Up until now, county-by-county water restrictions have made residents of Fulton and Cobb quite envious of DeKalb’s more lenient 3 days a week schedule. Well all that changed yesterday! Residents of Fulton and Cobb rejoice! We are now all in the same metaphorical, dry-docked boat.
According to this morning’s AJC, Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division has banned all outdoor water use in rain deprived North Georgia.
To be honest, I’m surprised it’s taken this long. As we’ve heard over the past couple weeks, this drought is now termed “exceptional” by state officials, which means it should only come around once a century. For now, commercial business water use hasn’t been curtailed. However, rumblings around the state suggest that the situation has become so dire that even businesses that rely on a steady flow from the tap may also soon be facing restrictions.
Yet another stark reminder that we are still very much dependent on Mother Nature to provide us with all the things that we normally take for granted.
Here’s a list of 49 ways to save water indoors too. One we’ve struggled with over the past few months is trying to breakout of the habit of prewashing our dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. If you can’t stand the smell, use the quick rinse cycle on most dishwashers, it still uses less water than “prewashing”.
For the third straight year, Decatur High School’s Carpe Diem Newsmagazine has won the prestigious George H. Gallup award for journalism. The school’s press release quotes a Quill and Scroll judge saying “You chose great topics to cover, you write extremely well, and you really seem to have a great grasp of contemporary magazine design. . . . I think your publication ‘flows’ remarkably well considering the wide variety of topics and approaches you take to your stories.”
