Posted on 05/09/2016 1:15:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Gov. Jerry Brown is ordering California to permanently follow some conservation measures taken during the state's drought.
Brown's order on Monday came as water officials consider whether to ease a 20 percent conservation order for cities and towns. The order does not set a mandatory percentage for saving water.
The latest call for changes came after El Nino storms left a healthy snowpack and brimming water reservoirs in Northern California.
Brown's executive order requires cities and towns to continue monthly reporting of water use. In addition, bans on overwatering lawns will become lasting.
Brown's executive order also requires better drought planning from cities and farmers.
The state is also required to prepare emergency water restrictions for 2017 in case the five-year drought persists.
Officials say Californians have saved a year's worth of water for 6.5 million residents since Brown imposed the conservation mandate.
California last year marked its driest four-year stretch in history.
The winter El Nino storms brought near-normal snow and rainfall to Northern California, filling major reservoirs. The storms largely missed Southern California, however, and overall nearly 90 percent of the state remains in drought.
The easing drought has prompted many water districts to say they want to set their own conservation targets. Others say the state should completely drop the drought emergency.
Officials, however, say the bruising drought has not ended, and nobody knows how much rain and snow will fall next winter.
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Hey, I live in East Texas and for the life of me I can’t understand why we don’t have water facilities on the lakes, reservoirs for use vs all our water out here is ground water.
If the locals drew water from Lake Conroe and Lake Livingston we could take over all of California’s fruit and veggie business.
These ranches could be easily tilled and with ampull sunshine and water it could easily be done.
The guy across the way of one of my properties bought 16 acres during the drought. It’s at the bottom of a hill. He dug a 20 foot pond about 75 by 200 during the drought and now it is always 100% full and runs off where it always used to like usual. I repeat it is always full.
The ranch could just as easily grow California crops since almost all the trees are gone and it’s used for grazing cows, horses or harvesting hay.
I am so happy 50 years or so ago Texans had the foresight to build all these man made lakes. As a matter of fact I wish we would build more.
If you live in Texas you know when it rain it really really rains rains and pours.
Especially with all the flooding we’ve had this year, I wish we could build huge retention ponds, reservoirs or lakes and make better use of all that water when it does blast us. Sure it won’t stop a lot of flooding when it happens but it would be nice to safe this natural resource if we can.
What about the almond growers? Are they going to be restricted on their water use? No way they will be.
I have my own well and my own mountain drainage; FU#K BROWN.
IF IT’S BROWN, FLUSH IT DOWN.
And the soldiers bonuses weren’t paid!
Funny you wrote that, I was just telling my friend, in Muzzy land they don’t have our bathroom facilities and more adapt to go out back dig a hole like a cat and poop.
In Europe they’re seriously having a problem with these savages defecating anywhere. It’s true google it
I hope not. I like almonds.
That is a great idea-where you are, the temperatures are mild enough to grow a lot of the Cali stuff-I don’t know if people in Cali have a lot of stock ponds, but everyone who has horses or livestock of any kind here has one to store the runoff from higher areas of their property when the monsoon season comes..
I live in the hill country-it is too cold in the winter here for most Cali crops. It has always been the way of things to utilize the rivers and streams by damming them-no snail darter nonsense-and using the water for human and crop use-but it is only in the last 15-20 years that the water conservation people really brought the whip down on SA and cities like that. Before then, when people in SA were told to quit filling pools, planting St Augustine and elephant ears, a lot of people demanded that the city go and take all the water needed from the reservoirs in the hill country-just go commandeer it-we all got quite a laugh out of that-I’d almost have liked to see them try.
After awhile, they realized they were going to have to build more collection and storage reservoirs their own-now they are crying because they will have to pay to build them-they are never happy...
Not many big cities even allow gray water use-from kitchen, shower and washer-to water gardens, plants and lawns, much less encourage it. They aren’t big on rainwater capture, either-both have been what is done out here forever-so much for utilizing available resources...
When all the ‘beautiful people’s’ yards and estates turn brown, then I’ll take notice.
What most people do not realize is that LA was basically a desert before the Los Angeles Aqueduct system was built. and now with the huge population in the area there is no way to sustain that system without doing something different. L.A. is battling a unwinnable war. Mother Nature will win this one eventually.
They’re still going to blow up Hetch Hetchy, right?
Morons.
That is true but you need to build huge retention ponds to grab and KEEP the water when it comes.
I thought Californians were educated?
But that doesn't figure into every possible issue. Not getting enough rain for several years is not an illegal immigration problem.
haha, NO permanent drought, you bean-brain! It’s semi-arid here, and sometimes it rains and sometimes it does NOT. Shouldn’t have gotten rid of the dams that held water for the dry years, you bean-brains.
Me too.
They are into destroying dams here in California, to let the water run FREE. And saving smelt in the Delta - I think they saved 2 this year - by recycling the water that used to be used for HUMANS into the sea, so the smelt can be cozy. Just IDIOTS up in Sacto. We had plenty of water, always have, with conservation. But no! Smelt first, humans get what’s left. They’ve destroyed the orchards and farms to save the smelt. (Don’t get me started).
Oh Tenacious, I so agree. You cannot fix stupid. Destroy the dams? Save the smelt? Destroy the farms? Where’s the logic in that? Oh, I remember - logic is not part of the Value System. Just dream-on is. / rolling eyes in So Cal. Oh, and cannot elect a Republican to save your soul here either. Let’s see what Trump can do.
Complete idiot. He needs to start sending illegals home to reduce water usage.
San Diego is lightyears ahead with desal. Must have taken a lot of courage to go forward with Common Sense.
Gov. Moonbeam is a true Alinskyite.
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