppers had cases of it in their
carts and were paying for ...water.

I'm lucky in that we have tested, very pure, well water, but I must say that
the fact that so many people now pay for water .... and seem to just accept
that fact ..... is a very sad statement about the state of our environment