Posted on 06/05/2018 8:55:28 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
California Governor Jerry Brown just signed a draconian new law that makes it illegal to take a shower, and do laundry on the same day:
Assembly Bill 1668 establishes a limit of 55 gallons per person daily as the standard for indoor residential water use, starting in the year 2022. Violators will have to pay a fine of $1,000 per day during normal seasons and $10,000 per day if “the violation occurs in a critically dry year immediately preceded by two or more consecutive below normal, dry, or critically dry years,” the law states.
According to the attentive folks at The Organic Prepper, this allotted water ration exceeds the amount required for taking a shower and doing a single load of laundry and excludes taking baths altogether.
Writer Daisy Luther notes that an ordinary load of laundry uses about 40 gallons of water, while an eight-minute shower uses some 17 gallons of water. A bathtub holds 80 to 100 gallons of water. This means combining a shower and laundry on the same day would use 57 gallons of water, two gallons above the limit.
According to the new law, the 55-gallon per person limit will be reduced even further in future years, dropping to 52.5 gallons per capita in 2025 and just 50 gallons per person in 2030.
To ensure compliance, the government of California urges the use of creative surveillance systems to spy on all residents. Utility providers will be obligated to report on violators, and urban retail water suppliers “shall use satellite imagery, site visits, or other best available technology to develop an accurate estimate of landscaped areas.”
So as not to overburden the wealthy, there will be “provisions for swimming pools, spas, and other water features,” the law states.
The new, more aggressive mandatory water use levels set by the State Water Resources Control Board in coordination with the Department of Water Resources establish the initial indoor water allowance of 55 gallons per person per day and will also set an outdoor residential amount as well as a standard for system wide pipe leak losses.
This new law is ridiculous and will turn most honest, law abiding residents of California into lawbreakers.
Even worse, the drought has technically ended in California, so these restrictions make no sense based on current conditions.
If the politicians who run the state really wanted to solve the problem they would have limited the amount of grass homeowners can plant, and ban swimming pools.
Instead they come up with stupid rules, designed to harm those who can least afford it.
More, 'Rat On Your Neighbor' Fascism from California!
This can’t be serious.
This is why ‘smart meters’ and appliances with wifi are being pushed. Pretty soon, you’ll get a bill in the mail if you open your fridge too many times, wash and shower on the same day, etc...
Nice bit of satire! Extremely well written!.....................................................right?.................................
I can only guess that Moonbeam WANTS to hurry up the exodus of normal people fleeing the failed state of California, even faster than they already are.
Satire Right?
Not Satire.
New California Law Limits How Much Water People Can Use.
Link: http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/05/31/california-water-limits/#.WxXCC4Y10ko.twitter
Smart meters will come with printers that issue tickets
Why in the world would anyone want to live in Jerk-ifornia?
“Writer Daisy Luther notes that an ordinary load of laundry uses about 40 gallons of water.”
Not unless you have a very old washing machine.
HE washers use around 15-20 gallons.
Things are so bad in NY that people are leaving in droves. This prompted Andy Cuomo to contemplate an exodus tax. Those who leave the state will have to pay 50% of their net worth to get “clearance” by the government to exit the state.
Atlas Shrugged
“Filthy” Communists
If only California were near a large body of water and had 840 miles of coastline.
Yes, desalinization is expensive but it’s certainly far more sensible and ‘sustainable’ than relying on the relative trickle of the Colorado River.
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Who doesn’t shower EVERY day?
This is textbook Fascism.
Just sayin’.
So is there no consideration of how many people live in a house? No company allowed. Cannot go on vacation and bring home 6 loads of laundry to do? I guess you go on vacation to do laundry now.
LOL!
I was thinking the same thing! No showers? No clean laundry? Where is this...France? ;)
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