Water
All my life, while I was growing up and living at home, we were short of water. We had our own well but it didn't have lots of water coming into it. We had to be very careful or the well would run dry. We had to skimp on the use of water, -for everything. Dad built a cistern to hold rain water for use in the bathroom and some of the laundry, but when it didn't rain for a long while, we had to be careful about the use of that water, too. There were times we had to haul in water.
To this day, though I haven't had to live with use of water restrictions for many years, it still hurts me to turn the water on and let it run. I've been thinking about this now because the water in the hot water spigot comes out icy cold when it's first turned on. A good bit of water runs uselessly until the water is hot. How many gallons are wasted this way? I only guess at this time since I didn't measure it, but it seems like many. I still hate to see precious water running down the drain without being used to some purpose.
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