Nanny State PING!
Posted on 10/31/2015 7:32:25 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Upscale Beverly Hills is among four California cities whose water utilities have been fined for not forcing residents to conserve enough water during California's unrelenting four-year drought, officials said on Friday.
The wealthy Los Angeles area municipality was fined $61,000 on Thursday, making it the only community not located in a desert to be assessed penalties, the California State Water Resources Board said.
"Some urban water suppliers simply have not met the requirements laid before them," said Cris Carrigan, director of the water board's Office of Enforcement. "For these four suppliers, it's been too little too late."
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Nanny State PING!
Too many cement ponds.
Rules are for the little people. Some state regulator is going to find himself in hot water. (Unless he’s a transgendered minority lesbian. Then he might be let off easy).
Who’s been holding the Snail Darter BBQs?
Ha Ha Ha, only the poor care about a stinking 61k!
That’s chump change for that rich district. That wouldn’t even cover 1 property tax assessment for the year on a house. Nothing to worry about in this rich area.
they should start low, and then without improvement, exponentially raise the penalty....and if after 3 rate hikes, then the water should be turned off at certain times of the day...
Force the useless eater wasser wasting DemikRats into arbeitschlagerkamps, the dirty farbfernsehapparatekaufhausleiter schweinehunden!
Exactly. For the moguls that live there, it’s a rounding error on their income statements. One of them could peel it off the wad in his pocket at breakfast.
If the state hadn’t capitulated to the enviro loonies forty years ago, it would have built new dams for a drought such as this. You can’t quadruple a state’s population, not add any infrastructure, and expect a rosy outcome.
And no gefingerpoken !!!
That’s where I wanna be.
Thurston and Lovey Howell Hardest Hit! :)
it’s worse. Because of rationing, revenues from water fees are down so they raised the rates
http://www.startribune.com/california-water-rates-rise-as-cities-lose-money-in-drought/311673271/
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