Posted on 05/10/2015 2:43:45 PM PDT by lowbridge
As these aerial photos from The Post prove, Hollywood celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Barbra Streisand and Jennifer Lopez continue to suck up water to keep their gardens fresh and lawns green, while Southern California withers from a devastating drought.
Experts predict California reservoirs have less than a year’s worth of drinking water left. An emergency law passed last week forces local cities to conserve water immediately. The Las Virgenes Municipal Water District, which supplies many of these elite enclaves north of Los Angeles, will have four weeks starting next month to cut water use by a staggering 36 percent. But the mandate is toothless, with the maximum fine a paltry $100.
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“I would like to ask those water critics if they ever drive somewhere just for entertainment. If so they are wasting gasoline or the fuel to make electricity and they are polluting the atmosphere. So what’s the difference between them wasting resources and anyone else wasting resources? We all waste to a certain extent so people who live in glass houses.......”
So I guess you’ve already bought into the Communist way of life. Live on top of the place that you work, never go anywhere, just crank out crap for “the common good” is that it? Both water and gasoline were meant to be used, that is if you have them. Right now, water is in short supply here.
You can’t disagree about facts. The fact is per capita water usage is about the same. Also a fact that No Cal people have been consistently rude anytime Southern Califonia is mentioned. We hardly ever give No Cal a passing thought down here, on the other hand.
“The fact is per capita water usage is about the same. “
Yeah, it’s all that flatland housing on lots that are about 10 feet bigger all the way around than the 800 square foot house that sits on them. They don’t have anything to water except an occasional cactus. The rich and powerful with their big places and lots of lawn can’t make up for the hovels in places like Compton. But still you’re in trouble long-term. The Colorado River allocation is going away now that AZ wants it, and the courts have stopped you from raping the Owens River Valley.
That Khloe Kardashian lives here?
Or that Justin Bieber used to.
The per capita usage of water not from your region is WAAAAAAAY higher in SoCal.
I don’t want anybody from South CA to say a WORD about water until they make the Owens Valley whole, and recycle and de-sal your water.
I have never been envious of someone’s house - but HOW IN THE WORLD can they live in those atrocities?
You need to re-read my post. You do read don’t you?
Good grass.
Brown gave the water away to other states back in the 70s and we’ve had to either hope for rain or pay through our ass for water ever since.
You guys are proving my point about No Cal people!
Anyway, here a a source for you, if facts matter. “Also, when you look at the residential water use per person, we’re not that far apart.”
Don’t assume stuff...I’m not a No Cal person, I just know what is right. And Owens Valley was flat theft of water rights and property value by So Cal - look it up, familiarize yourself with the fraud used to get the water from Owens Valley, then we’ll talk.
Second - regardless of how much you use or don’t use per capita, almost every drop of water used in the LA basin comes from somewhere else, far away, and LA is not shy about demanding that everyone else conserve water so there is enough left to ship to LA. (If facts matter)
The moral direction for LA (and SF for that matter) to take is to recycle and desal their water. Sure, it costs more, but you folks only consider the costs to you. You don’t consider the costs to the places, like Owens Valley, from where you take (and sometimes steal) your water.
And if conservation is the best way, then you should be using underground pipelines to deliver your water. There is lots of evaporation that occurs the entire length of the Feather River Project through the Central Valley.
To help fund that project, LA forced farmers, who had lived and farmed and ranched in the west hills for generations, to buy expensive irrigation water - even those who didn’t want it. Some went out of business then. Others changed their operations, at great cost, in order to use and pay for the water.
Now that they have a water-dependent farming business, they are being forced to do without that water, driving even more out of business...Had you left them alone, to continue their dryland farming operations, they would be viable today without irrigation. You wanted the water, you forced those farmers to pay for the water because you didn’t want to foot the whole bill, and now you are putting those farmers that helped finance your project, out of business...and the only cost to you is some brown lawns, dirty cars, and fewer showers.
And you have the gall to call the rest of California “mean”. There are VERY good reasons why SoCal is hated.
I know all about the Owens Valley. Apparently you don’t know that 85% of Frisco’s water comes from Yosemite, which is far away. But that’s okay, right?
So, in addition to being a water thief, you can’t read well either.
Show me the sentence in which I defend SF’s water consumption.
Your defense is pathetic: “I know we stole water from Owens Valley, and destroyed the finances and livelihoods of the residents...but look at San Francisco, they take water from Yosemite!” Pathetic!
BTW, you urban snob, there is a LOT more California than San Francisco and LA. All the best parts and best people live outside those two cesspools. While you might consider Northern Cal to mean SFO and vice versa, Many folks consider Northern Cal to be everything except SFO.
Ok, let’s refight battles from a hundred years ago. Isn’t that when the water wars took place? We’re veering widely off topic. The original poster said people from Southern Califorina give the biggest FU to everyone else by wasting all sorts of water. I’ve never written anything about people in No Cal EXCEPT that they have the worst bias and irrational hatred for people living “below” them, which this tread has amply demonstrated.
Now, SF’s water consumption per capita is actually quite low. Perhaps they don’t bathe much there. But, their water comes from 200 miles away. Water travels about 225 to get from the Owens Valley to the Golden Gate. Yes, there were wrongs done 100 years ago. Shall we go ahead and right all transgressions and give the whole state back to Mexico while we’re at it, if we’re going to answer all cries of injustice?
Let’s stay on topic. Southern California as a whole is not giving the finger to everyone else and wasting water willy nilly. My household used 35 gal of water per person daily last billing period. Yes, rich liberals are still consuming much more in Brentwood, and I’m sure in Marin County too. And the jerks in SACRAMENTO, which last time I looked was not in Southern California, have made the problem worse.
225 miles from Owens Valley, farther from Mono Lake, and over 700 miles from the Feather River.
You are talking nonsense when you talk about Mexico - California is part of the US based on a treaty/purchase. The Owens Valley water was outright stolen from the farmers in the valley by fraudulent misrepresentation. It doesn’t matter how long ago it was stolen, you continue to use water that was fraudulently obtained - it is relevant to the discussion.
The Feather River Project is more current. LA used the legislature to force farmers and ranchers along the west side of the valley to help pay to deliver water to LA. Many of those farms and ranches did not want the water, but they were required to pay for it anyway, since LA wanted the water, but did not want to pay for the entire project.
Now, after being forced to pay for water they didn’t want, they are being denied access to that same water....why? Because LA insists on it. “Thanks for paying for the project, but it’s been a dry year, we are the big dog, and we don’t want to recycle or desal our water, so you’re SOL, we’re taking the water we forced you to pay for.”
LA hasn’t changed its attitude or its tactics since the days of the Water Wars.
Didn’t you post something about learning history? Los Angeles hasn’t gotten water from Mono Lake in over 20 years. Besides, I don’t live in LA. And we’re still off-topic of course.
You keep squirreling around the whole point. You tried to make the claim that LA does not get water from much farther away than SF: 200 compared to 225 miles. You knew better. You knew that So Cal took water from Mono Lake, and you knew that it still takes water from the Feather River, over 700 miles away.
You were being dishonest. Which is to be expected. Dishonesty has been the hallmark of So Cal’s water acquisitions; and here you are trying to defend it.
Why don’t you all recycle your water? Why don’t you desalinate?
“I’m laughing so hard I can hardly stand it!”
And you started this discussion by whining about the “mean” NorCal people and how they always hate on you poor SoCals.
What a hypocrite you are!
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