The quote above mentions water being diverted from agriculture to cities - now where in the developed world have the cities grown without taking water that could have been used for agriculture. Think of Melbourne or Adelaide - or any Aussie city.
Actually, in California (USA for the uninitiated), the problem is that
90% of the water coming from the Sierra, the (poor) Colorado River, and other sources, is DIVERTED for agriculture, to the expense of the cities, in particular Los Angeles (that I know too well). The USA, like Australia are large countries that can remedy their large cities' water problems by reaching far inside their lands. By contrast, Bali is small, densely populated, and has no other sources that the 4 lakes in the mountains. Why don't the hotels provide their water by building desalination plants for their own use? This is done in many tourist areas throughout the world, and all throughout the middle east. Nowadays, this technology is old and it is not prohibitively expensive.
Of course, another easiest solution is to require that each guest(s) in each room flush the toilet only ONCE a day (or poop only once daily, a difficult thing, given the Bali Belly).:icon_rolleyes:
