Posted on 01/29/2022 4:26:24 PM PST by grundle
Extreme drought in California is forcing drastic measures on the 200,000 residents in Marin County. They have been told to cut their water usage to just 55 gallons a day.
A 10-minute shower uses about 25 gallons. A load of laundry uses 40 gallons of water. A single sprinkler head can spray out 15 gallons per minute.
The new restrictions mean no refilling swimming pools or fountains. Residents can't wash their car in their driveways, and outdoor irrigation is prohibited.
"It's frightening," Fairfax Mayor Stephanie Hellman said of the drought.
John Ware and his wife, Margaret, moved to Marin County because of the lush landscape.
"There's no irrigation until June," Ware said. "We got a third of an acre of mature trees and plants and flowers and I don't want to lose them."
The couple just installed two 1,000-gallon tanks to store rainwater.
Many homeowners are finding almost 80% of their drinking water goes to irrigation, laundry and toilets.
"That's just ridiculous that we're using — think about it — fresh water to flush toilets," said Paul Mann, who installs systems to capture and recycle water for outdoors. It comes with an app that sends an alert when residents use too much.
"Imagine if everyone did this," Mann said. "We would have true sustainability despite the crisis that we're in with climate."
The biggest water users in Marin County face fines of more than $500 on top of their regular bill. If there is no rain the next few months, the local reservoirs could be unusable by summer.
I love it when the Bolsheviks say: “Here’s what that means.”
That’s your message. Flee California.
My washer does not use 40 gallons a load.
Did they actually say 15? Or 1.5? If 15, that's completely erroneous.
Yes - keep letting millions upon millions of illegal immigrants in and then wonder why you don’t have enough water or can’t provide enough power…
I’d like to see the washer that uses 40 gallons for a load.
The Romans over 2,000 years ago were able to engineer ways to bring water from the mountains to Rome, a city of over one million people.
There is knowledge and technology that would solve California’s water problem, if they wanted to solve it.
But for some reason the socialist fail to provide the citizens with this basic need.
When those illegals should have been deported.
Maybe these Godless bastard politicians could call prayer for rain. Couldn’t hoit.
If only there was a large body of water to their west from which to draw from.
A simple solution. Millions of illegals in CA using water (probably more than the suggested 55 gallons). Send them backt to where they came from.
The stinky homeless living in the urban areas should be able to offset those that do use water.
I’m laughing at the thought of someone like Leonardo DiCaprio or equivalent “important person” actually using just 55 gallons a day. You know that ain’t happening. These restrictions are for the little people.
They have never heard of desalinization of ocean water?
for the price of a bullet train we could have solved it once and for all
“I’d like to see the washer that uses 40 gallons for a load.”
Actually when set on full load that is about right. 38-40 a load.
Yep. The problem with this “water shortage” CA is talking about is those of you outside the big cities have to conserve but in the cities, we use as much as we want because we are the ones hogging all your water.
“Forget about it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.”
It’s not like the Peoples Republic of California hasn’t seen this coming - for many years. It’s like the steamroller scene in Austin Powers. I guess They have bigger priorities, like providing benefits for illegals, drivers licenses for illegals, voting rights for illegals, etc.
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