What has Mountain View done to stop issuing building permits? Nothing?

What will I do to save water? Nothing!!

How much more will you end up paying by not conserving...plenty.

My family did what could be done last year, we have been through this before.
What is different: Nothing was done for water infrastructure since our last 7 year drought. Instead the population of CA increased dramatically.Residential and Commercial Developments everywhere. Watering practices in the AG have not been adjusted, flooding orchards is very wasteful. CA water use is about 80% AG and 20% residential, how will I, by not flushing the toilet all the time, or adding a brick in the water tank make a difference? How can Nestle still use CA water from our watersheds and sell it for a lot of profit as bottled water? Why are we not doing what San Diego has been working on for the last 10 years: a desalination plant that will start working this fall, the conversion of reclaimed water for human consumption? They learned from their dire situation fast and efficient. Our water problem is serious yet I only hear about bandage solutions, our politicians are not acting, more $ is not a solution, when we are running out of water. We can learn from other arid countries and their solutions, but we need to catch up fast!

It takes about 256 gallons of water to make that 1/2 gallon of almond milk in your fridge.
There are MANY ways to conserve that don't affect our household use, but even still, after the 25% cutback, how the remaining 75% is used should be on nobody's concern right?

Well, I've recently seen the Lawn Shamers out in force, as if that one data point can tell you all about an individual's water usage. Back in '77 we had a neighbor who got completely psycho about recycling and conserving. He channeled all his reclaimed water to his yard with no supplemented fresh water used at all and it looked great. I bet he used 10% of the water that the lawn shamers used, but they still would come around now and again to tell him how HE should do what THEY do by letting their lawn die. Everyone's got advice for the other guy. We'll see lots of this in the coming months.

People, we are all in this together. Nitpicking about who did or said what is sadly shortsighted. I'm baling my kids' bathwater for my fruit trees and yes, taking out my thirsty lawn. What are you doing?

What am I doing to save water? Same thing I've been doing forever. Not wasting it.
No doubt, the Hetch-Hetchy water supply is critical. But the water gestapo is misguided, at best. Basing any projected use/conservation target on past years when the supply was flush (no pun intended!)rewards waste during those times with increased allocation during dry times. The concept that we must all cut back by some imaginary percentage is especially ludicrous considering Nestle (and Coca-Cola too?) are free to take as much as they like, and sell it elsewhere. We must sacrifice, so that they might profit?

So the city is going to seriously cut back on watering the vast expanses of grass at the schools, parks and golf courses by the same arbitrary figure as assigned to us?