Don't know if your post was meant as a slam to those in rural areas Rapaire, but unlke urban and city folk, we take water from the ground with a well and are on a septic system.

The bulk of the water filters back into the aquifer. No dry wells here. We don't water lawns, deposit our wastewater in holding areas to evaporate or flush our watery sludge out into rivers, lakes and oceans.

Anyone who is on a well and personally responsible for attaining their own safe supply, at a huge cost compared to the average user, soon becomes one of the best water conservationists going.