Article of the Week Response “The Wrong Way to Think about California Water” is an argumentative piece of writing that was written by Michael Hiltzik in the Los Angeles Times. This article stresses mostly about the mere fact of how people waste water; especially in California. The major drought is causing people to use more water than we actually need to use normally. We don’t need to use as much water as we do but we just find useless ways to waste it. Bottling water is one way of wasting it. After bottling billions of gallons of water a year, we waste at least 80 percent of it. “The entire nation consumes a bit more than 10 billion gallons of bottled water per year” (Hiltzik). This quote shows that if we don’t be careful with our water