Posted on 04/05/2015 3:36:45 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
We have tiered water rates for a long time where I live. The amount of water you are allowed to use without paying on a higher tier is based on the number for bedrooms in the house. You cal also request more water based on the number of people in the house. I saw the drought building two years ago and did not cut water use because I knew if they did ration it would a % cut from a previous year.
Jerry has brown water on the brain
There’s already a perfectly workable rationing system. It’s called “the free market”.
Filthy hippies being filthy hippies.
What's really sad is that Jello Biafra has repudiated Kalifornia Uber Alles and now he says Gerry Brown is great guy!
F*n sellout!
Dear Jerry,
your political career was enabled by your Dad’s reputation. As California’s pervious governor... your Dad built highways (you know, the long, linear things you ordered Halted in Mid-constrution!)...... your Dad built university and college campuses (you know, where all the anti-American and anti-Christian and anti-Jew IslamoNazis are scaring people away now under your administation)...... your Dad built water storage resevoirs (you know, water... the wet squishy stuff California’s running out of now)..........
Dear Jerry, what have you built? (Answer: nothing, though he wants to piss several Billion dineros away on an insane choochoo train to nowhere)
Dear Jerry, how about getting Califonia back into business again.......instead of chasing business away to Texas and China
You can do it, you’re a very smart fellow. Just look up how your Dad governed....
“If there was a valve with an off switch”
A solenoid valve like in a dish washer or washing machine would work. For that matter, if you had two valves you could pulse width modulate them so you could adjust the temperature digitally. Set the temperature only once, and it would always be correct.
Oh! I’ve plumbed a few showers like that in Cleveland suburbs. They’re wonderful, if you have the water, which we do. But, again, I’m a cheapskate!
In the interim I had another idea....a shower valve with a manual thermostat, that automatically mixes the water to the correct desired temperature setting. Then you can just turn one valve on and off at will—while keeping the water temp consistent.
**”A shower water valve with a pushbutton on/off switch. I have no problem with shutting the water off whilst soaping up and then turning it on again to rinse (this was required for showers when I was on a submarine)...except that it sucks having to readjust the cold and hot water to get the temp right when turning the water back on—to the point where I don’t turn the water off.”**
That is a common $5.00 and $20.00 item, and is often free.
https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&es_sm=93&biw=1440&bih=813&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=shower+head+with+flow+button+button&oq=shower+head+with+flow+button+button&gs_l=img.3...31847.38541.0.38829.24.23.0.0.0.5.551.3402.2-3j3j1j2.9.0.msedr...0...1c.1.64.img..23.1.550.edfTO8AE-Qg
And MWPD that wasted thousands of gallons dumping them to repair a leaking reservoir or the ones that wanted to dump a whole reservoir because a kid peed in it or the city of L.A. that has not had a plan to replace hundred year old mains that are rupturing and wasting thousands of gallons of water? What about them moonbeam? We waste all sorts of water, yes reclaimed, on golf courses when the water should be pumped back into the aquifers. Brown needs to be flushed down, fine people for showers buts waste billions on a bullet train!
Thanks....hadn’t seen those before. Will have to go get one...
I still like my thermostat idea though...then you don’t have to play with the valves yourself, wasting water in the process.
I install that stuff, and over sized water pipes, and $3,000.00 rainfall shower heads for customers, but my own water usage varies between about 30 and 38 gallons a day.
If I ever got serious about reducing it, I definitely could.
The tech exists it is just expensive on a per gallon basis. The new graphene RO membrane will make it economical. Commercial use is still a ways off. Cal. is in a dire situation that the emergency use of RO could have helped. But there are no RO plants to use. You are correct, it isn’t just the Govorner’s fault. The greenies don’t want RO units built because they might hurt the fish. And the dim’s, well they don’t want to offend the greenies so they keep getting greenie votes. The greenies may not be able to live with that decision much longer. Happy Easter FReeper.
Bull dozers, D-8 and D-9’s. Dig in drainage areas. Create reservoirs alll over the state. Desalinate. BUT!!!!!!that might piss off nature worshipers. This all could have been avoided if the democrats in charge with some reasonable planning.
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