I personally have been putting money into mobile home reits, energy companies and alcohol companies.

Higher rates or higher consumption?

Any newer faucets have aireators that reduce water flow or you can replace them with low flow aireators.I would recommend doing a full audit of water usage and make necessary updates / changes to reduce consumption.

From personal experience with relatives and friends, I pretty much believe that anyone with more than one DUI is an alcoholic. 

Cut subsidies for the corn product, meat product, and tax the hell out of them while you at it, tax even more alcohol and tobacco and the soft drink product.

I remember reading a year ago articles how China and India could survive a downturn in America because their own economies could absorb the loss (consumption) and keep them chugging along.

I've been reading, exercising, and studying while simultaneously cutting out my less meaningful and less fulfilling habits such as media consumption.

The thing the rich want to purchase may be a utility bill, a regular vacation, or transportation (car, Netjets, or whatever), but rather than paying for the thing from current income they first invest in an asset or business and then use that to pay for consumption.

If you are interested in renting the property as a Sober Living House, you might contact a local alcohol recovery center and see if they have any leads for you.Another idea is a battered women's shelter.

By that logic we should congratulate heroin dealers since party goers are no longer confined to legal substances such as alcohol & marijuana.