Water, water , water.

On Sep. 10, 2012, The Austin American Statesman published an article about how water rules should be norm and how the lake was only 49% full. The writer is trying to pursuade adults who live in the Austin and surrounding areas.

The city started doing some water restrictions and everything was based on the lake Travis’ water level. Honestly, I don’t think a whole city should base their water restriction on how full a lake is. Austin has a once-a-week watering restriction and there are only certain hours where residents can waste that precious water. Just like the author says “Austin’s watering restrictions shouldn’t be set to tighten when lake levels drop to a certain point; instead, they should be set to loosen only when lake level rises to near-full or full”. With this, the author is very clear about the argument, if we are getting the restrictions because of the lakes water level, why we are not going back to normal if the lake is almost half-full?

The author shows a good amount of evidence. According to the writer, the stage 2 take effect when Lakes Buchanan and Travis drop to combined 900,000 acre-feet and they currently hold 882,531 acre-feet.

According to city estimates, 1200 trees on city land died last year because of drought conditions. Some landowners are opting for Drip irrigations because it’s more efficient than sprinklers and loses less water. It is reasonable that residents need to be more precautious, we need to stop wasting water because we never know how quickly the benefits of good rain can vanish. Overall, the author describes how water rules should be norm in a very organized way.