"Yes, the actual savings of water from restaurants only serving on request is negligible. But it reminds people we're in a fucking drought. Maybe — just maybe —

"Yes, the actual savings of water from restaurants only serving on request is negligible. But it reminds people we're in a fucking drought. Maybe — just maybe — that awareness goes home with them, and they don't run the tap while brushing their teeth before bed that night. Or they take a 3 minute shower instead of a 10 minute one the next morning. " Which in turn does literally nothing to help. If you were to take all urban water use in california to 0, we'd run out of water in 10% longer a time period. So instead of a year, a year and a month. Of the 10% of total water used by urban folks, 53% goes to landscaping. So uh, killing all the sprinklers wouldn't even buy you an extra month if you were going to run out of water in a year. (there are other issues, like most homes in sacramento not having water meters until recently, and in fact, the state has only mandated that water meters exist everywhere by 2025, but ...) But sitting around pretending that conservation by urban people is going to make any difference in this drought, is just a silly game politicians are playing because most people don't understand where the water is going. Meanwhile, we keep paying taxes to build tunnels to divert more water to unsustainable agricultural use.