Landscape irrigation focus of water-reduction effort in Woodside

The cynic in me expects these massive, "obscene" water wasters to continue gaming the system....letting all their estate/household employees claim residence, they can quickly diminish their average use per person, for example.

The optimist in me hopes that a few high-profile residents will take big steps and share their methods to drastically cut back, leading the way with honor instead of shame.

Larry E, will you be the first hero?

With about 2100 housing units in Woodside, that's about 210 households to convince they need to drop their water usage. I'm fine with allowances for farms and horses, but otherwise I can't even understand how one household could use over 4000 gallons per day, on what??

Also, how are they calculating gallons per household resident? Do they know how man any people live in each house, or are they just using the avg of 3?

Many properties have 2 houses on large lots.
Many have farms and or horses

Cut water in half for pure landscaping, and most plants will be fine.

It is not often reported, but the fact is that only 4% of our water is for household use,yet 50% or more is given to animals raised as food. Cutting back on household use will produce neglible results in overall water consumption. Shorter showers, not the answer. We need to decide to want to give our food and water to animals or to ourselves. Eating animals is extremely inefficient and wasteful and completely unnecessary.We could be feeding everyone on the planet vs. using 15 lbs of grain to produce 1 lb of meat. For more info, check out www.truthordrought.com or www.cowspiracy.com/facts.

Actually it is reported all the time but unless you can pay for lobbyists to fight that battle in Sacramento, not much can be done about big Ag.

Any suggestions other than going vegan?