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Originally Posted by Dentoman
The messaging has been terrible around this situation. I thought at one point they had said we could replenish 600 million a day. Like you stated, even at 500 million, we still are adding to reserves. This type of messaging adds to the complacency. The math doesn't add up to the messaging of further conservation efforts required ... should be "Keep doing what your are doing".
Unless I'm missing something which is entirely possible
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I thought the first day was saying we were at 600 million on Thursday and we needed to cut 100 million.
I think the problem with giving specific numbers is that if I hear we are at 420 million / 500 million I’m going to cut less. So this just has complacency set in earlier.
It reminds me of the Covid numbers. Restrictions go in cases drop, as cases drops people have more contacts and the rate of dropping slows.
If people were rational then it would work, but in general we aren’t rational so more information likely means more water use faster and less ability to cut when required.
I don’t know what the correct communication strategy is. My thought would be you do the big push for a cut, then back off on the messaging for a while until it rises back to close to critical, then crank up the messaging again. The goal being to change behaviour but then let people go back to normal slowly and don’t burn out their willingness to care.