In part of the city’s ongoing efforts to save water, Burbank is going dirty.
The city announced that more than 300 city vehicles, including police, fire and water and power trucks and cars, will go unwashed through January as part of a new water conservation program.
Showers for city employees, apparently, are still allowed.
The effort is part of the “Go Dirty for the Drought” awareness campaign run by Los Angeles Waterkeeper, a Santa Monica-based environmental organization. The campaign asks drivers to vow not to wash their cars for 60 days. In return, drivers receive a sticker to put in their car windows to help explain to passers-by that it is being done, not out of laziness, but out of the urge to conserve.
As if that hand-scratched “wash me” on the rear windshield isn’t enough.
Burbank officials have requested 350 stickers from the group to be put in car windows to help raise drought awareness.