How to Get Kids to Do Chores: Does the Maya Method Work?

"And toddlers are great at rinsing dishes before putting them into the dishwasher."

Don't teach them kids to waste water rinsing dishes! The dishwasher works most efficiently if chunks of food are removed (scrape into trash), but not rinsed.

Your values aren’t universal. In some places water is abundant.

In some places food is abundant. That doesn't mean we should waste it.

You know the saying “X doesn’t grow on trees”? Water literally falls from the sky. Sure, there are some parts of the world where it is in short supply, but where it is abundant, there is virtually no impact of overuse in a family setting.

Comparing it to food doesn’t make sense because food has to be planted, watered, fertilized, harvested, and transported. Water that falls into a local reservoir takes a negligible amount of energy by comparison.

Yeh we should be wasteful BECAUSE WE CAN!

Who said anything about being wasteful? We're talking about two different ways of cleaning plates.

This is exactly the matter discussed here, one method being wasteful in term of drinking water and the other is not.

Which is why we should favor one over the other.