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San Francisco Declares Water Emergency, 5% Surcharge on Users
Breitbart ^ | 11/24/2021 | Joel B Pollack

Posted on 11/24/2021 6:27:35 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission voted Tuesday to declare a water shortage emergency amid a crushing drought in the state that threatens water supplies throughout the region, slapping a 5% surcharge on water users in the city.

California is in the midst of one of the worst droughts in its history. The drought from 2011- 2017 was so intense that rainy seasons in 2017 and 2018 barely reversed the damage. Mountain snow in 2020 was not enough to fill the state’s reservoirs.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: declares; emergency; sasnfrancisco; water
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1 posted on 11/24/2021 6:27:35 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We pay less for water here in the high desert than we did when we lived in the SF Bay area.

Why do you suppose that is???


2 posted on 11/24/2021 6:33:11 AM PST by null and void (Newspapers, The Prints of Lies)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When you’re thirsty as hell, what’s another 5%?


3 posted on 11/24/2021 6:33:45 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m surprised that San Francisco has a water emergency, given all of the water the homeless are saving by not flushing...


4 posted on 11/24/2021 6:33:55 AM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

As long as the Delta Smelt is OK


5 posted on 11/24/2021 6:40:58 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Breech dozens of dams and refuse to build desalination plants and this is what you get.


6 posted on 11/24/2021 6:44:43 AM PST by LukeL
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What do they do with the money?


7 posted on 11/24/2021 6:49:09 AM PST by The Louiswu (Peace to you and may God Bless you all)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Do they still want to tear down the Hetch Hetchy dam? At one point San Franciscans voted for that. Liberal Idiots. But I repeat myself.


8 posted on 11/24/2021 6:51:49 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Gee, if only there was a large body of water adjacent to San Francisco.

Well golly: There is, but it would require desalinization plants. Though before they got to those, the city would first require destalinization.


9 posted on 11/24/2021 6:53:11 AM PST by Jay W
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who will save GAIA from all the BO this will cause???


10 posted on 11/24/2021 7:05:18 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Elvis is dead and Joe Biden doesn't feel so good himself.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Urban America has reached a critical density of lunatics. It is unlivable for decent, rational people. Let it rot.


11 posted on 11/24/2021 7:08:46 AM PST by allendale
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To: Jay W

EXCELLENT!


12 posted on 11/24/2021 7:10:19 AM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! There)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They have plenty of water, what with not flushing toilets because they don’t use them and all...


13 posted on 11/24/2021 7:11:40 AM PST by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: LukeL

Yup—the world’s largest ocean right next to the city and they can’t manage to get the salt out of it.

Any difference between lefties and Neanderthal Man are too slight to notice.


14 posted on 11/24/2021 7:14:16 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Simple solution - recycle sweat


15 posted on 11/24/2021 7:18:06 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: null and void

When my brother lived in the east bay his water bill was quadruple mine in Surprise,AZ.


16 posted on 11/24/2021 7:20:25 AM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: LukeL

BINGO


17 posted on 11/24/2021 7:31:26 AM PST by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Now, who didn’t see this coming?


18 posted on 11/24/2021 7:47:34 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Jay W

That was so clever, I laughed out loud!


19 posted on 11/24/2021 7:50:24 AM PST by Hildy (In an unforgiving world, only the shameless survive.)
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To: null and void

These idiot politicians are too stupid to be proactive and build a desalination plant back in 2019. All they know is tax and spend.


20 posted on 11/24/2021 7:55:55 AM PST by DownInFlames
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