Thinking about how to manage this piece of our life-support system are critical especially as we move into a world with warmer and less predictable wearther patterns. This may mean capturing and recycling rainwater from our roofs into cisterns via pumps and tanks. It may mean plantings that are more heat and drought tolerant. It can also include more efficient irrigation systems. Reliance on high-quality drinking water to water vast, unused lawns has come to be a accepted but unnecssary and potentially dangerious default. Below are advocacy materials I have used for either specific or general water reduction and re-use goals, primarily in Lexington. MA, where our municipal water is supplied by water from the MWRA / Quabbin/Wachusett reservoir system.