The modern world vs. traditional ways

"It's prohibited to wash your car with drinking water". Resources are carefully used in the Cinque Terre. For the most part, there are no cars in the five villages. Service vehicles are allowed into the towns are there are parking lots above each town with shuttle busses to take you back and forth to town. As prosperity came to the village of Vernazza, locals began buying cars, despite the fact that it was more convenient to take the frequent trains that stop right in the center of town. The town built a larger parking lot, on top of an abandoned dump, and when the floods came, both the cars and the garbage were washed downhill to the sea. As the village rebuilds it will be interesting to see if the cars will return.