AND ... all these extra people need water, so you residents of many years and generations must be restricted in favor of the illegals.
Watch for these revenue generating rules to NEVER be repealed.
My, how the once-Golden State has fallen. These days, you are supposed to be proud of a dirty car and a brown lawn.
And they let millions of gallons of snow melt flow from the Sierra straight into the ocean every year to save the Delta Smelt, while the whole west side of the Central Valley becomes bone dry.
I wonder if the illegals will be exempt from these rules, just like all the other rules.
Do these state approved hose nozzles have a pistol grip?
California liberals are disappointed that Obama cannot “Make it Rain!”
http://www.portlandoregon.gov/Water/article/268758
There are always unintended consequences. In this case, the consequences must have been known -- they were just ignored or valued little, by the powers that be.
Judging mainly by the voting records of the state I’m convinced that a clear majority of California’s residents are worthless pieces of excrement.With that belief in mind I hope I live to see the day that the entire state dries up and blows away.
The biggest “water wasters” of all are those who want to divert all irrigation waters from the retaining dams in the Sierras to prevent the demise of the Delta Smelt minnow of the San Joaquin delta estuary. This excessive concern over what is actually an invasive species that was never there before recent times is just a further instance of emotion trumping good solid economics and common sense when it comes to shared use.
Before the Central Valley of California was converted to irrigated land, the spring melt on the Sierras was just a flash-flood that would inundate the wide flats of the valley a few weeks in the spring, and subside to near-desert conditions the remainder of the year. The ingenuity that tamed the cycles of flood and drought, and thus regulated the outflow into the estuary in the south end of the San Francisco bay, also changed the balance of the saline water to fresh water, which had changed very sharply over the seasons. Delta Smelt minnows could not tolerate that rapid change, and their numbers were confined to other parts of the bay, NOT originally in the delta.
The current drought in California is entirely man-made, and has little to do with the depth of the snow pack or the flagrant waste of available water. Restore the dams, and the drought conditions go away, while the aquifers remain well replenished by the regulated release of the stored waters.
Left in 1974, never looked back.
I swear it’s like we have spoiled 3rd graders running every level of govt these days.
All that water in Pacific Ocean, all that sunshine... solar-powered de-salination anyone??
But no restrictions on the illegal pot growers who steal the water for their plantations and destroy our forests.
I can see it now, the Water Resources Control Board SWAT team...want to bet on when it kicks down its first door and riddles the resident scofflaws?