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California Flooded With People Tattling on 'Water Wasters'
Newsmax.com ^ | July 5, 2014 | Sandy Fitzgerald

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: conservation; drought; nannystate; sacramento; snitches; tattletales; water
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To: a fool in paradise

lol


61 posted on 07/07/2014 9:21:32 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Dacula
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.

62 posted on 07/07/2014 9:25:11 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (ObamaCare IS Medicaid: They'll pull a sheet over your head and send you the bill.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

63 posted on 07/07/2014 9:27:10 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels"-- Tom Waits)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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.

64 posted on 07/15/2014 12:44:11 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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.


65 posted on 07/15/2014 12:49:04 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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