While in college I sometimes worked in the cafeteria dish room, scraping plates and running food scraps down the garbage disposal. One day an exchange student from Africa saw half-finished hamburgers, bowls mostly full of vegetables, entire cookies, and all manner of other items headed for those iron jaws.Staring in disbelief, he observed, “People in my country would kill for this food.”Now imagine a visitor from a water-starved country (and there are many of those) observing how much drinking water some of our communities waste. Might his or her reaction be much the same?On the radarMost water utilities have been
