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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Conservation is for the little people.
People with money can live any way they want. All I ask is that they not lecture me on how I need to live like a dusty peasant in order not to “hurt the erf”.
I refuse to conserve until it gets bad because if you do your fine is based on reducing from an already really low usage number.
Plus, if we kill the trees, lawn and plants don’t we reduce clean air?
Be nice. Water conservation is for the little people. We cannot expect special people to be inconvenienced.
Not surprised. They need to feel special. “People should use less? Well — I’m gonna use more!! Because that’s how I roll!”
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.......
Uh, yeah, sure...okay.
Wanna buy a bridge in New York?
That stupid twit doesn't have the mental acuity of a roundworm, much less the environmental awareness to understand what a drought is.
People that are famous just for being famous are disgusting.
Southern California, which has virtually NO water of it’s own, has always said FU to the rest of the state (from whence it gets most of it’s water). During the last severe drought (1977), SoCal folks were letting their sprinklers run in the streets while those of us up north were using water from our bathtubs to flush our toilets. Southern California is your quintessential “We Don’t Give a $hit For Anyone but Ourselves” place. Wonder what they are going to do when we tell them the water’s gone, all of it. Even now, Brown is dusting off his newest version of the Peripheral Canal ( now he’s going to try tunnels) to take more water for So Cal at the expense of San Francisco Bay and the Delta. Probably resurrecting the San Luis Drain will be next so they can drain the polluted water from the Kesterson Wild Life Preserve ( home of the three billed ducks with one foot) back into the Bay. Southern California should be severed from the rest of the state and handed over to Mexico.
I notice the homes aren’t any greener than those next door.
You are asking too much. You have to do with less so they can have more,
An extremely witty retired guy I know in Las Vegas has done a great job Xeriscaping his property with desert plants. Looks very cool. One day, I noticed a blue, globe-like thing amongst the cacti. I asked him about it and he smiled proudly. “That’s a bowling ball. Adds a little color, don’t you think?”
That'll be good for a 2016 convention documentary, beamed straight into the networks' coverage.
Does Babs have her laundry out on a line?
Many years ago when I lived in the Corpus Christi, TX area there was a severe drought. However, when the cities started mandating conservation there were no fines. After a certain amount of water usage they simply turned your water off and locked it.
The rich people too. So the rich brought in and paid for water truck after water truck. They had to put up huge signs stating it was purchased water and it listed the company and phone number with a note that they will sell water to anyone. They did this to prevent being fire bombed.
Most likely the Democrats in Sacramento ruining the state have declared their estates endangered species sanctuaries.
Yawn.....
Of course water conservation in Southern California has actually led that in the north, including earlier adoption of the dreaded low flow toilets, etc. Average per capita water consumption between the Northern and Southern parts of the state are about the same, but don't let a few facts get in the way of your rant.
“I’ve always wondered why people from No Cal have always been so snobby, rude, hateful, and jealous. It’s odd but it’s always been my experience in living all of my 57 years in this state.”
Well, with a handle like SoCal Pubbie what could we expect, right? The fact that we disagree really makes cutting the state around Bakersfield a good move. Then you folks would have to bargain for water rather than just take it by virtue of your numerical superiority. Sorry, but I’m not snobby, but rather just understanding of what SoCal has done to the state as a whole. I go to the LBGP every year ( my one venture south), and I go with a black former LAPD officer who now lives in the East Bay. The last time, heading out of town, he suggested that we stop in The Valley for a burger at a place he knew (on Sepulveda). He’s been out of LA for ten years and he remarked to me that he wished that he’d had a gun with him when we went in to eat. The Valley isn’t what it used to be either.
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