EDITORIAL
It's premature to start splashing out
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Hey, don't be in such a hurry to turn on your sprinklers and taps. Five years of drought won't be remedied after just a couple of weeks of voluntary rationing. Yet despite reasonable warnings, O'ahu's water usage is creeping back up.
We're not at the point of mandatory rationing, but we will be if we don't hold back. The Honolulu Board of Water Supply wants consumers to cut household water use by at least 10 percent a day, and limit lawn and garden watering to Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays before 10 a.m. and after 6 p.m. (Voluntary conservation so far has been around 5 percent per day.)
Conservation is the only sure way out of a water crisis, so get with the program.
