Why do I get the urge to start writing a post-apocalyptic story or two?
Oh yes.
Seen at 11 Alive:
Some DeKalb County businesses got a hard lesson on just how serious Georgia’s drought is—someone’s been stealing their water—and police are taking this crime very seriously.[...]
“I roll the hose up a certain way,” said Gary. “I noticed it wasn’t rolled up that way on the weekend, and then I noticed someone had been disconnecting my hose from the spicket.”
Then neighboring businesses mentioned the trucks with water tanks they’d seen parked alongside it.
All this after an auto shop received a water bill showing that consumption had more than doubled, after conservation measures had been put into place. They’ve since put a lock on the external spigot.
I’d think this was all rather incredible, but after the tale told last week of the Cobb county resident averaging water usage of almost 400,000 gallons each month, and a Wall Street Journal piece describing folks in Florida who use more than a million gallons a year… it seems some folks have a water addiction.