Fourth in a series
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Re “Droughts Are a Cyclical, Unavoidable Part of Life – Murray”
Stephen Murray, Culver City candidate a vacant seat on the board of the West Basin Water District, says the Metropolitan Water District is guilty of “mythmaking” when it claims Southern Californians are handling the present drought in a disciplined manner.
“I have found through my research that the daily per capita use of water is pretty high,” Mr. Murray said. “Los Angeles has done a great job. The amount of water used per person every day is 89 gallons. Not a bad number. Our national average is 50 gallons per person per day. So we still have a ways to go.”
Much less is needed, no matter how clean you try to be, Mr. Murray maintains.
“To survive, all you need is one gallon a day to drink, and like five gallons to wash yourself off and keep clean,” he said. “The rest would be 20 gallons due to sanitary needs, and another couple for food preparation.”
In Mr. Murray’s four-person home, including two young children, he proudly reports that “we are in the 30s,” well under the nationwide average. “Three months ago we were at 38.”
Conservation, you may have deduced, is a cornerstone of Mr. Murray’s campaign, which ends a week from Tuesday.
No question that he is well drilled in the data and philosophy of guarding California’s volatile water resource.
“Most of the saving we have achieved in the last 10 years,” he says, “has been through passive devices, like improved shower heads. You put them on and forget about them. You don’t even have to think about conserving water. It just happens, no matter what.”
(To be continued)
