Remain vigilant when it comes to water use

Ms. Normoyle, I’d suggest you also send your letter to Newsom and politicians so they can do their fair share by not letting water waste out to sea and instead only reduce our reservoir levels only enough to account for rain melt. The state could also build, using funds from the 2014 proposition funds, water storage infrastructure. It’d be nice to see the state do their fair share.

Yes, we need to conserve water. Yes, we need to build storage infrastructure. Agriculture uses the majority of our water so we also need to stop watering agriculture that ships overseas. When it comes to forest fires, how about we properly manage the forests? We've been having drought and wet years in California as far as I can remember. Our populations has doubled since we've built a new reservoir. Why do these conversations always go to climate change instead of taking accountability for mismanagement.

Why isn't there an outcry from Californian voters against Sacramento politicians for defying their will to build more water storage passed in Prop 1 in 2014?

Years worth of water now are flowing to the ocean instead of being stored. Why is the Sites reservoir being slow walked? Former Governor Pat Brown would have had it built by now. Why are we instead spending a $100 bil on a HSR for which there is no urgency and rider surveys show will hardly be used and cost billions a year to subsidize like every HSR system in Europe?

"Just like the wisdom of putting earnings into a checking account for current expenses while saving for future use, the same goes for water. If we play our cards right...." Do you see the fundamental problem with the logic here? One thing is earnings...a task that you personally work for and are owed compensation through that labor....and you have the freedom to do with whatever you please with that compensation because it only relates to your energy. Water is a fundamental human right. We have a Bill of Rights in our Constitution - and whether you like to believe it or not - we as Americans are currently owed God given rights to life - and in my opinion the most fundamental right of them all is access to water. We have the infrastructure in place already to provide clean water for everyone in the USA - but there is magically no money for it because the energy has to come from somewhere - and liberals arent playing ball. I am especially passionate about this because my dad actually travels the world with his group called H2OpenDoors and installs solar powered water purification machines that not only allow these remote communities to have clean water - but they can sell this water and improve the local economy. Where im from, we put our money where our mouth is. What are you doing other than complaining and trying to take freedoms away from you fellow man? Its always "we" with you people when it comes to existential "crises" but always you you you when your contrived moral high ground is encroached upon. I love long showers - and will continue taking them until i my dying day.