Water droplets form an intricate pattern on a window pane during a recent, rare rain. / Dean Curtis/News-Leader

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Rain can transform the area. Grass and trees thrive. Rivers become floatable. A spider’s web becomes a bejeweled necklace, holding onto the rainwater.

The lack of rain can equally transform a region. Among other things, our water supply still hovers just above the critical 60 percent level despite the rain these last two weekends.

We were lucky to get that.

City Utilities General Manager Scott Miller has done an excellent job of informing the public of the problem, yet some people — and especially businesses — have not honored his plea to stop watering their lawns.

You know who you are. I see your sprinklers spraying early in the morning as I drive down South National on my way to the YMCA.

I saw a prime example of this two weekends ago. In the middle of a pouring rain, a business’ sprinklers were going full blast.

Unbelievable.

Perhaps more businesses could follow the example set by Wil Fischer Inc., which stopped watering its grass some time ago.