The editorial board of Austin American Statesman released an article titled Lakeside residents, your days of free water are over. In the article the author writes about how Lakeside residents have been enjoying unlimited use of water from their nearby lake without any restrictions or management from the LCRA. The area residents are aware that the water is not free for them to consume and the LCRA is aware that residents are not bound by a contract to pay for their water but yet had not enforced any action.
In my opinion I feel as if the author of the editorial is making an attempt to inform the public of the water consumption issue that is occurring while we are experiencing a water shortage. A person reading the article would think that the author is intending for the audience to be the public. The author does appear to be addressing the public but at the same time is making the Lakeside residents along with the LCRA know they are both the parties at fault and pointing out the fact blatantly.
The author claims that the lakeside residents have not been voluntarily paying for the water which they have used, nor has the LCRA been enforcing residents to pay for their usage either. The author of the editorial also made sure to include the fact that our current water levels are below average, which should cause the lakeside residents and the LCRA to take even more strides into managing the amount of water being used so that other residents do not incur a shortage of water. If a shortage of water were to occur and being that the public has now been informed of the “free water” that Lakeside residents have had access to, I am betting that the public will want to have further investigation as to if the shortage was caused by the LCRA’s failure to manage the Lakeside residents water usage.
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