California Flooded With People Tattling on 'Water Wasters'

Newsmax.com ^ | July 5, 2014 | Sandy Fitzgerald

[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.

[GeronL]

lol

[Carry_Okie]

When we were in our drought here in Georgia they used to us. If it is yellow,let it mellow and if it is brown flush it down.

That started in Berkeley during the three-year drought of the late 1970s.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

[TexasFreeper2009]

Illegal aliens in the US drink the equivalent of Lake Tahoe every year.

Our resources are finite, we either decide to save them for our children or let third world invaders use them up.

[MrB]

So...

what happens when “universal health care” becomes the law of the land,

and eating a cheeseburger is propagandized as “robbing children of their healthcare”...

Liberals pine for such a society.