Posted on 05/10/2015 4:56:39 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Experts estimate there will be less than a year's worth of drinking water in California reservoir's at the end of 2015
Yet the rich and famous of Los Angeles continue to water their lawns with apparently no concern for conservation
Photographer John Chapple recently went out in a helicopter to photography the ever-green lawns of Kim Kardashian, Barbara Streisand and Petra Eccelstone among others
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Not sure that I’d get bent out of shape on the basis of these pictures: 1. The pictures might be quite old and precede the drought. 2. They may be trucking water in from who knows where. 3. As noted here, it might be artificial grass. 4. Others? As with most things, more data is needed before an opinion can be formed.
Who cares if y'spring a leak, right ?
Has anyone EVER suggested this in a viable way to a politician that might be able to get it done?
Honestly (I'm ashamed) .. I NEVER thought of it and I think it is brilliant
>> An overall plan for the nation, with each state doing its part.
“From each state according to its ability... to each state according to its needs.”
Central water use planning, comrade! With the glorious FedGov in charge.
It all sounds so romantic... collectively speaking.
>> I think it is brilliant
To each his own. I think it’s an incredibly horrible idea.
Why is it an incredibly horrible idea ?
So ... a little commie speak and we fold up our Ametrican sidewalk ?
DeToquville said we were great because we were good .... What did he base that statement on ?
IIRC, he was talking about our religious ways and tolerance for each other because we were, for all practical reasons, unified in belief in the same God .... the God we all prayed to for RAIN ... and we all thanked when it came
I guess we all ain't we all no mo.?
>> Why is it an incredibly horrible idea ?
#1: Do you REALLY want a federal bureaucracy governing every aspect of using and producing water — from where, and how deep, you drill a well, to how often you can water your lawn and wash your car? ‘Cause what happens in California and Texas (my own perennially drought-plagued state) will affect (say) how often you water your lawn in Pennsylvania. Do you really want that degree of control by the government that brings you that miracle of efficiency, ObamaCare? Think about it.
#2 Where do we stop with this concept? Why just water? North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Texas all have natural gas production. Tennesee has little. That’s unfair... the producing states should pipe it to Tennessee (coerced at the point of a FedGov gun). And how about granite? I hate the prices I pay for a granite countertop. New Hampshire calls itself “the granite state”. C’mon New Hampshire... you’re getting our natural gas and Michigan’s abundant water — pony up that granite for all of our benefit?
#3 How about states like Colorado? What do they have to offer? Nothing but “scenery”. That’s why Colorado was basically ignored as a pretty wasteland for hundreds of years (until gold and silver were discovered, but that’s about played out). So under your plan, every other damn state will send Colorado their God-given fruits, and then what? They’ll export scenery? Can’t be done. So even MORE californicators will move to Colorado, pay nothing (at the state level) and suck up the bennies of all the other states.
I tell you, centralized averaging of the natural wealth of the states is a losing proposition.
Pipes????
Kalifonicate has the Pacific Ocean full of water! The fools just need to do what other intelligent dry oceanside places do, De-Sal.
Pipes????
Kalifonicate has the Pacific Ocean full of water! The fools just need to do what other intelligent dry oceanside places do, De-Sal.
LOL!!
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