Posted on 07/06/2014 7:16:53 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
California's drought is creating a deluge of tattletales, after government officials encouraged residents to snitch on their neighbors for wasting water.
The state declared a drought emergency five months ago, but residents have only cut their water usage by about 5 percent, reports The New York Times, cutting back much less than the 20 percent Gov. Jerry Brown asked for in January.
And since people aren't heeding the warnings from the state, cities in the state are asking residents to report their neighbors for wasting water, and are finding that people are all too willing to tell on each other.
Sacramento has already received 6,000 reports this year, or 20 times more than last year, and proudly posted a comparative photo on Twitter showing its lawns turning from green to gold.
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We all know who the tattletales would be, don’t we? In other states in other times they wore red bandanas or green uniforms or smart brown outfits. Today, they might drive a Prius or sit in a chair reading ‘The Nation’ at your local coffee shop. They are the real pod people. Don’t look to the skies - look to your left.
You flushed twice. Didn’t you? :)
Dats wot you get for drinking 8 glasssses of woter a day.
Back to beer.
Nanny State PING!
don’t you hate those people that sneak out at night and water their lawns even thought their lawn is a weed(not the Smoking kind) patch
Reducing water usage is step one in the Kabuki Two-Step. When water usage drops off, rate will rise to compensate the utilities for their loss of income. Those that snitch will not be able to make the Cause-Effect linkage and blame it on the “greedy” utilities while the politicians sneak out the back door.
The nazis were suitably noted for this.
Haven’t you heard - no more cancer screenings for middle aged white folks. PSA tests, mammograms, pelvics, all soon to be history. Because the middle class has a longer life expectancy than drug using gang bangers in the hood, and that’s just racist. We need to even things out.
Dear leader’s puppets in the medical community have spoken.
“California Flooded With People Tattling on ‘Water Wasters’”
Turn these water wasters in:
“Pumping restrictions aimed at protecting Delta smelt have reduced deliveries to water agencies in the Central Valley, Southern California and San Francisco Bay Area”
http://www.acwa.com/news/delta/water-supplies-curtailed-once-again-protect-delta-smelt
They are flushing good water down the Sacramento River for a stupid bait fish.
If I lived there, I would compile a list of city employees, and especially elected officials.
The rest anyone can figure out.
Turn these water wasters in:
The California Department of Water Resources
I’ll bet some scammers could make a fortune by going into liberal neighborhoods, knocking on the doors of homes with green lawns, and offering to sell them “water credits”.
I say we turn in all the west L.A. libs.
Are you sure you’re on the right thread?
If the poop don’t go down, it needs another shove. :-)
The real outrage is that so many people willingly complied.
Can “tell us which one of your neighbors has a gun, reads the Bible, is acting strange”, be far behind?
The problem with America is there’s not enough Americans, if you get my meaning.
I have cut back to near minimum over the past few years.
No garden, water a few flower pots by hand.
Keep wind break / shade trees alive as necessity in Mojave Desert.
Now I am supposed to cut 20% more. Maybe I’ll help Gov. Brown
(get it: namesake=Brown) by saving my pee for his lawn.
Meanwhile, Agriculture is sucking our precious, limited aquifer for pistasios. They don’t care if the supply goes brackish; the trees love it, and they can buy up resulting distressed land for very cheap.
County doesn’t care. Ag business is GOOD, tax revenue is GOOD. (Decreasing land value hasn’t registered in their bird brain yet.)
Man, I couldn’t handle summer without my Slip ‘n Slide.
"There was enough water here for 13 families."
Agribusiness is also the major proponent of amnesty for illegal aliens.
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