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We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, 'You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline?' Everybody would look at you like you're completely out of your mind.

A few decades ago, many people didn't drink water outside of a meal. Then beverage companies started bottling the production of far-off springs, and now office workers unthinkingly sip bottled water all day long.

I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.

What's happening on the Colorado River is happening all over the world. The water is overused, overdammed, and it's polluted in some places.

As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Conservation is important... water comes at a cost.

Fresh, clean water cannot be taken for granted. And it is not - water is political, and litigious. Transporting water is impractical for both political and physical reasons, so buying up water rights did not make a lot of sense to me, unless I was pursuing a greater fool theory of investment - which was not my intention.