No Water No Where

Water.  When you live in southern California, water is a big subject.  There is too little, as in no rain.  There is too much, as in our recent deluge.  The cost of water continues to climb with ever increasing threats of penalties, fines, restrictions, and on and on and on.  That cost conversation is becoming a prime topic in many circles.

What is rarely heard is any conversation about water capture or whatever we would call the saving of all the run-off water we lose in a storm of any strength.  As a resident of the region for nearly 40 years it is amazing to me that nothing has changed in those 40 years.  Lots of run-off.  No capture. Still.

I don't know what it would take.  There must be many who are far smarter than I who do.  We put a man on the moon.  We can't effectively save and use run-off water?