After a small spat with the spouse over the length of the shower and an admonishment to turn the faucet off while brushing teeth…. I self-flagellated myself to work in my freshly washed car. (Hey, it’s one bucket of water! Not a hose!) Imagine my surprise and shock when I passed a lush, green traffic island on Medina street being watered by a municipal truck! The city worker was lavishing spouts of water on the green scape in such amounts that it was washing into the street – right in front of an apartment building with a water truck pulled up to the front, ostensibly refilling the tank depleted by an errant spouse taking 15 minute showers (or worse, doing 3 loads of laundry in one day). Did Ammanat Amman not get the memo? Did someone forget to explain that one square meter of grass needs one square meter or water – PER DAY!

Try ice plants!