Posted on 05/11/2015 10:28:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
San Jose is the latest big city in the state to ban filling outdoor swimming pools, and business at hot tub stores in the city has gone cold.
“From the day the drought was declared, and the city council announced its restrictions on filling of hot tubs, it’s closed our doors,” Hot Spring Spas sales manager Chet Lockwood said.
The store is still open, but no one is coming in, and layoffs may not be far behind.
“We can’t see how we’re going to be able to survive through this,” Lockwood said.
San Jose’s city council sent a serious message about the drought, lumping 350-gallon spas in with 20,000 gallon swimming pools in the ban.
“If you’re building a pool today, you can fill it with recycled water or have your kids skateboard in it but you can’t fill it with potable drinking water,” Mayor Sam Liccardo said.
Lockwood says the spas can have health benefits, and can actually help residents save water.
“This is a very small amount of water that we can reuse, and reuse, and reuse,” Lockwood said
I hate this state’s government. I can’t wait to leave. If that idiot Jarhead Brown would stop wasting money on pipe dream bullet trains to Hell and spent it on desalination plants, this wouldn’t be necessary. But this is what he was hoping for, I’m sure. Turning the Golden State to the Lead State.
Hey dillweed, Jerry Brown wasn’t a Marine. That affectionate insult is only for us.
Jerry’s nick is “Moonbeam.” Apparently, you are not on the right beam, kiddo. Run away little bunny, run away quick...
PLEASE DON’T CALL THAT ASSHOLE A JARHEAD.
JARHEAD IS A NICKNAME FOR MARINES, NOT C#CKSUCKING COMMUNISTS!
Tough crowd.
How the heck do you procure “recycled” water to fill a pool? Do they mean graywater? (”Nice bubbly brown pool ya got there!”) Or are you supposed to fill it up peeing in it? I can’t even make sense out of that remark.
Maybe he meant “jughead”?
They’ve earned that insult, and will defend its honor ;)
I think that’s a very good guess.
Related:
10 Percent of California’s Water Goes to Almond Farming [alfalfa hay uses 15 percent]
May 20, 2014 (posted on FR March 20, 2015)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3270171/posts
Nation’s largest ocean desalination plant goes up near San Diego; Future of the California coast?
May 29, 2014
http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_25859513/nations-largest-ocean-desalination-plant-goes-up-near
California Is Turning Back Into A Desert And There Are No Contingency Plans
March 16, 2015
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3268346/posts
Different generation. ;)
Sorry. Believe me, I would never intentionally apply such a noble appellation to that idiot.
Then, of course this:
Fish or families? Comedian Paul Rodriguez on Hannity
June 19, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwhGkiPfPzo
Comedian Paul Rodriguez Sounds Off On Environmentalism
June 22, 2014
http://www.inquisitr.com/1313056/comedian-paul-rodriguez-sounds-off-on-environmentalism/
I had a dream that China built some islands just off California with nuke power plants and desalinization plants then sold the water for $2 per gallon and California dumped it all into the Sacramento river for the smelt.
Movie stars preach global warming, drought, greenie weenie, etc... They talk the talk, they do not walk the walk....
Like Obama’s golf courses! super green!
More people are to blame for not understanding the water issues....for the last 40-50 years..!!!
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