There are many different reasons why people are using more water than they should reasons such as caring more what they're using the water for, some of them just don't understand how crucial this situation is and are wasting the water all willy nilly. In the article “ How much water…” it talks about the amount of water a normal household uses up each day it the article it says that the average amount is about 360 gallons a day in everything we do. This is counting showers, drinking, cleaning in general and uses and that is only counting on small uses. But for these reasons people such as the governor of california has taken action of this problem trying to push upon laws to try to fight against these problems. The wasteful use by these people; there is a majority of people that just don’t know how big this problem is. it's pretty easy for this to occur; for people not to care about the water crisis since is such a common thing in everyone's household. We can get water from our sinks showers washer plus most of california is close to the ocean so we just believe we have a massive amount. In addition to everything we as a american society just want to live a life that is perfect; a life that shows are american ideals we want to live a life free of anything bothering it. In conclusion the california drought is the most important problem that california has at the