North Carolina Governor Mike Easley has seen water use in his state reduced by 30 percent, and then slip steadily up again even as the drought gets worse.
In an address yesterday , Easley hammered a favorite theme: Water conservation as patriotic duty.
But he went further, calling on public utilities to tier their billing so as to make water more expensive for the biggest users.
He also reinvogorated his shame game by vowing to simplify a website that shows each utility's water use to make it simpler to read -- and simpler to identify the systems doing the least to deal with the drought.
Seems to me Easley -- who, by the way, is not terribly comfortable in public -- is showing more leadership on this issue than our own Gov. Perdue, who seems intent on blaming outsiders, not residents, for the state's plight.
With the crisis only growing, it's time for some self-reflection, Carolina-style.
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