Local stories will be filed by members of the WUSF news staff including Bobbie O'Brien, Susan Giles, Carson Cooper, Tom Parkinson, Steve Newborn and news director Rick Stone. One way to fight the drought is turn the water off when you brush your teeth. Another way is to dig reservoirs and build desalination plants. Your best intentions to save water can be thwarted by your neighbors or city hall. You can build a new house or retro-fit an old one to save water.
Some people get by on almost no water at all.
There's more water out there than you might think. Market forces might save more water than the neighborhood sprinkler police.