Bill McEwen is editorial page editor of The Fresno Bee newspaper. He can be contacted at: bmcewen@fresnobee.com. https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/contributor/bill-mcewen/rss en Climate & Weather Tue, 10 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Bill McEwen https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/community/2015/11/10/surviving-the-drought-means-learning-to-budget-water https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/community/2015/11/10/surviving-the-drought-means-learning-to-budget-water Regardless of whether El Niño is boom or bust, we have to think about water differently. We have to learn to plan our water needs in the same way we carefully plot our finances. If you want green grass next summer, that means something else has to give.