Posted on 05/09/2016 1:15:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Gov. Jerry Brown is ordering California to permanently follow some conservation measures taken during the state's drought.
Brown's order on Monday came as water officials consider whether to ease a 20 percent conservation order for cities and towns. The order does not set a mandatory percentage for saving water.
The latest call for changes came after El Nino storms left a healthy snowpack and brimming water reservoirs in Northern California.
Brown's executive order requires cities and towns to continue monthly reporting of water use. In addition, bans on overwatering lawns will become lasting.
Brown's executive order also requires better drought planning from cities and farmers.
The state is also required to prepare emergency water restrictions for 2017 in case the five-year drought persists.
Officials say Californians have saved a year's worth of water for 6.5 million residents since Brown imposed the conservation mandate.
California last year marked its driest four-year stretch in history.
The winter El Nino storms brought near-normal snow and rainfall to Northern California, filling major reservoirs. The storms largely missed Southern California, however, and overall nearly 90 percent of the state remains in drought.
The easing drought has prompted many water districts to say they want to set their own conservation targets. Others say the state should completely drop the drought emergency.
Officials, however, say the bruising drought has not ended, and nobody knows how much rain and snow will fall next winter.
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Some of the larger cities in this state are planning new or expanding existing reservoirs for their needs-why doesn’t Cali do this-is it because of the NIMBYs?
We never cut back on our water use. The only thing we did was adhere to the days they said we could water our lawns. We also upped the watering time and ran them twice on the OK days. Once in the morning and once at night.
I said.......ill cut back on my water use when they send all the illegals back where they came from and stop flushing our water out to the ocean to save a stupid fish. They’ve done neither.
Cali needs more cisterns and less illegals and snail darters.
Where? Where could we get all that water....
In the very olden days, central California was a very dry desert. Then the people figured out how to bring water to the arid valleys of California via an ancient practice of damns and aqueducts. A lush, green and moist environment developed over many decades. When the atmosphere re-absorbed some of this moisture, it created a weather pattern that further distributed moisture across the state.
Then came the folks to protect the creatures who’s habitat MUST have been impacted by Man’s manipulation of the ecosystem. We had created farmland in a desert. This was BAD.
Now government is returning the desert to its natural state and asserting it’s control over the now precious and rare natural resource that is Fresh Water. This is in spite of being a coastal city where desalination technology is readily available and used all over the world.
You can’t fix stupid and apparently can’t vote it out of office either.
DEPORT ALL THE ILLEGALS first, and if there really is a Drought, why don’t these clowns put a HALT TO ALL NEW CONSTRUCTION, There is NO WATER. But then the politicians would lose out on all that bribe money developers pay.
Dubai has no water either...don’t they use desalinization? Oh well...never let a crisis go to waste!
I’m in Chico north of the Bay area and for the past month it has rained at least every week. Big Chico creek is flowing fast and so is the Sacramento River, which is too strong to tube down. I say nuts to you Jerry Brown.
I wonder what Streisand and Speilberg and Winfrey and other Hollyweird royalty will do when Moonbeam tells them tough sh*t about not being able to water the lawns on their estates?
You SHOULD see the estates in Beverly Hills GREEN as can be yet the little folks grass is as dead as dead can be!!! These elite BASTARDS. could care less about drought!!!!
California could have addressed this 30 years ago which was 3 droughts ago.
Much of the water infrastructure is left over from the 50’s and hasn’t been upgraded since.
My feeling is this is why CA is pushing Global Warming...
So they can get Federal funds (which of course they will spend on something else)
I believe Carlsbad CA will open a new plant next month thanks to the persistence of the city and the private company. Santa Barbara is reportedly trying to re-commission their cloud plant. Several other counties are under consideration.
The Carlsbad plant took 14 years to turn the shovel. The wackos fought at three different administrative levels and when the permits were issued a court entertained a law suit giving them a 4th chance to delay and kill the project.
How bout fracking for gas
You SHOULD see the estates in Beverly Hills GREEN as can be yet the little folks grass is as dead as dead can be!!! These elite BASTARDS. could care less about drought!!!!
Can’t have that either. Cheap energy = freedom for the peasants. Can’t have that.
The only water use allowable will br to fill movie stars’ swimming pools.
San Diego County has a recently opened desalination plant in Carlsbad.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Carlsbad-Desalination-Plant-Opens-361844511.html
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/dec/13/poseidon-water-desalination-carlsbad-opening/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsbad_desalination_plant
Jerry Brown didn’t like it one bit, I’d wager.
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