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| California's new water restrictions send residents fleeing to saner states |
| 2018-06-07 |
| [WASHINGTONTIMES] "Please sir, I want some more," is no longer a sentiment just for Oliver Twist in the orphanage. A new law in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, limits how much water can be used by each household. Now their showers, how many flushes, and how often they can do their laundry will be under the watchful eye of the state government. This from politicians who have pushed policies creating homeless and drug abuse crises throughout the state. They have now decided to clamp down on the use of the most basic needs of civilized living. As the blog Zero Hedge put it, "it’s now against the law to do laundry and shower on the same day in the Sunshine State," and they’re not exaggerating. Under the guise of addressing "climate change," the new bill rations water to a degree that makes it impossible to maintain a healthy home environment. Perhaps the state wants everyone to feel like the drug addicts living in California’s ever-expanding homeless tent cities? Zero Hedge reported, "Assembly Bill 1668 is where it gets personal. This establishes limits on indoor water usage for every person in California and the amount allowed will decrease even further over the next 12 years. ’The bill, until January 1, 2025, would establish 55 gallons per capita daily as the standard for indoor residential water use, beginning January 1, 2025, would establish the greater of 52.5 gallons per capita daily or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use, and beginning January 1, 2030, would establish the greater of 50 gallons per capita daily or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use ...’" How do families feel about the rationing of water? CBS-13 in Sacramento asked a few: "’With a child and every day having to wash clothes, that’s, just my opinion, not feasible. But I get it and I understand that we’re trying to preserve ... but 55 gallons a day?" said Tanya Allen, who has a 4-year-old daughter." To give you perspective on how much water basic chores require, the station noted an eight-minute shower uses about 17 gallons of water, a load of laundry up to 40, and a bathtub can hold 80 to 100 gallons of water. Felicia Marcus, chair of the State Water Resources Control Board, explained this is happening, "So that everyone in California is at least integrating efficiency into our preparations for climate change." That’s nice. This same bureaucrat then noted to CBS-13, "Right now we lose up to 30 percent of urban water just to leaks in the system." As the state rations the water of the average of family, making it impossible for everyone to shower and wash clothes, let alone use water to wash the dishes, and perform any myriad of other efforts to keep a home clean and a family healthy, it’s the state itself and its crumbling infrastructure that is the biggest waster of water. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #19 Boggles that no one is looking at water rights upstream, the likes of Saudia Arabia have bought up thousands of acres to grow crops that need lots of water, gaining water rights of the Colorado River and other ground water aquifers. SA has learned that it's more profitable besides saving THEIR OWN fresh water to grow alfalfa here and ship it back to their country rather than use their water in SA. |
| Posted by: Jan 2018-06-07 20:05 |
| #18 Lots of folks have fake grass. The high quality stuff looks pretty real but I hear it'll be bad in a fire. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-06-07 17:19 |
| #17 As I remember, Arizona families had the habit of pouring white gravel across their front yards, then spray painting them bright green. Until your ornery friend/neighbor spray paints some yellow dandy lions, and you have to go flip the rock back over. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2018-06-07 14:56 |
#16 From a dystopian novel I am reading and it fits the California worldview:
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| Posted by: 3dc 2018-06-07 13:51 |
| #15 Stop watering the grass. As I remember, Arizona families had the habit of pouring white gravel across their front yards, then spray painting them bright green. Is this habit going to spread to California? |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2018-06-07 12:58 |
| #14 Desalinization plants are great, but we would need a ton and the environmentalists won't allow that. My own city of Carlsbad has one, it offsets our water usage but doesn't provide enough to get us free of water from the North. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-06-07 12:08 |
| #13 I am told the Auzzie's use them extensively. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-06-07 12:07 |
| #12 Desalination plants? I hear there are some very efficient processes these days, thanks to the Israelis I believe. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-06-07 12:02 |
| #11 What CA can do about our water crisis: (1) Stop building and building and building and building new homes. increased population sharing the same amount of water is unsustainable. (2) Allow central valley farmers to sell off unused water without losing their allotments. That way they would be encouraged to save water instead of growing rice and other water-rich crops (that pay back well). (3) Put in laws that new homes have to have non-potable water directed into toilets. (4) Realize that these things go in cycles and we will likely have a lot of water next winter. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-06-07 11:57 |
| #10 In Southern California golf courses, public parks, and whatever you call the vegetation on the sides of roads and such the city is responsible for all use recycled water. That water doesn't count so cutting it is pointless. Southern California went deep with their water cuts long ago and Northern California did not. Now Sacramento is demanding the same percentage cuts from all areas. Someone needs to ask Gavin Newsom his opinion before the Nov election. If he sides with Gov Brown on this he'll lose Southern California and the election. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-06-07 11:54 |
| #9 California's new water restrictions send residents fleeing to saner states Almost every one of them taking bits of that insanity along with them. Ugh. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-06-07 10:55 |
| #8 Watch them continue to encourage "affordable housing" for immigrants, legal and otherwise. It seems their solution for the so-called housing crisis™ is to turn the whole state into a slum. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-06-07 10:54 |
| #7 Way back when, sewers were designed for 120 gal per person, per day, IIRC. Next thing that will happen is the sewers will clog, because there is not enough flow to move the waste downstream. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2018-06-07 09:15 |
| #6 So, family of 4:220 gallons/day. Stop watering the grass. Take your car to the carwash. Sounds like an imaginary crisis. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-06-07 08:51 |
| #5 It's a G*D* desert. They've failed to treat it as such while importing millions and millions of people. Consider its natures take with water on Adam Smith's invisible hand with capital. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-06-07 07:39 |
| #4 The Bantu migration. New lands must now be found to impovrerish. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-06-07 00:43 |
| #3 Golf courses exempt? What about large to very large swimming pools? Oh, wait, sorry! Those are symbols of the elite. They mustn't be bothered, these rules are for the little people. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2018-06-07 00:38 |
| #2 A plague of locusts are descending upon America. They have ruined their HIVE. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-06-07 00:32 |
| #1 Barbra Streisand hardest hit. |
| Posted by: Varmint Bumble9211 2018-06-07 00:12 |