Los Angeles County collects 33 billion gallons of rainwater in recent storms

KTLA ^ | Jan 16, 2023 | Travis Schlepp

[BenLurkin]

The Los Angeles County Public Works Department announced Monday that more than 33 billion gallons of stormwater have been captured in the early months of the California winter storm season.

It will be used as drinking water and is enough to supply 816,000 people with enough water for an entire year, according to Los Angeles County Public Works Director Mark Pestrella.

[Fungi]

Where was it captured?

[Apparatchik]

Exactly. Racist.

They should dump it all.

[Fungi]

Not exactly the answer I had in mind, but thank you for your erudite response.

[Jim Robinson]

33 billion barrels of beer on the wall, 33 billion barrels of beer.

Take one down, pass it around…

[BobL]

“It will be used as drinking water and is enough to supply 816,000 people with enough water for an entire year”

If they only drink the water, perhaps 816,000, but if you go by average household usage, closer to 10,000 homes. So better than nothing...

[BenLurkin]

Pretty sure they are referring to tap-water when they say drinking water.

On the other hand 816,000 is only about ten percent of the population. Maybe less.

[Track9]

That’s not enough to clean the streets of San Fransisco.

[ConservativeInPA]

Did the rain water mix with the excrement on the street?

[dragnet2]

33 billion? What about the trillions of gallons draining out to the ocean?

[BenLurkin]

Someday LA will get smart and try to catch that — but not while the Democrat Party is in charge.

[BobL]

Come to think of it, I think that I flipped the decimal point...should be closer to 1 million homes for one year, which is a decent amount.

[rktman]

When will it be released into the ocean to lower the salinity levels?

[metmom]

Until they dump it into the ocean.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Lake Mead is up a bit and will improve more as the snow melts in Colorado come Spring/Summer. Huge amounts of rain and snow all over the place. GloBull Warming!

[Jyotishi]

Hollywood needs a wash.

[Old Yeller]

Or the pools in Beverly Hills and Malibu.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I thought the RATS made captured rainwater taxable. Whiskey, Tango...

[exPBRrat]

Good to hear of that.

[Cobra64]

Why? California is know for flushing fresh rainwater out into the Pacific Ocean. I guess because the ocean is too salty which is racist.