Posted on 01/18/2020 8:17:02 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
Price Controls, Water Controls
Living in Italy, expat Americans were shocked to learn that they couldn’t drive their cars into Verona on certain days if their licenses ended in odd numbers and on other days if their licenses ended in even numbers. Caught driving on the wrong day, the penalty was stiff. It was the bureaucrats’ way of dealing with pollution that affected air quality, soot deposits on marble statues, and buildings in town.
In Modesto, California, the city deals with water shortages, whether real or imagined, by giving citations and fines to odd-numbered addresses that water lawns on Tuesdays when only even-numbered addresses can use sprinkler systems.
“Whisky’s for drinking. Water’s for fighting over.”
Water is a tool for the Democrats to get their way.
Jimmah Carter’s brain lives on?
This woman has ignorantly conflated real resource issues with her own emotional reaction to communism.
Water in CA is a limited resource and always has been. It’ll likely continue to be.
And extant water rights must be enforced by the courts and adhered by all distributors/districts.
A concept she has never been exposed to.
Nevada Revised Stautes at https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-534.html changed the water well/rights issue in the most recent legislative session. Can’t recall all of the sordid details but a lot of ranchers are not happy. Usage and monitoring which hadn’t been in play before now is. But since the dems control the state assembly with a super majority and are just one seat short of a super in the senate and steve sissypants as gov...................... Let’s just say the chance of NV going back to red are pretty dang slim.
OK, it’s a given that water is a limited CA resource.
My memory is telling me where I’ve read that the sandbox regions of the Middle East is also water deprived. They cured the problem with massive water treatment units that make sea water usable. My memory also is telling me that this process was offered to CA, but it was rejected. Am I correct?
If I am then CA is using water as a political tool much the same way as with big oil, fracking, coal, spotted owls, global warming, big pharma, health care, gun rights, sugar, plastic straws, old fashioned light bulbs - the list is endless.
In Modesto, California, the city deals with water shortages, whether real or imagined, by giving citations and fines to odd-numbered addresses that water lawns on Tuesdays when only even-numbered addresses can use sprinkler systems.
During the big 1970’s drought, Sacramento had zero water meters for individual homes.
So the idiots in charge came up with this same idiot action.
Those living on our side of our cul de sac could water only on odd days and the other side on the even days.
In CA you have beautiful different colored lava rocks available for landscaping.
Fireproof, insect proof, doesn't require watering or mowing.
The kind of regulation enforced in this story will be automatic once you have "self driving" cars.
80% of the rainfall in CA is in the north and 80% of the usage is in the south.
No matter how they handle it, that’s gonna create tension.
A gravel yard still needs maintenance....and it turns into a public toilet for the neighborhood feline population
This is a redux of the pathetic democrat solution for achieving “oil independence” during barbara boxer’s heyday. Don’t produce it but don’t use it either. Her intransigence against additional storage plans convinced me she was on the Middle East payroll to keep the money flowing in their direction. Now it’s water; same scam, different corruptocrats.
“Am I correct?”
I’m unsure but nobody has to offer known, routine technology.
I think the issue has always been cost. Desalination requires substantial energy input.
Of course a combined nuke plant/desalination plant would be as efficient as anyone could hope for and it could provide drinking water to the southland. And other areas on the coast which need it.
Policy Proposal
Pay taxes on Odd numbered decades
Avoid taxes on Even numbered decades
Fraudulant majorities are created from racist gerrymandering. Democrats have no honest majorities.
None.
Why the red Countryside tolerates the fraud is a mystery.
“Water in CA is a limited resource and always has been.”
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Likewise in parts of Texas.
It’s like she doesn’t have a good solid grasp of survival.
While a green lawn is nice it’s not going to keep you alive in the long run.
I’m for the Northeast and it was a shock to not have green outside my house. LOL
My beloved made the decision years ago when the water shortage it our area. He said the water is too important to put on the yard only to evaporate because of the temperatures.
Am I used to Brown, Brown, Weeds, and Brown seasons? No. Do I understand giving up watering the yard? Sure.
Do I want to see green bad enough to go back up North? NO.
LOL
It can take 18” of water per square foot to water lawns depending on humidity / temp stats.
1 cubic ft = 7.48 gallons x 18” = 11.25 gallon of water to water 1 square foot of lawn.
Golfers beware
I’m thinking whoever has the most acreage voting for them wins. No? :-)
To quote the kids these days... "I can't even"...
They just passed similar laws here in Washington state. Prior to the law, a homeowner was allowed 5,000 gallons/day without a water right and all homes before the law took effect are exempt from it. After law, any new private wells are required to be metered. They haven’t set any rates yet but I figure their trying to establish an average daily water use per person. Once they have enough data then they’ll set rates.
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