What is your advice, or hope, for the new City of Santa Cruz Water Director Rosemary Menard?

I hope that she, when thinking about it, thinks long term.

Allison Harre
Santa Cruz | Psychotherapist

My hope is that we can find a way to make sure that clean water is available for everyone, and I would consider a tertiary water treatment to recycle the water that we use.

Jenifer Lienau Thompson
Aptos | Science Writer/Mom

Get people to stop watering their lawns. Don’t flush your toilet when you just pee in it. Be more conscious of how long you take a shower. Reuse your pasta water.

Jennifer Parker
Santa Cruz | UCSC Professor

Maybe we should have two systems of water so we don’t use our drinking water to flush our toilets. And how can we totally recycle our water? How can we reuse it again? Can we do it in a permaculture environment where we bioremediate it? How can we effectively bioremediate our water and reuse it?