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.
Perhaps with a pre-wash, wash, and double rinse? I think mine would if that involves four different filling and empty cycles—it might even do that on three.
“The couple just installed two 1,000-gallon tanks to store rainwater”.
I’m not sure but that might be illegal in Calif.
Illegals don’t take showers so they are ok
and dumping potable water into the bay for some sort of invasive species of bait fish.
10 minutes for a shower??
The Romans would build desalination plants, if they were in change of California today. Interesting enough, California's climate is Mediterranean, similar to Italy.
It's not rocket science, we have the technology and the economic resources to do so. We simply lack the political will to do so.
“The couple just installed two 1,000-gallon tanks to store rainwater.”
They better be only collecting rainwater from their roof. Otherwise they are breaking the law. And they better not be using it for irrigation or landscaping. That’s also a big no-no.
See my post #28 above.
“The couple just installed two 1,000-gallon tanks to store rainwater”
I live on catchment and have 34,000 gallons of storage.
Pretty wimpy to only have 2,000 gallons, but then again there is probably some CA law against storing water without the state’s permissions.
You’re right.
“..There is knowledge and technology that would solve California’s water problem, if they wanted to solve it....”
Uh...well...that would take a modicum of intelligence.
That’s something the communists tend to be light in the loafers on.
They’ve heard of it.
Israel even offered to help using their technology to keep the costs lower. California told’em to shove off because Israel is an evil fascist nation oppressing the peace loving Fakestinians.
Sacramento doesn’t want a solution.
A solution would mean a loss of control for the demoncrats. Can’t have that.
It’s NOT a drought! CA has redirected the Sierra mountain runoff to go into the SF bay. They could have plenty of water, they choose not to.
I grew up in SoCal in the 50s. I can remember my parents going to some sort of meeting and a man basically said we should take baths in something like 3 inches of water in the tub. My seven-year-old self thought that absurd. How would I float my fleet of ships in only 3 inches of water?
Yes, you’re correct.
Wait till it hits most of the whole state.
Yep, tear more dams out and keep running water to the waste fish.
Poop and pee in the front yard or out your high rise window.
check out the storm water collection caverns that Tokyo uses for heavy storm water collection. same can be used here
I think Lex Luthor had a good idea in that 1978 Superman movie.
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