Posted on 04/27/2015 6:15:32 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Alysia Thomas, a stay-at-home mother in this working-class city, tells her children to skip a bath on days when they do not play outside; that holds down the water bill. Lillian Barrera, a housekeeper who travels 25 miles to clean homes in Beverly Hills, serves dinner to her family on paper plates for much the same reason. In the fourth year of a severe drought, conservation is a fine thing, but in this Southern California community, saving water means saving money.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
The daily water consumption rate was 572.4 gallons per person in Cowan Heights from July through September 2014, the hot and dry summer months California used to calculate community-by-community water rationing orders; it was 63.6 gallons per person in Compton during that same period.
So use the smaller number of 63.6 gallons per day per person. Now multiply that by 5 million illegal aliens.
“Black lawns matter”
ROFL I love it! You need to make tee shirts!
So the NYT (which originated the article) seems to be angling for charging people for water based on how wealthy they are. And in lunatic asylum California, it might just happen. The only good news is that most of the wealthy in California are liberals so this is just a bunch of rich libs being hoisted on their own petards.
Imagine if there were no limousine moonbats. That probably would immediately deal with many issues, including this one, facing California. Visions of ones like John Wayne, James Stewart, Dinah Shore, Ginger Rogers, Betty Grable, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, and other Hollywood royalty of the day were Republicans, sigh.
There will be much fun in plastering pictures of left leaning celebrities houses and their green lawns versus the third world poverty of the democratic party’s base.
I don’t know whether those numbers are actually relevant as regards individuals. Do they include industrial water use? Not much industry in Compton...
Many of us Californians did our part last year to conserve water including being satisfied with brown lawns. The SJ Water company responded by raising water rates because of “lower demand.” Many of the limousine liberals in my neighborhood still insist on lush green lawns. That is a major part of the friction right now.
You have people on here saying that the illegal aliens aren’t using “that much” water and I say you don’t really know how many of them are in your state. When the feds provide numbers on them they are always way underestimated. Don’t believe me? I heard it straight from the mouth of one of the former top tier ICE supervisor who managed operations in AZ, CA, NM, and TX in a meeting last year. He said that there was 1200 miles of border and that only 10 % of that was covered or fenced (often poorly with barb wire only) and that they really have no idea of how many illegals have entered the U.S. but that you better multiply what they say it is by a faor of 3 to 5 times. I suspect many of the naysayers might be of similar heritage but I get that...
Wait a minute here. 572 gallons per person? How the hell can one person use that much water?
The wife and I live here in AZ and have our water delivered. The last delivery was April 4th and we have a 2300 gallon tank. Its still half full. And I get myself in the tub once a day...or about 10 gallons a day.
How is that liberal state going? Need more red tape!
Liberal Fools in downtown Sacramento created this mess. Give credit where credit is due.
Guaranteed Governor Brown’s lawn will stay green.
Moonbeam the hypocrite.
I just hope the delta smelt is doing OK! Oh, and it sure was a good thing that southern Cal released 4 billion gallons of water into the ocean last year to save 6 (yes SIX) steelhead trout!
Dear kookifornians, enjoy your “Brave New World!” You voted for it, now you can enjoy it! Living with less is the liberal way!
Lead by Jerry The Fairy Brown
Aren’t they angling to charge more after a certain level of water usage?
In other words, everyone pays the same?
They work at it. They spend fortunes to have contractors run larger water pipes and larger gas meters for heating water, they take showers with $4,000 over head shower heads and multiple side jets.
It is interesting to see the ways they figure out how to waste things, and then it is interesting to talk to them about their politics and almost uniformly liberal environmental positions (I'm speaking of Southern California).
Last week, I saw an appropriate Bumper Sticker that said: “if it’s Brown, flush it.”
I would assume that the 572 gallons per day includes the entire water district, that also contains many farmers using water for crops.
“Last week, I saw an appropriate Bumper Sticker that said: “if it’s Brown, flush it.””
Those are “holdovers” from the 1977 drought. Brown was governor back then too. We have given this a$$hole FOUR TERMS! Just incredibly stupid people here, and let’s not blame it on the illegals, because back in 1977 we didn’t have enough of them to vote for him.
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