Named and shamed: Californians blast each other for water-wasting on social media

The Daily Mail ^ | August 1, 2015 | Myriah Towner

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Californians are taking to drought shaming sites to tattle on each other for wasting water.

Residents are using the sites to out each other for reasons including neighbors with leaky sprinklers to waiters who serve water without asking as the state's historic drought continues.

The tattling has also reached social media where residents are using the hashtags 'droughtshaming' and 'watershaming' to reveal any water-wasting activities.

An app called DroughtShame was even developed to 'capture geotagged photo proof of disregard for California's water restrictions'.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Nanny State PING!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Water: it's wet!

DANG!

[null and void]

[skeeter]

Behold the worker’s paradise.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Can’t blame the evil Republicans, they’re non-existent in CA.

[Navy Patriot]

Commiefornia where “Snitches Get Stitches”, you're allowed to “Know Your Local Narc”, and Abortion Mills for Profit are guarded by tax paid SWAT. Just you dare to have a faucet that drips, Stalin would be proud.

[Axenolith]

I’ll flush my toilet 5 times to that :-)

In with early “it’s going to be an epic rain year” prediction too...

[Captain Compassion]

I saw Goody Proctor with the devil.

[GingisK]

Where is durn fault now that it is so desperately needed?

[Oatka]

The California Water Police:

[Chode]

but but but i have this rare and endangered water bug in my yard that will perish if i don't water it... you wouldn't want that now would you???

or maybe it's some endangered frog or lizard, no less important than the fish you divert millions of gallons of water for, is it???

[tumblindice]

Comrade! You have failed to catch your air conditioner drippings.

[MeshugeMikey]

here we have an example of a water district not knowinG JACK about controlling LOSSES....HUGE water losses

I was ON SCENE for the full hour that the water district looked for the SHUT OFF VALVE after a fire hydrant was taekn off its moorings during an accident

http://www.marinij.com/general-news/20140815/sky-high-drant-water-erupts-in-san-anselmo-traffic-accident

100,000 gallons escaped.

the FIREFIEGTHERS tole ME that 500K gallons were wasted in this one incident

[MeshugeMikey]

Yours truly prhotographing a MASSIVE loss of water here locallty

Im the guy in the brown eather jacket

http://www.marinij.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=zz&Date=20140815&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=815009968&Ref=PH&Profile=1030040#3

500K gallon loss the firefihhters l told me loss

[MeshugeMikey]

I should have turned in the water department....who let this geyser go on for over an hour....

BTW the shut off valve COVER was painted RED...and was less that 12 feet frpm where I was standing Im the guy holding the camera...

[ridesthemiles]

Straight out of The Third Reich.

[GOPJ]

California needs to bring in another 20 million illegals to share their water with... “Immigration” makes the country stronger, right?

[Organic Panic]

Ech... And I have to go there for 3 weeks next month...It’s a shame to see what has become of that state I loved and grew up in.