I was in California recently for the annual Thanda Yoga International Teacher's Conference and the news was all about the drought. The skies were clear and the days were sunny in a way that it never was back home in Baden-Wurtemburg. I don't know about you but yoga makes me thirsty and I couldn't help but feel guilty whenever I wanted to drink some water. Forget the carbon emissions that I created by flying to California in the first place, I was adding to the drought. Some of the water I was ingesting I was going to take back with me to Virginia. It didn't seem fair, moreover, I try to do right by the planet. I try to eat local and organic and all of that, but in this circumstance, was that really ethical?
Is it ethical to visit a drought stricken area and consume their precious resources? I don't think it is. Who knows if the cup of water you drink will be the last? Maybe that life giving water could safe a thirsty baby or water a row of organic asparagus.
Since I was already there, the only thing I could think of doing was to drink imported water and to skip showering. I bought a case of San Pellegrino at Costco, drank half of it while I was there and poured the rest of it out onto the plants outside the hotel just before I went back to the airport.
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