One of the essential services a society requires is provision of fresh water and disposal of wastewater. Being involved in this industry, we are in a public health and environmental issues, so I consider myself an environmentalist and a conservationist, and that is a great satisfaction I get from doing this.

These measures are geared towards leveling the playing field for those involved in the provision of accommodation services.

The R.P.I. is one of those tools that we have at our disposal.

I've just announced at a press conference that we're probably going to lose all services over night: sewage, drainage, water, etc., ... I cannot issue a mandatory. I do not have the resources to enforce it. However, I've just made the strongest message possible, and we will have police vehicles and fire vehicles going throughout Jefferson Parish with broadcasting advising people to leave now.

If everyone had one of these, it would reduce the amount of water that the whole society uses. And it would raise people's consciences that that water that comes from the sky is precious water. And that's not a gift to be taken for granted.

Water for me is so essential, like swimming.