Atherton supports water restrictions, but leaves enforcement to Cal Water

Totally useless figure on water use per resident was provided by Cal Water Service. How about figures using ONLY residential customers. Omit government, parks, cemeteries, gold courses, schools, clubs, businesses, fire department use, street use, construction use.

Just use the residential meters. How difficult can that be.

Yes, Atherton, we'd be happy to give you better incentives to pay for the decisions you made. C'mon everyone, let's help by providing them with incentives, because apparently just "doing the right thing at your own expense because of your own decisions" doesn't work. I mean, not like we ever had a drought before, and of course climate change isn't real, so let's buy big, plant heavy, then ask the rest of us to help out because, well, entitled.

Thanks, Auggie - you're correct - "global cooling" er, "global warming" er, "climate change" isn't real.

If it were true,how could your champion/savior Al Gore be jetsetting around the world and powering a home which uses 20X an average home in his area??

What a douche!

Good one, Welllll! Because of course climate change can't be real if one guy is doing what you say. I mean, how can you argue with science? You got me! Off to bash my head on wall repeatedly for not thinking of this obvious connection.

So Atherton, one of the wealthiest communities in the world, thinks it needs incentives to do the right thing? Who does Arherton think will finance those incentives? It doesn't take long to realize that Athertonians think they have no personal responsilbity and expect everyone else to pay more so they get an incenctive. Sorry, but There is no free lunch. Taxpayers or other water district customers would have to pay more so Athertonians don't have to pay their own way. How is that fair? Wake up Atherton. Do the right thing - without expecting incentives.

Some Athertonians have already done the right things:

- replaced their lawns with zero water use artificial turf

- installed new low flow sprinkler heads

- shut down and emptied outdoor fountains.

So, deal with individuals not stereotypes.

Peter: I'm sure there are individuals who have taken steps, and my hat's off to them for taking responsibility and trying to do something about it. But it was your mayor and a council member asking for more incentives, and given we have a representative government and your town's household water use 3x Menlo's, you're going to need to get your representatives and a whole lot of other "individuals" involved to make a dent and, IMHO, without any incentives from the rest of us.