The Dune Fremen Stillsuit
(Worm thumper and Maker hooks optional)
There is rain in much of California, but only part of the year. It will be interesting to see the workarounds that people develop to harvest some of their water, perhaps hidden rooftop drainage diversion systems into big tanks, well-hidden in garages, for example?
California, reverting to its original state of dust and dry.
If all Flush Toilets in every Government Building and installed port-a-potties out front, we could easily save 400,000 acre feet of water at little to no cost.
Rationing of everything is a hallmark of totalitarian government. Rationing equals control.
This is because *anything desirable* in abundance can be used as an alternative form of currency, and decentralizes power and choices.
So, they continually push for artificial shortages of things in abundance. If they cannot create real shortages, they create imaginary ones.
A good example of this is fresh water. I had a teacher a long time ago who pushed “water conservation” on their students. The propaganda campaign was sold as “to raise awareness”. But a quick search showed that almost all the fresh water in the state was used for mining, agriculture, and industry. Residential use was a tiny fraction of that.
So why was the campaign directed *solely* at water conservation at home? “To raise awareness”.
Shortly thereafter, the mining industry in the state decided to recycle their water instead of using fresh water. This *increased* the available fresh water in the state by 1/3rd.
So I asked the teacher whether the conservation campaign would end, and he said “no”. Why?, “Because it is vital to raise public awareness!”, he said.
This taught me the important lesson that the catchphrase “Raising Public Awareness”, in various forms, is a scam, and that those who use it want you to surrender freedom for slavery.
California has no shortage of water. Instead, while complaining of drought, they *waste* vast amounts of water, most of which is allowed or encouraged to run off to the sea. It’s artificial shortage. Were they to capture a fraction of that amount they would have great abundance.
But they won’t, because that would take away their petty control over their citizens.
“Forget it, Jake!”
In order to achieve Equity, CA needs to lower the standard of living of their residents to at least the level of Mexico!
Mexico is lot closer to the world average.
Great goal! They are working hard on it!
"Passed and signed by Governor Newsom in 2022, SB 1147 requires California’s water agencies to limit residential indoor water use to 47 gallons per person per day starting in 2025 and 42 gallons in 2030."
Do these water restrictions apply to thirsty, Democratic elite open border policy illegal immigrants?
Also, I have yet to hear what happened to the billions of dollars that California taxpayers approved of for expanding water storage about ten years ago, water storage presumably never expanded.
Californians approved billions for new water storage. Why hasn’t it gotten built? (Non-FR; 1.16.23)
Also, is the following thread an example of California (intentional?) water (mis)management?
ENGINEERED FAMINE: California diverting water flows into the ocean, depriving rice farmers of necessary irrigation to grow food (5.31.22)
Census records have number in household.
That’s pretty much enough for drinking, washing, limited use of toilet and occasional light shower. No swimming pools, no watering gardens, etc.
Totally crazy!
I grew up in SoCal in the early 50s. I can still remember my parents and I attending a talk at the school I attended. The speaker urged everyone to bathe in no more than a couple of inches of water. As an eight-year-old, I was shocked at the idea of not having enough water for all my fleet to sail in. So they’ve been singing this same song for well more than half a century.
Back then, there was no way to enforce such a thing, but we’ve ‘progressed’ so far...