Posted on 07/04/2024 2:00:23 PM PDT by KingofZion
After a decade that saw two major droughts, and with more dry times inevitable, California is imposing permanent water restrictions on cities and towns for the first time in state history.
The powerful State Water Resources Control Board on Wednesday approved a long-debated policy that will require hundreds of urban water suppliers to reduce the amount of water they provide over the next 15 years.
As soon as 2027, some suppliers will have to cut back deliveries upwards of 30%, which means finding ways for their customers to use less water — either by imposing restrictions, incentivizing savings by raising rates, or boosting efficiency by encouraging low-flow appliances. Suppliers can do whatever they want to tamp down water use, but if they don’t, they face state fines of up to $10,000 a day.
The mandated permanent reductions, meant to better prepare California for a drier future, are tailored specifically to communities and their individual needs. The cuts are based on a formula that weighs several factors, including the area’s past water consumption, climate and land use.
*** “Conservation is a critical part of California’s strategy to adapt to a hotter, drier future,” said Joaquin Esquivel, chair of the state water board, which worked with the Department of Water Resources to develop the regulation. “Our climate has changed. Our uses should match the hydrology that we’re now facing.”
*** Of the suppliers serving at least 10,000 people, the five with the largest required cuts are all in the San Joaquin Valley. These include the city of Atwater, Oildale Mutual Water Co., city of Kingsburg, West Kern Water District and Vaughn Water Co. The cuts for these suppliers range from 45% to 58%, compared with their recent use, by 2040.
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Stolen elections have consequences...
The billionaires that want to own California will not alter what they are doing to drive people out.
These are likely Republican areas that are subject to the water restrictions. The long term goal is to depopulate these areas and cause farms and ranches to be abandoned. Then the lands can be sold to developers, very possibly Chinese investors tied to the CCP. In other words, this is like the plot in the movie Chinatown, where developers cut off water to farmers in the San Fernando Valley. That movie was based on real life events.
Because you’ve ecologically destroyed your cities by letting countless MILLIONS of illegal immigrants in who, btw, consume water and obviously more than you can provide.
Fine them, punish them, regulate and tax them until they’re broke....
Meanwhile the Communist who destroyed the state welcome in millions of water consuming illegal aliens as they shower them with tax paid prizes and gifts.
Tioga pass road in Yosemite is still closed due to snow.
Probably won’t open for another week.
Stupid bureaucrats don’t know what the H they are doing.
Sending water to the ocean.
Newsom for President!
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Message to the American people: (Please read this aloud to the many illiterate ones)
If you want the disasters of woke California, then vote Dem nationally. If you do you are stooooopid.
How about restrictions to make sure our water is good.
The peasants will of course be allowed to petition their rulers for temporary grants of water.
All that snow pack, and they’ve got a water shortage.
Who said if Arabia went collectivist, they would run out of sand?
Idiots run the state. Where my cousin lives, they announced they will restrict water to previous usages six months before the restrictions took place. So what did everyone do? They ran so much water to keep their allotment higher than they would have otherwise had there been no restrictions.
And besides. When reservoirs are overflowing we gotta let all that water go to save some minnows.
I like living where you can have all the water you want for the cost of the electricity to pump it out of the ground.
No drought. No water shortage.
Just for control.
Ok, I'll stick my neck out there and ask.
This policy wouldn't fall under the recent USSC reversal of Chevron deference?
Plus the state government insists on tearing down existing dams while banning the construction of new ones and improvement of exiting dams.
My home is three miles from Lake Michigan, all the fresh water one can drink.
There is no water shorage after record storms this winter and reservoirs are 100% full.
so their INSANE government will create one
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