Up here in Michigan, we've had our typical cool, rainy Spring. Really have only had 1 or 2 nice sun-shiny days with temps near 70. I guess water is something we kind of take for granted. But, as usual, local governments mess it up.

We're on the Detroit Water System as are most of the suburbs. The suburbs buy the water wholesale from Detroit and then tack on whatever charges they need to support the local water dept. The farther a suburb is from the Detroit border, the more they pay for the wholesale water. Fair enough.

What cracks me up is that our local township just passed an ordinance that instituted a "permanent" even-odd watering schedule and bans automatic sprinklers from running between 5 and 9 AM. . This is something usually reserved for mid-summer when the temps are in the 90's and everybody is watering their grass. All in the name of conservation when we're surrounded by 20% of the world's fresh water.

This led to the mind-boggling situation that the Detroit Water
System raised the wholesale rates because everyone was doing such a good job of water conservation that they were actually selling less water and weren't getting enough revenue. So they made the water more expensive! This is exactly the opposite of what you would think: Demand goes down, the price should go down.

Anyway, the pond on my property a little north of here is in "overflow mode" again, spilling a steady stream of water to the drainage ditch that eventually dumps into a river that leads to the lower Great Lakes and then eventually out into the Atlantic Ocean.