Posted on 11/04/2009 5:28:25 AM PST by capecodder
In a case that could have a major impact on water use in Massachusetts, the attorney general’s office argued before the state’s highest court yesterday that the Department of Environmental Protection can impose limits on the amount of water municipalities draw from aquifers, rivers, and lakes....
The case, which the Supreme Judicial Court did not immediately rule on, stems from a state policy adopted in 2007 that allows the department to limit residential water use to 65 gallons a day per person for basins at risk of drought and 80 gallons a day per person for those with less risk. The policy limited the amount of “unaccounted for’’ water municipalities could claim and required they develop plans to reduce water use in the summer, when use increases....
“The question before the [Supreme Judicial Court] is vitally important for the Commonwealth,’’ Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Ian Bowles said in a statement after the hearing. “We simply cannot preserve our precious water resources for human health, habitat protection, and economic growth if the state is unable to attach reasonable conservation requirements to the 80 percent of water withdrawn by municipalities by right.’’
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Good grief! Talk to the people in Venezuela who are living with both water and electricity shortages these days.
drill baby drill
Coming soon to a state near you under the Socialist/Marxists now in power.
What's the matter? Didn't the 1.5 gallon toilet flushes, restricted water flow shower heads and faucets control the people enough for them?
on a planet where 2/3s of it’s SURFACE area is water, it takes some serious gonads to claim a shortage.. especially from a coastal state.
seriously, wth is wrong with these people? this is the 21st century... use your brains instead of your genital for once and start piping in the water from offshore desalination plants. hell, i’ve seen US naval ships do this for mexican towns, why not here in the US?
was that so difficult?
sten: “seriously, wth is wrong with these people?”
Umm... This is Massachusetts. The defining characteristic of Mass. politicians and bureaucrats is thirst for power — especially power over other peoples’ lives.
Been there,
Pd
Lets place the blame where it really belongs, the electorate. Corrupt pols will be corrupt. Thats not hard to figure out exc for the MA electorate. They’re cosmically stupid.
Yeah, and they are passing laws in congress that they have the right to the water running on and under the ground, on individual citizens property. This is unconstitutional.
Now Warren Buffett has a bought a railway sytstem that ships food, coal etc.
I sure hope people have been stocking up.
Not all the blame. When congress attaches bills to say a bill that funds the troops.
If other congresspersons object, they are accused of not supporting the troops.
Pelosi did it to the former President at every turn. In fact actually denying funding the troops unless the president would sign the extra crap Pelosi had put in it.
So once again, just as in CA, a state that sets near an ocean refuses to build desalinization plants to solve the problem. Nuke plants, set in the ocean itself, would solve the nations, if not the worlds, problems with fresh water. The greenies are going to kill us all if we do not, once and for all, put our foot down to the eco nonsense.
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