Early in the morning, my girlfriend and I were listening to the rain when we heard what we hear every morning — the automatic sprinklers. I just had to laugh. Over 3 inches of rain in two days and the sprinklers were on to add even more water.

Then, driving to work in the pouring rain, we noticed that there were dozens of automatic sprinklers adding still more water to the green belts along Fort Weaver Road.

“And in a few months, they’ll be issuing a drought warning,” I said. For evidently the people in charge of installing these sprinkler systems haven’t quite figured out — or don’t care to know — what the “rain delay” feature does or didn’t want to spend the extra $10 to buy a rain sensor.

Water is life. Hawaii needs to stop talking about conserving it and start using the technology readily available to reduce unnecessary use.

Bret Hill

Ewa Beach

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