water management

That dumbass TV commercial that asks "why drink toilet water?" pisses me off.
I just hope it backfires on them and makes people reconsider flushing with drinking water instead.
I believe it is essential for the current system of city water supply to continue being used as it is, so that it continue to be carefully managed and maintained. If people don't use it, it sits in the pipes and any bacteria left after purification can flourish, and the municipality would have to increase the concentration of "poisons" it uses to keep them under control. If either happens, people's faith in their water supply will falter and will use it even less, increasing the chances of bacteria occuring at hazardous levels. The whole system would soon collapse, and we'd see an explosion of in-home water filtering stations. Sounds like a great capitalist idea, doesn't it? Soon you'll be bombarded with in-home water filtration system ads (even more than today), there will be a quantum increase in waste (used packaging) heading to city dumps and, worse, in energy consumption (waste from the manufacturing and transportation of consumer-sized filtration systems and supplies, plus lower-efficiency associated with the operation of small scale filtration systems).
Meanwhile, those who cannot afford to buy bottled water will get sick and spread diseases before filling up the hospitals that are already bursting at the seams.
I'm all in favour of paying for city services and encouraging consumption of municipal water supply.
If anything needs to be changed, it should be the local storage and use of rainwater to water native lawns and flowerbeds, but there's no profit margin to be made in that, is there?