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Our Center’s One Billion Gallon Water Challenge has asked Illinoisans to think about innovations and behavior changes to cut our use of water significantly. It is not an easy goal. Eleven trillion gallons boggles the mind.
California’s 25 percent mandatory cut in water use supplied by local water agencies is, sadly, not an overreaction to the historic drought plaguing western states.
People tend to innovate best when forced to.
We should see innovations in technology, governance, law enforcement, industry, and human nature that may benefit us all if we let it.