Posted on 04/05/2015 3:36:45 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) said Californians will face heavy fines for taking long showers.
Brown said, “This executive order is done under emergency power. It has the force of law. Very unusual. It’s requiring action and changes in behavior from the Oregon border all the way to the Mexican border. It affects lawns. It affects people’s — how long they stay in the shower. How businesses use water.”
Brown said to enforce his order, “Each water district that actually delivers waters — water to homes and businesses, they carry it out. We have a state water board that overseas the relationships with the districts. Hundreds of them. If they don’t comply, people can be fined $500 a day. Districts can go to court to get a cease and desist order. The enforcement mechanism is powerful. In a drought of this magnitude, you have to change that behavior and you have to change it substantially.”
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no more drinking from the water hose?
Governments in California - at all levels - have screwed up. They are supposed to ensure the people have water. If they can’t do something as basic as this then what use are they?
So Mr Brown - what is your plan to get the people of California more water?
Eyeballing it tells me we need 0.2% of Great Lakes water.
Sounds like a Bond villain's scheme. In fact, I think that was the plot in "Quantum of Solace."
What about my commode “courtesy flushes”? They keep harmony in the family and among coworkers.
didn’t I read not too long ago that Oregon has offered to sell a lot of water for Kalipornia?
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This is my third serious drought in California and, like you, I learned that if you voluntarily conserve too much too early you really get screwed when the mandatory cutbacks arrive. So we use the same approach as you.
There’s the kid’s movie Rango... where the mayor controls everyone with water
http://www.sandiego.com/articles/2011-03-09/movie-review-rango
just about anyone whos lived here for anytime at all,,,,and isnr half asleep could have predicted this
I don’t really know, I would have to think about it.
I know that I am conscious of water, and am aware of what water I am using, and what for, and how much of it that it should take to do what I am doing with it, that alone will reduce waste.
If you shower with a friend, do you get extra time? ;-)
very similar to gores carbon “footprint”
In my home state of Minnesota the gov’t is saying the state is in drought http://www.startribune.com/blogs/298554281.html
You know the land of 10,000 lakes - really more then 17,000 + ponds, rivers, creeks. None are dry. Wait for the spring floods.
I believe this is just another manufactured crisis by the democrats.
In California they are literally flushing fresh water out to sea and refusing to build more reservoirs.
plan? jerry will contemplate our misery and demand even more sacrifices be made
california is overridden with pseudo environmentalist hacks who despise just ..about everybody
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