{"id":5940,"date":"2004-06-25T06:18:50","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T13:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/06\/25\/normal-but-not-normal-enough.html"},"modified":"2014-11-23T09:09:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T16:09:47","slug":"normal_but_not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/25\/normal_but_not.html","title":{"rendered":"Normal, but not normal enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite rains that (while were gone) brought June precipitation levels back up to normal, <a title=\"Rocky Mountain News: Local\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/drmn\/local\/article\/0,1299,DRMN_15_2986499,00.html\">Denver Water won&#8217;t be easing restrictions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Which is probably the right decision.  Lives are not at stake here, and it&#8217;s better to be overly-conservative with watering restrictions than overly-liberal.  And, no, that&#8217;s not a political statement &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">Given the brighter water outlook, board members talked about adding a third watering day to the current two-day regimen because customers complain they have to cancel family trips so they can water on weekends. <br \/>\nOther customers say work schedules made it difficult to water on the correct days and during the limited hours.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there are some limited number of people for whom that is a real issue.  That&#8217;s how it goes, alas.<\/p>\n<p>For the others, let me suggest the following ideas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sprinkler timers.\n<li>Hiring a local kid to come by and water for you during appropriate times\/days.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xeriscape.org\/\">Xeriscaping<\/a>.  Or, at the very least, significantly reducing the amount of lawn you have in your yard (which has the most watering restrictions on it).<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, watering restrictions are a PitA, I&#8217;ll grant you that.  There are certainly times when it would be more convenient for me for them not to be in place.  But come on, guys &#8212; this was not all invented just to make your life difficult.  It&#8217;s a growing part of reality here, and simply trying to ignore it isn&#8217;t going to solve it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite rains that (while were gone) brought June precipitation levels back up to normal, Denver Water won&#8217;t be easing restrictions. Which is probably the right decision. Lives are not at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather-and-climate-change"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8132,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/11\/water_water_eve-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":5940,"position":0},"title":"Water, water everywhere","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-May-05 5:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Or, at least, a lot more in the Denver area than there has been. 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