California Media Discuss New Water Usage Laws In Effect – 55 Gallons Per Day or $1,000 Fine…

CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE ^ | 1/2/2020 | SUNDANCE

[bitt]

Yikes. According to new California laws on water use: you can take a shower or you can do a single load of laundry, but you cannot do both. 55 gal per day limit, or face $1k fine.

[roadcat]

So, use Old Spice shower gel to wash my jeans and boxers?

Indeed. And you can cut back on toilet flushes by pissing in the shower (before you wash your jeans and boxers).

[Seaplaner]

Starts in 2022, not 2020.

Always get at least one or two additional sources, my good FRiends.

[Brown Deer]

Fake news. ???

Governor Signs Historic Water Use Efficiency Bills - AB 1668 And SB 606 Impose New Or Expanded Requirements On California Water Agencies And Suppliers

Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1668 and Senate Bill 606 yesterday, which are jointly designed to overhaul California’s approach to conserving water. The measures impose a number of new or expanded requirements on state water agencies and local water suppliers, and provide for significantly greater state oversight of local water suppliers’ water use, even in non-drought years. They were adopted in response to Brown’s May 2016 executive order, which called to make water conservation a “way of life” in California.

Among other things, AB 1668 and SB 606 require the State Water Resources Control Board, in coordination with the Department of Water Resources, to establish long-term urban water use efficiency standards by June 30, 2022. Those standards will include components for indoor residential use, outdoor residential use, water losses and other uses.

Regarding indoor residential use, the new laws set a standard of 55 gallons per-person, per-day through Jan. 1, 2025. After that date, the amount will be incrementally reduced over time. For the development of outdoor residential use standards, the bills require DWR to conduct studies of landscaping and climate throughout the State by 2021. DWR will then provide the resulting data to SWRCB and local water suppliers for development of urban water use objectives.

In addition, the bills will require local water suppliers to calculate and comply with their water use objectives and report those objectives and actual use to DWR. New five-year drought risk assessments and water shortage contingency plans must also be incorporated into Urban Water Management Plans.

Starting in 2027, local water suppliers’ failure to comply with SWRCB’s adopted long-term standards could result in fines of $1,000 per day during non-drought years, and $10,000 per day during declared drought emergencies and certain dry years.

These are just some of the many changes ushered in by AB 1668 and SB 606. As the new laws are implemented by SWRCB and DWR over the next several years, they will dramatically change how local water suppliers plan for, report and achieve water use efficiency and drought management within their service areas.

Assembly Bill No. 1668

Senate Bill No. 606

[Dahveed]

How are the Hollywood elite going to get around that rule. Probably won't effect them or politicians...

[abigkahuna]

I had this discussion elsewhere. I actually thought it only applied to water agencies. I looked at the actual bill/law and indeed, $1000 fine, plus $500/day. During a Drought emergency, $10,000. PLUS 30 days in the hole... There has to be some hoops to jump through first, but yes, $1000 day fine.

[Rembrandt]

Once while I was in Vietnam (prob 1968) our water supply had been out a couple of days (rocket hit water line) and I ended up brushing my teeth and washing my face with beer. I don’t recommend it.

[Skybird]

OK, now all together, at exactly 9:00 pm Pacific Time, everyone in Kalifornia, please flush their toilet...

[DakotaGator]

Breakfast of Champions ;-)

[Lean-Right]

So much for washing the poop off the sidewalks....

[ronnie raygun]

So Barbara Streisand, meril streep and the holly wood female trump haters will have an odor about them?

[NTHockey]

Stupidfornia!!

[Steve Van Doorn]

from your link:
"The standard of 55 gallons per person per day for indoor residential water use is not intended as an enforceable standard for individuals"

can that mean "at this time its not intended as an enforceable standard"

[Drago]

Old/misleading news (2018)...any potential fines on water districts, city water departments, or private water companies don’t start until 2027. The 55/50 gallon p/p goal is still there tho.:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/31/california-drought-jerry-brown-sets-permanent-water-conservation-rules-with-new-laws/

Also: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3805071/posts

[Chickensoup]

The 55 gallon per day usage is an overall target.

Overall targets is what happened to US appliance industry and is why we have dishwashers and clothes washers that do not wash well. It shifts the burden of savings on to the consumer. IE in order to have the dishwasher work properly one has to run very hot water in the sink in order to fill the dishwasher with the very hot water, and use extra chemicals to clean instead of water.

It is a crippling

[sphinx]

Next step: shower sanctuary counties.

[WildHighlander57]

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3805165/posts?page=16#16

[TheNext]

Colorado wants its water back from greedy Californians. Go find your own water.

[fruser1]

The fine is on utilities not individual users.

Nevertheless, this is a typical tax-racket style government. Instead of spending money on infrastructure, they make you use infrastructure less. They only want your money to fund their lavish benefits and pensions as well as to have the ability to dole out favors that are returned in the form of campaign donations.

[Openurmind]

Source aside... Good. It has been a long time coming. Over here in Az. we have already been forced to live conservatively with water because of the very glutinous wasteful habits of Southern Ca stealing all the water from the Colorado river to maintain an unrealistic luxurious lifestyle. Seriously, the swimming pools and golf courses need to go.

City people in Ca. have very BAD water usage habits, Just like they think there is an endless supply of money, they think there is an endless supply of water, and they are stealing from others to practice this ignorance. They can’t have their cake and eat it too. They preach environmentalism, but they hypocritically won’t give up their swimming pools and golf courses.

[ctdonath2]

The fine may not be direct (law isn’t clear), but it’s still a 55 gal/day/person limit with a criminal penalty. I don’t see how a _criminal_ (or civil for that matter) penalty can be held against someone who didn’t actually do it.

I’d almost rather it be a direct fine as (incorrectly) reported, giving individuals a legal basis to fight back. Instead, as oppressive gov’t likes to do, a third party is put on the hook, obligated to make enforcement happen and more incentivized to do so.

If it’s against the water provider, they’ll respond by installing daily limiters on each home. The more curious bit hints at limits & fines on irrigation, which surely the provider cannot be held accountable for.