Posted on 06/02/2018 12:05:14 AM PDT by lowbridge
There will soon be more focus on flushes and scrutiny over showers with a new law signed in by the governor.
California is now the first state in the nation to enact tough new water-efficiency standards. The controversial rules limit how many gallons a person can use inside their home per day.
“So that everyone in California is at least integrating efficiency into our preparations for climate change,” said Felicia Marcus, Chair of the State Water Resources Control Board.
So, what are the new rules?
In 2022, the new indoor water standard will be 55 gallons per person, per day. by 2030, it will fall to 50 gallons.
“With a child and every day having to wash clothes, that’s, just my opinion, not feasible. But I get it and I understand that we’re trying to preserve…but 55 gallons a day?” said Tanya Allen, who has a 4-year-old daughter.
Just how many gallons do household chores take?
An 8-minute shower uses about 17 gallons of water, a load of laundry up to 40, and a bathtub can hold 80 to 100 gallons of water.
“She likes to bathe three times a day and she does laundry all day,” said Rocka Mitchell from Texas.
He and his wife Ginger are living in Sacramento for work and say it would be hard to conserve.
“I couldn’t do it. My family is way too large,” she said.
Retrofitting homes with water-efficient fixtures could help cut back.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacramento.cbslocal.com ...
Moonbeam strikes again....
Good old Moonbeam. This little scheme may even top Chicago and Seattle for Venezuela style governance.
I think what you will see is some guys running a private tanker truck operation from Oregon down to central L A, and refill pools with fresh out-of-state water....to avoid law violations. You can just imagine six-hundred trucks per day...making this pool-refresher run.
Back When, during a previous water shortage, Johnny Carson was complaining that he couldn’t wash his tennis court. A guest suggested he wash his car on the court, which was legal, and Carson got a gleam in his eye...
In time, once the “authorities gain total control of all water sources, down to the smallest creek, water will be sold on the black market... at a premium price, of course... by the same apparatchiks who control it at the government level.
Poop on the sidewalk to help save the environment. And, its legal too.
It’s easy to modify or remove the restrictors in shower heads.
A few desalination plants would solve everything and allow more water upstream to the other folks that need water.
Like my my son in Iraq...wet wipes.
He would go a monthly without a
shower. California can cry me a
river.
so who is going to pay for the inside thwe house watr meters?
take a hose from outside and use it inside?
get rid of 5 milliuon illegals in ca no more water shortage..,,
When stationed in Thule Greenland, we did the three minute dance.You shower one minute on. Then someone would turn the water off. You had one minute to soaped up. Then one minute to wash off the soap. If you did not get all the soap off, you had to wait a whole week before you could shower. It was timed by using a stop watch. All water waste was collected and use to flush the toilet. Which had a pump handle on the side and a foot pedal to dump the flushing water. You pressed the pedal then worked the pump. You had to keep the foot pedal pushed down. If you pumped then pushed the pedal down. The contents of the toilet flow back at you. you had to wash up using snow. If it was not the shower day. Change cloths outside. It no fun. Talk about cold!
Democraps (with the emphasis on crap) love scarcity. Democraps thrive on scarcity. Democraps depend on scarcity. One of the reason democraps hate Trump so much as that he threatens to make their precious scarcity scarce.
And how will they know how many people are in a household? No doubt a corps of water wardens with the power to inspect your home to see how many are living there.
Balanced budget taxation.
No, not Californians, but our Communist overlords. They know what is “best” for us.
Exactly. And with scarcity comes rationing, and with rationing comes dependence, and with dependence comes loyalty.
Quoth Orwell:
"It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it."
AND of course the politicians excempt themselves & their families. These laws are just for the little people.
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