Posted on 10/21/2015 7:01:42 PM PDT by smartyaz
Same thing with the hybrid and electric cars. Want to tax them now since they cant collect from them at the pump.
This is also a problem for homeowners who refit with low flow toilets and main line clog problems.
Rather you could make a nice rain barrel system that can filter that water, then a nice presure pump to send it through the cold water pipes, and thus also intoyur water heater.
Keep the water service from the city but turn off the incoming line flow so your metr wont run. You wil stil legally have city water to the house, but theres no law that says you have to use it.
And chlorinated, then the next town down the river takes it and adds more chlorine, brushes, flushes etc, adds chlorine, puts it back in the river.
Pretty soon downstream, you have some weird chemicals in the water, like chloroform, phosgene etc.
It’s still cheaper to build reservoirs and we have plenty of places to store water.
Use less - pay more, because it makes you feel good about yourself.....
Well not suprising we have all those stripper club bill that DWP workers charge to their city accounts also ES
Southern California has run a lot of the reservoirs dry or nearly dry in Northern California. It’s time to move beyond that by using desalinization.
Israel is getting half it’s drinkable water from the Mediterranean Sea now. It is working to increase that to near 100% in the next decade or two.
If Israel can do it, we can.
Past time to tell So. Cal. to get screwed; time for the State of Jefferson.
The entire state is ruled by the mega population centers who keep voting in these idiots, all those centers are from Sacramento, San Francisco, and south.
All prog/lib/socialist idiots; So. Cal. is a desert, always has been, always will be.
De-salinate or die, idiots.
DWP = legal mafiosos...with the help of City Hall...
Forget it Jake, it’s DWP...
they aren’t filling them, when they can
I don’t believe there has been excess water in at least the last four years. You correct me on that if you know better, but it’s my understanding that we’ve been playing a loosing battle and that’s why we’re no restrictions now.
It’s your take that lakes and reservoirs in Northern California have somehow been prevented from filling when it was possible?
If you don’t mind, could you provide some evidence of that. Just any article that supports that premise...
you are looking too local, you can pipe water from the north west from right on the other side of the mountains.
The other side of the mountains? North West? We do take water from the Western side of the Sierras. What mountains are you talking about?
As for local, we bring water in now from over 400 miles away.
Oh good grief, you're talking about hundreds of billions of gallons, constantly purified through evaporation and rain...Man has so little effect on the environment that it's barely worth talking about. We have been using the same water for millions of years and it works just fine.
Depends on the size of the river and how many towns are on it.
And who said anything about "the environment" I'm talking about the folks in towns further down the same river. I drink nice pure water up here in the woods. City people drink bottled water....I wouldn't drink their tap water either.
Do you?
Northwest, reservoir it there, pump it over the mountains during the drier times of the year into the rivers in Northern California, then pump it into the canals. Then pump it one more time into the reservoirs in the southern valley.
All this does is relocate water we have on our shores right now.
Desalinization makes much more sense.
Do you realize what a strategic threat the California Aquaduct is? Why make it even more so?
Absolutely I do...I live on the confluence of the Wabash and Eel rivers in Indiana....long downstream from Fort Wayne, Huntington, Wabash, Peru, and whatever...Their sewage treatment plants are gov't approved so I assume they are O.K......for hundreds of years, there were no sewage treatment systems here and yet, we're doing just fine. The water up there in the woods(I'm from northern Wisconsin) is used by fish, deer, porcupines, rabbits, bears, possums, gophers, skunks, squirrels,and many other creatures....yet you drink it and don't worry about water treatment plants...WELL O.K. I guess
Have they been pouring chlorine into your water for "hundreds of years"? Considering all the water treatment and sewer treatment plants upstream, how many tons of chlorine gets dumped into the water every day before it gets to you? (and then they dump in more)
You don't really think that the highly reactive chlorine just evaporates do you? No, it has chemical reactions and bonds with many other substances both organic (carbon based) and inorganic.
The water up there in the woods(I'm from northern Wisconsin) is used by fish, deer, porcupines, rabbits, bears, possums, gophers, skunks, squirrels,and many other creatures....yet you drink it and don't worry about water treatment plants...WELL O.K. I guess
No, I would never drink Wisconsin mud puddle, pond or river water. I have a dug well and I manage to keep the "fish, deer, porcupines, rabbits, bears, possums, gophers, skunks, squirrels,and many other creatures" out of it.
The water is perfect. (although I do put a half cup of bleach in it every year or so)
I recognize the purifying benefits of a little chlorine as an oxidizer, but I have all the confidence in the world that my water is not laced with a witches brew of unknown chlorine compounds.
You cannot say as much, I'm sure they don't test for the chemicals I mentioned, and treatment plant's chlorine certainly won't get rid of them.
So give yourself a break, grab a bottle of pure, refreshing, ice-cold Poland Springs (Maine) water and drink to your health.
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