I feel the citizens of Abilene abuse the lake. I blame some of it on the citizenry and the rest on the City Council. We all know how precious water is in Abilene, yet on a daily basis we use more water than is necessary. The city fathers talk about rationing water, if we get to a certain level in our reservoir. I personally think the level that water rationing should start is too low.
Pretty grass is nice, but conservation is better.
I find my grass returns to a lush look immediately after a God-given shower, even though it looks a gruesome brown during these days of drought. There are places, such as Okinawa, Japan, that ration water because water in their reservoir gets low when it doesn't rain, too. When the government decides to ration, it advertises it in the paper and on radio and television for one day. They turn off the water for specified periods during the day. While I was there for three years, we had water rationing four times.