The Joys of Simple Living: Water

[Curmudgeoness]

1. Fascinating to contemplate the difficulties just for water.

I live in a house with municipal water....all that I want whenever I want. But I still often think about how lucky I am and I am very conscious of the amount of water that I do use. This may be due to a week I spent at a mountain cabin that had no water supply. We also had to go down the road to get water, haul it up to the cabin, and realized just how much you can do with a gallon of water. First we would have a small pot for washing dishes and one for rinsing. The rinse water became the next dish washing water. The dirty dish water was used to flush the toilet when needed. I still remember this after more than 40 years.

I do not ever want to live without water coming from a faucet again, but I am still very conservative.