I appreciate our councilman’s (District 2 Councilmember Kevin Faulconer’s) guest commentary “A market-based water conservation makes sense,” Aug. 13 Peninsula Beacon, page 6.  I agree with economists that there is power of pricing consumption natural resources.  What I would like to propose is that there be an affordable lifeline quantity of water given to the owners of the water, we Americans, at our homes and that the wasters in the public sector set a good example by demonstrating water conservation and paying for their own waste. Two examples of public-sector water waste readily come to my mind:  (1) the Mission Valley YMCA that has two swimming pools and two large Jacuzzis that discharge large amounts of water unreasonably, and has two large locker rooms complete with no low-flush toilet and no low-flow shower head; and (2) the city Water Utilities Department, which regularly bleeds off hydrant-size flows for days at a time such as on Whittier Street and at several places on Catalina Boulevard.  But I’ve been waiting in vain for this councilman and the city to bring blue recycling containers to multi-unit apartments and green recycling containers to general residents in Ocean Beach for four years and, so, I won’t hold my breath.