LA residents told to cut showers as drought deepens

Reuters ^ | 06 Jun 2007

[peggybac]

LOL. You funny.

[BurbankKarl]

What Angelenos try to flush down the toilet...

[BurbankKarl]

I thought you drank bottled water?

[Aquafornia]

Actually the Sierra snowpack is only 27% of normal this year. Check it out here at: May 2007 Snow Survey We are in a drought, statewide, whether anyone wants to call it that or not. The Colorado River Basin is in the midst of one of the worst droughts ever. The Sierra snowpack is little over 1/4th of normal. Get ready to conserve. Desalination is not the answer. For one thing, it takes an enormous amount of electricity to produce a little bit of water. Global warming concerns aside, is there even enough electrical capacity to power the plants? Brown outs and rolling electical outages are not that far in the past. The other part of the desal equation - the brine - is a huge issue. Plus the fact that desalinated water costs at least twice as much as other sources. Maybe Southern Californians need to rethink those grass lawns and start living in the desert that Southern California truly is.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Yes. But I sure as heck don’t SHOWER in it!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Now, now. If we just put trash barrels out there.......

[BurbankKarl]

I remember the 70s, and all those brown lawns.

[BurbankKarl]

We Clean Your Toilets!

[balch3]

If they had gone through with plans to dam the Grand Canyon in the sixties, they wouldn’t be having this problem. Instead they listened to the Environmental whackos and this is what happens.

[Moonmad27]

Mayor Viva La Raza sure does seem to have a fixation on toilets, doesn’t he?

[colorado tanker]

I will remind everyone in LA that is a DWP customer the last time their was a drought they told people to cut back on their usage. Only to find out they did it so well they did not make the money they projected that year so they RAISED their water bill rates to cover their (obedient) budget short fall.

We saw the same thing here, during our drought. Raise rates to encourage conservation. People are conserving water? Oh, that reduces revenue. Must raise rates again! Ain't government grand?!

[mirkwood]

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Nice terrorist target.

[bannie]

There was enough water there to make it worth the while of LA to build a pipeline of hundreds of miles.

My great-aunt’s yard turned from a garden to a ROCK GARDEN.

[bannie]

[bannie]

"...of LA..." (errata)

"...FOR LA..."

[Nea Wood]

I agree with Terry Anderson. Why should I scrimp and save, conserve and suffer and do without water or anything else, just so some illegal alien can have my share? Terry purposely leaves his garden hose running all day long, and I don’t blame him.

[listenhillary]

Tin cans and newpapers take a lot of water to flush?

Puzzled me also.

[dragnet2]

There was enough water there to make it worth the while of LA to build a pipeline of hundreds of miles.

Yes, and the water still flows through it. However, I agree things are dry, lack of rain in the south etc.

If I were governor of the state, I would immediately stop all development, all building, no more homes, no nothing, period, until solutions for problems like water are solved. In addition, I would have the state national guard start rounding up the millions of illegal aliens that are illegally using much of these resources, and give them a swift boot.

[bannie]

That’s a good start.