Honest Water

Is there an optimal strategy for water consumption?  My family lives at the base of a volcano next to a river.  Upriver is a series of rice fields, a vinyard, a cherry farm, several peach farms, an apple farm, a Buddhist cave temple, and then nothing but nature all the way to Moniwa Dam. 

By the time it gets to our house, the river is brown and full of garbage: PET bottles, plastic bags, and empty washing machines.  My Father-in-law's eyes water when he tells me how he used to swim in that river, how it was clear and full of fish when he was growing up after the war.

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