Is it Against My Constitutional Rights To Tell Me How Much Water I Can Use?


Is it Against My Constitutional Rights To Tell Me How Much Water I Can Use?

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In Phoenix or any other city in the water starved west, at any given time there is someone who has set their water timer wrong or left their sprinklers on, sending a river of precious water down the street into the gutter and down the storm drain.
Somewhere else is a water meter slowly spinning even though nobody is home because a toilet tank flapper is old and leaking and although the owner probably hears noise coming from the toilet they don't think much about it.
Yet another homeowner has a huge lawn of non native San Augustine grass that requires a thousand gallons of water day just to keep living and another thousand to look green and pretty.
These people pay their water bill, some as high as one thousand dollars per month to keep their urban oasis in the desert green. They work hard and make good money so why shouldn't they be able to use, and pay for, as much water as they want? It is our constitutional right for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It says so right there in the constitution right?
For some keeping a lawn green with a thousand dollars of water per month is part of their pursuit of happiness.
The rest of us should just leave them alone and mind our own water bills, right?
The problem with letting water hogs guzzle our precious water supply is that if everybody used as much as they wanted there wouldn't be enough for those of us who don't make $500,000 per year to afford water. While it may be a bit socialistic, we can't let a few people hog up an unfair share of the PUBLIC water supply for their own needs. Just like in the old west where the poor dirt farmer, who depended on the trickle of water coming down the creek to water his livestock, had to take up arms against the rich rancher who built a dam across the creek above his land.
Water belongs to all of us and when the firemen need to put out a fire there should be enough pressure on the line to save my $150,000 house as there should be to save a million dollar home.