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Things are looking bad right now.
Not only have we not had the extra rain we needed from this summer's drought, we are still receiving a good deal less rain than normal. Still on mandatory stage II water restrictions. Winter is effectively finished--it's going to hit 85 degrees this afternoon--and summer is heading towards us full-speed.
Our water utility provider is in trouble with the public because it came to light that they've been selling some of our water to farmers further south. Meanwhile, a rural area to the north of us is pissed because their utility company gave emergency water supplies to us at the height of our problems in August, and now they themselves are running too low.
I'm pretty sure that soon they will announce that all lawn-watering is completely forbidden this year, and uncovered pools will be fined as well (most are already full, but if it's uncovered too much evaporates and they require a certain amount of regular refilling.) We will still have enough to drink and shower, no worries there. The problem, as always, is the fires. Long-dry places like Arizona don't have a huge fire risk because there's nothing growing to begin with. We are increasingly surrounded by dry-as-a-bone dead wood and grass, and we're not allowed to water it...
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