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Smart Meters: Enforcement Of Mandatory Water Restrictions Is Only Just The Beginning
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
Smart meters are now being used by authorities to crack down on “water wasters” in the state of California, but this is just the tip of the iceberg as far as what they can be used for. Ultimately, smart meters are designed to be part of an entire “smart grid” that will enable government bureaucrats “to control everything from your dishwasher to thermostat“. And in recent years, there has been a massive push to install smart meters in as many homes in the United States and Europe as possible.
Back in December 2007, there were only 7 million smart meters installed in this country. Today there are more than 51 million. On the other side of the Atlantic, the European Parliament has set a goal of having smart meters in 80 percent of all homes by the year 2020. This is being promoted as the “green” thing to do, but could it be possible that there is more to these smart meters than meets the eye?
In Long Beach, California authorities were getting complaints that a local McDonald’s restaurant was wasting water in the middle of the night.
So what did the authorities do?
They installed a smart meter which instantly started providing incriminating evidence against McDonald’s. The following comes from CBS Los Angeles…
The Long Beach Water Department says sprinklers at a McDonald’s restaurant on Bellflower Boulevard went on for 45 minutes at a time, twice a night, for an undefined number of nights. Complaints continued to mount as water pooled and wasted. The department, however, could do little about the wasting.
That was before the smart meter.
Since its installation in February, Long Beach Water Department General Manager Kevin Wattier says he saw an immediate spike by tens of thousands of gallons, each time McDonald’s overwatered their property.
And according to NPR, other large California cities are also now looking into how they can use smart meters to enforce the new mandatory water restrictions in the state…
By next February, California cities together are supposed to cut their water use by a quarter. Sacramento, San Francisco and some Central Valley cities are also seeing whether smart meters can help.
But smart meters are capable of determining far more than whether or not we are using too much water.
Already, police all over the country are using the data provided by smart meters to identify homes that are potentially growing marijuana. Homes that grow marijuana tend to use much more electricity than other homes, and so if your home is using a high level of energy that is a red flag for the cops.
In addition, there are a whole host of other ways that smart meters can be used as surveillance devices by law enforcement. The following list comes from an electronics and media expert from Burbank, California named Jerry Day…
1. They individually identify electrical devices inside the home and record when they are operated causing invasion of privacy.
2. They monitor household activity and occupancy in violation of rights and domestic security.
3. They transmit wireless signals which may be intercepted by unauthorized and unknown parties. Those signals can be used to monitor behavior and occupancy and they can be used by criminals to aid criminal activity against the occupants.
4. Data about occupant’s daily habits and activities are collected, recorded and stored in permanent databases which are accessed by parties not authorized or invited to know and share that private data.
5. Those with access to the smart meter databases can review a permanent history of household activities complete with calendar and time-of-day metrics to gain a highly invasive and detailed view of the lives of the occupants.
6. Those databases may be shared with, or fall into the hands of criminals, blackmailers, law enforcement, private hackers of wireless transmissions, power company employees, and other unidentified parties who may act against the interests of the occupants under metered surveillance.
7. “Smart Meters” are, by definition, surveillance devices which violate Federal and State wiretapping laws by recording and storing databases of private and personal activities and behaviors without the consent or knowledge of those people who are monitored.
8. It is possible for example, with analysis of certain “Smart Meter” data, for unauthorized and distant parties to determine medical conditions, sexual activities, physical locations of persons within the home, vacancy patterns and personal information and habits of the occupants.
If all of that wasn’t bad enough, there are also substantial concerns about the impact that these smart meters are having on our health…
According to physician and epidemiologist Sam Milham, Smart Meters, which are linked to an array of health issues, emit as much as 100 times the amount of radiation as a cell phone.
Daniel Hirsch, a senior lecturer on nuclear policy at UCSC, says the federal government purposely misleads the public by conducting biased safety studies at the behest of power companies.
A Washington DC power company stirred controversy in 2013 after they were caught lying to the public about how often their smart meters emitted radiation. Despite claims that the meters only emitted radiation once every 4 to 6 hours, an investigation by WUSA9 News revealed the frequency to be closer to 4 to 6 times every minute.
When there is that much radiation blasting through our homes on a continual basis, it is inevitable that there are going to be health problems.
According to Infowars, tens of thousands of people have already reported significant health issues that they believe are directly related to the installation of smart meters in their homes…
Tens of thousands of individuals are reporting officially, to governments and utilities, that they are experiencing illness or functional impairments following the installation of “smart” meters. Reported symptoms include headaches, sleep problems, ear ringing, focus difficulties, fatigue, heart palpitations, nausea and statistically abnormal recurrences of cancer.
Perhaps you are dealing with one of the health issues just mentioned.
If so, you might want to check to see if you have a smart meter in your home.
There has got to be a better way for the state of California to monitor water usage rather than smart meters.
And without a doubt, the state of California is facing a crisis of unprecedented proportions. The snowpack in the Sierras is only 5 percent of the long-term historical average. Snow levels are currently at the lowest levels ever measured for this time of the year, and the snow is melting five to 30 days earlier than normal. For much more on the nightmare that the state is dealing with, please see my previous article entitled “How Many People Will Have To Migrate Out Of California When All The Water Disappears?”
Thankfully, there is a lot of waste that can be eliminated, so a lot of water can potentially be saved. It turns out that Californians are some of the biggest water wasters on the entire planet. The following statistic comes from the New York Times…
California’s cities consume 178 gallons per person per day, on average. That’s 40 percent more than the per capita water consumption in New York City and more than double that of parched Sydney, in Australia.
So let’s hope that Californians start banding together and begin using water more wisely, because this drought is not likely to go away any time soon.
And the truth is that what is going on in the state of California is kind of a microcosm of the water crisis that is beginning to emerge all over the globe…
The move by California to require mandatory cuts in water use for the first time in its history has highlighted the world’s looming water crisis and increased the focus on the links between sustainable water and sustainable energy.
“We need a new paradigm,” says Steven Solomon, author of Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power and Civilization. “The days when we could just go further into the mountains and find new sources of water are past. We need to make better use of the water we have.”
In the end, the drought in California is going to affect all of us. A tremendous amount of our produce is grown in the state, and we will all soon be feeling the pain of the drought in our local grocery stores…
As California’s multi-year drought rages on, consumers in the rest of the United States may soon be feeling the pinch at the grocery store as farmers around California reduce water and plant fewer crops.
California, sometimes called the ‘nation’s salad bowl’, is the country’s largest producer of grapes, kiwis, olives, avocados, broccoli, tomatoes, spinach, tree nuts and dairy. Now in the fourth year of a massive drought ? and facing only a year’s worth of water remaining in the state ? food prices in the US and agricultural unemployment in California are set to climb as farmers do what they can to conserve water and protect their investments.
So what do you think about all of this?
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Why not Government supplied/mandated "Home Security Systems" in each home? /sarc
Buy a good trifield meter and start surveying and logging for the law suit.
Houston switched over to digital "smart" water meters almost 10 years ago.
Smart meters are a "tool" just like a gun; the good or evil is in the hands of whoever controls it. It can provide value and benefit, or it can be used to steal and harm.
The tools simply allows different prices at different times. This makes sense when you think about electricity which is in higher demand (and thus more expensive) during high loads such as daytime, and in lower demand (and thus less expensive) such as the evening.
If a meter can "phone home", that isn't really "smart" per se, it just saves someone coming by to read the damn thing.
Regards,
Cooter
Last time I checked guns didn't radiate the people using them. Not that I expect people to actually read before they post.
Claims of RF radiation causing anything but heat-related effects are nonsense.
This has been studied for over 100 years. Non-ionizing radiation will cook you but it doesn't cause cancer.
Let the downvotes begin...
Next thing you know there will government mandated seat belt usage in cars, mandated low flush toilets that don't work and mandated purchase of health insurance.
Oh wait....
I just can't restrain myself thinking how happy Ceausescu would have been to be able to use this tech to apply his resource rationalization plan for the looser citizen in time when he and his boyars lived in opulence and luxury.
Remember, resources rationalization *ALWAYS* applies to the ones who can't defend themselves from the ones imposing it.
"Smart meters are a tool . . ."
Well, the "tool" really messed up my cable reception - major pixelation and frozen screens - not to mention radio reception. Even the strongest stations could barely be made out over the heavy static. Everything was fine immediately after I had PG&E remove the smart meters and put in analog instead.
I have to put an electric smart meter in my house....
Yeah, it's bad but, I have to have one or I can sell them power off my solar panels..... but hey, If they cut my power, I can run off my battery bank..... and 2300lbs of batteries can do quite a bit without an electric grid tied in.
meanwhile Almond famers will still be able to use 3.5trillion gallons of water a year.. as well as the oil and gas indusry .. which farmers are using waste water from to irrigate fields..
http://hedgeaccordingly.com/2015/04/in-california-farmers-rely-on-oil-wa...
Rice farmers in the desert..... California in a nutshell....
Lundberg farms?
http://www.lundberg.com/about/
Guess the grand kids are going to add rain to that list when they move to ...
That said, I buy their organic black japonica by the 25 pound bag - I LOVE that stuff.
Regards,
Cooter
Quick calculations show that 3.5 trillion gallons is roughly double the usage of the entire population of california for residential use.
ONE commercial crop uses twice as much water as 35,000,000 Californians use for personal and home use. Yet, ALL the restrictions and cut-backs are falling on individuals. Fuck that.
That's NUTS!
Already in the works:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2985202/Scotland-Yard-chief-Hoga...
Good news, Comrades, the water ration has been increased from 10 gallons to 8 gallons per day.
Distrust ALL things digital...
The first "Breathalizer" and everyone in use to day is a absolute legal fraud and so is everything that measures any bodily functions. FRAUD!! Think it through--an analog body being tested by a soley digital machine. Cannot be done!!! Milestones
Before, hit squads had to case out the victim, to finds out his or her habits, to locate the best spot to carry out the execution. Made to look like an accident (Michael Hastings) or suicide (Vincent Foster, David Kelly). Now digital technology like "smart meters" and NSA 24 hour cellphone monitoring make such casework redundant. Spikes of water usage on the smart meter to indicate toilet or shower usage, you know where the prey is. Welcome to the digital world of Murder Inc.
I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... www.globe-report.com
So when do they put cameras in our bedrooms?
Smart Orgasms!
Samsung Smart TV's
They already dd CG. Called a "smart meter". will interface with smart appliances and data mining. Already happened.
I have an old analog meter that I pay 30% more to keep. I warned people.
So nice to get comments now. Bit friggin late to the show CG.
‘I warned people.’
LOL As you’re being dragged off to the guillotines.
Adding solar panels as quickly as I can afford them. Totally off grid might just be in my future.
Agreed.
I have a subdivision lot. I have to ditch this place and get something on a few acres. Plant solar panels everywhere.
The following is slightly interesting –
Laser-generated surface structures create extremely water-repellent metals
‘The combination of light-absorbing properties with making metals water repellent could lead to more efficient solar absorbers – solar absorbers that don’t rust and do not need much cleaning.’
http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/superhydrophobic-metals-85592/
How do you know they are not filming you now?
Ohhhhh.....kinky.
In United Surveillance States of America porn watches you!
Pretty sure most cell phones are "smart" meters.
"Citizen, it has come to our attention that you are exceeding your ration by taking a shit twice a day."
In Calif you are allowed to grow mj, just not acres of it at home.
For your own use the limit is six plants and that can produce about 1.5 lbs every 3 months.
Collectives can grow more because of "pooled" interests.
I believe that's only true if you have a medical mj card.
Currently dope is not legal for recreational use in California.
Correct.
I was watching an episode of COPS and they were helping a person with a medical card look for her plants that were stolen from her back yard.
Cop made the remark that 10 years ago they would have had the complainer in handcuffs, and now they are helping look for her plants.
Times change and the water dries up to.
The healthiest man in the world can get a card.
All [even well intended] technologies are first used... the misused... then abused
Just say no.
(the last time i looked in on a community resisting smart meters (california mid-sized city) the resistance was losing the battle)
CA Citation 29102920 Water Works District 4
Dear Citizen.
Our records show that on Apr 4, 2015 at 7:23pm your shower time exceeded the allowed threshold by 3.42 seconds. This is confirmed via NSA showercam footage record: 605-566-678.
Please report to precinct 187 for mandatory punishment.
You have 48 hours to report prior to an unannounced SWAT raid.
orwell 1984...
you will have chips under your skin and numbers instead of names
If we get to choose I will ask for corn chips. BBQ frito's if I can.......
Infowars? I was reading up until that point. It's as if you quoted Jim Cramer.
Step right up and get your smart meter, Goy!
I'm waiting on the smart toilet, maybe an Itoilet, let your friends and or the govornment know about your stohl consistancies without having to bother with your phone. And to think, when your done you can have Hillary wipe it clean!!!!
They are already working on smart sewage meters that can spectroscopically monitor what's coming out of your body [such as illicit substances].
Welcome to the Gulag.
Most people probably thought it was just a joke when South Park did that episode on the Toilet Safety Administration. I wonder if that iToilet will have seat belts. Undoubtedly it will report the contents of your excretions to your Obamacare provider and the DEA (just in case you try flushing your dope down the toilet as the SWAT team comes to pay a house call).
Over time, living in close proximity to a Smart Meter, e.g. just outside the wall where one sleeps, is most assuredly detrimental to the health of ones immune system. Add to that "frequency" the entire Smart Grid of the neighborhood and the problem grows exponentially. Slow brain fry and every thing that that entails... insomnia, confusion, entropy, etc., etc..
If one is going to be connected to the grid, best to be on an analog meter, and pay the extra "fine". Or, just live where there is not a smart grid, if possible.
Best avoid apts then I got like 400 wifi user's in mine.
What is the electromagnetic difference between a smart grid and any old grid again?
Hey Kool-Aid
That apartment would be ok if the 400 users did not secure their wifi password, thus allowing the neighbors free internet.
Really?? Health problems from fucking smart meters? Dear Tylers, welcome to Retardsville. Hope Michael Snyder pays you through the nose to promote this kind of unsubstantiated blogspamming bullshit. Thanks for doing your part to make the world dumber.
Keep drinking whatever it is that a Pleb drinks, Zionist Shill troll.
You can talk shit when you've reached a high school level of scientific literacy... which is all it takes to understand that the E/M waves emitted by your smart meter are harmless. It must be terrifying living inside that lead-shielded cardboard box of yours.
P.S. what does this have to do with Zionism again? Retard.
Smart meters use one of two methods to communicate with the electric company.
1.) Transmission of data over your powerline [harmless to your person]
2.) Transmission via RF
The frequency of operation is typically in the 902 MHz and 2.4 GHz bands.
Power output is typically 1 watt in the 902 MHz band and less in the 2.4 GHz band.
Depending on how close you are to the meter and how often you are in close proximity, it is similar to standing near a microwave oven [2.4GHz] while it's operating and with the door open.
Microwave ovens are limited to 5 milliwatts (mW) of microwave radiation per square centimeter at approximately 2 inches from the oven surface
Potentially dangerous, yes. Without a doubt.
How long until you'll be done? Hard to say.
Nice try, but you skipped the rest of that paragraph in the FDA guidelines. Context matters:
This limit is far below the level known to harm people. Microwave energy also decreases dramatically as you move away from the source of radiation. A measurement made 20 inches from an oven would be approximately one one-hundredth of the value measured at 2 inches.
I am sure that if you stood with your naked eyeball an inch from a 2.4 GHz transmitter for long enough, something bad would happen (specifically: cataracts). Calling it equivalent to the exposure with the door open, however, is disingenuous and stupid on many levels (You've seen what happens when a CD is placed in a microwave. If the transmitter is that bad, how is it that the circuitry inside still functions?). It is in fact a perfect example of the scientific illiteracy that I'm talking about.
Stick to the peer-reviewed literature, which has been unable to find any connection between a physical sensitivity to non-ionizing EMR and reality.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935108000601
http://journals.lww.com/psychosomaticmedicine/pages/articleviewer.aspx?y...
Without wanting to take sides in the safe/unsafe debate, I'm rather underwhelmed by your suggesting we rely on peer-reviewed literature. I recall the same statements were made regarding global warming. Government can buy as much scientific confirmation as it wants; there are plenty of scientists for sale.
You're right. We should trust a ring of circular blog references that include the likes of Infowars instead, because I'm sure Alex Jones doesn't take promotional money from anyone.
Honestly I understand the cynicism, but just because some peer review processes have been tainted does not mean they all have. It is important to read the literature yourself because as some commentators above have ably demonstrated, things get taken out of context and the meaning distorted when you get your facts from second-hand sources.
well ignnore the RF issues for a minute,
how about safety?
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2014/07/pge_replacing_some_...
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Portland General Electric is replacing 70,000 residential "smart" meters that run the risk of catching fire, many of them installed at rental properties in East Multnomah County.
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SaskPower, a utility in Saskatchewan, Canada, is in the midst of a province-wide smart meter program using Sensus meters. But it suspended that initiative two weeks ago following six fires tied to meters in the last two months.
PECO Energy in Philadelphia also replaced all its Sensus smart meters in 2012 after several of them overheated and caught fire, two of them resulting in serious house fires, according to the Philadelphia Inquirier.
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http://www.takebackyourpower.net/news/2015/04/01/hundreds-of-smart-meter...
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http://www.takebackyourpower.net/news/2015/04/01/hundreds-of-smart-meter...
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n Monday, hundreds of “smart” meters simultaneously exploded in Stockton, California, when a truck ran into a utility pole. Watch the video:
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The catastrophic failure of these PG&E “smart” meters — which are not approved by Underwriters Laboratories (UL) — not only damaged meter bases and other homeowner property, but left those 5,800 customers without power.
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Last July, the province of Saskatchewan ordered the removal of all 105,000 “smart” meters, following a rash of fires. Portland OR, Lakeland FL, Arizona and Ontario followed suit with mass removals.
Quebec firefighters are up-in-arms that Hydro-Quebec agents have actually been unlawfully taking “smart” meters from fire scenes prior to investigation.
Analog meters are not susceptible to fires. The risk of fires is a “smart” new feature for all customers, brought to you by your PR-spinning utility. Back in 2011, after a similar power surge ignited 80 “smart” meters in Palo Alto, California,
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Looks like the smartest move is...
Out of state!
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Mass immigration ends in a gulag because the problems caused by it can't be fixed by the price mechanism: increasing physical demand for goods (more people) is combined with decreasing effective demand (lower income) so the only solution is state coercion.
"It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the water ration to twenty pints a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty pints a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it."
The banksters need to repay us.
8 years ago I built a new house. The city demanded I install a water meter, so I did. In our city, being on the shores of Lake Superior, water has never ever been an issue. But the city insisted they now wanted meteres in all new construction. So I complied. Then 4 years ago, the city council decided to demand every house in the city install these new Smart Meters. I was thus forced to eject my new meter, a manual reader, and install a new smart meter. Across the city, 99% of homes had no water meters until this city edict. So even though we pay a flat water fee, and have an inland ocean of fresh water at our doorsteps, we now were made to pay for Smart Meters. As I said, the city does not monitor water use and never has. Yet we all have smart meters now. So HOW COME, and it was a really RUSH JOB. We were given a couple months to all put them in under stiff fines and water shut down if we did not comply.
Simple question: The city never had meters. The city has no intention of reading or tracking water use, they are staying with the flat fee system. YET, why was there a sudden, out of nowhere, panic to install these electronic meters in every single home? I can't over state the word PANIC. The city was using every power they had to force people to comply with exteme speed.
It dont record what goes in your house it records what goes out.
Don't comply. I was told that I had to hook up electricity to my house that I was building to get a permit to occupy. so I did then three months later when I dried it in I called the power company and said that I needed the power unhooked to put the home on a carriage to move the house to another property they did, I did not move the house and I never hooked it back up fuck government and their petty DICKtators
Growing alfalfa and shit. In San Diego there are still large avocado groves.
Still growing food in San Diego..Gawd what a jack off.
My grove been here for a long time. My water goes back down to the aquifer. I pay a lot to rent water..the same water over and over. Meanwhile, in San Diego they been scraping the hills and building boxes and I don't want them. More houses bitches...more cops too..bunch more pensions.
Moar jack offs...
The next step is a specialized hydro-meter.The government wants to know when you turn on your lights and use your appliances.If you use a debit or credit card they know what you wipe your ass with.Please don't squeeze the Charmin.The reason towns put in water meters is not just to rip you off on water but they also have the sewer service charges pro-rated to how much water you use and rip you off on that too.
Some people in my neighborhood in SE Florida have two meters. One for normal house use, the other for stuff like pools and lawn watering. The latter does not count for sewer fees. Having the water table about 8' below ground level, I use a well and pump for watering the foliage. The ground water also turns stuff to a uniform shade of rust if left uncleaned. Lots of iron in the water. I wonder when they'll insist on putting a meter on my well pump.
Back when i was unfortunate enough to grow up in FL, we had a well in pretty much every house we lived in. Usually it was located in the garage and made a terrible racket when it ran. What I remember is the strong smell of sulphur (smells like rotten eggs) from the ground water it brought up. On the plus side, it was "free", only had to pay for the electricity to run the pump. This pump was only connected to the sprinkler system, we had city water for inside the house. Where we lived last, in SW St. Petersburg, we were only about 6 inches above sea level, so low that a strong wind would nearly flood our neighborhood with water from Boca Ciega Bay. I don't remember any iron in the water back then, only sulphur. Maybe it's changed, or your area is different? And don't worry, it's only a matter of time before they meter the well water. Leave it to the gov't to screw up anything it touches.
Not as massive as the push for off grid energy arrays, anyone can do it now.
enough solar to run the AC in the day time is all I need for now combined with led lights.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_21
Here in Melbourne Australia they have installed smart electricity meters.....
They busted a number of big hidden home growing dope operations in that process....
Dope? ... Here we call it cash crop.
Americans deserved this and more they've been so cowards to fight back the regime of dual-citizens who have taken over their country.
Ankle bracelets with water sensors.
Hey I reworked my seat of the pants estimate of the LA river and it turns out 1 Carlsbad = 100 acre-feet is a cube about 160 feet, so I now figure that in a normal rain year in Los Angeles of fourteen inches rain, the LA river dumps about 80% of the area's total water requirements right on out to the ocean, just over 15 days of rain.
Of course in a drought year, not so much, but even so.
Add in reduced flow for even another ten days, subsidary contributions from the San Gabriel river and Ballona Creek, and maybe something from Malibu and the "Ventura River", and I'll bet it covers 100% right there.
Increase grey water recovery for golf courses and such.
Add even a couple of desalination plants. One "Carlsbad/year" is about 1% of Los Angeles' total demand.
Only in a drought year would Los Angeles need to pull *anything* from the Sierras or the Colorado, which is of course exactly when they wouldn't have so much to give. So build a few more desalination plants, figure 1% each. And pump some of the excess up into lakes and reservoirs for boating and fish, too, before being used.
Seems altogether doable. I wonder who will do it.
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Dang it, I forgot to recalculate for the vertical 160 as well, it looks like the LA river alone dumps *over* 100% of LA's annual water requirements per year, in a normal rain year. So that leaves enough to flow some more through the river(s) still, for what it's worth.
use solar in grow house: check
recycle grey water for said grow: check
I am guessing that California fracking companies are exempt from this metering "nuisance"...
Not even required to cut back.
"California’s cities consume 178 gallons per person per day, on average. That’s 40 percent more than the per capita water consumption in New York City and more than double that of parched Sydney, in Australia."
... Hmmm ... I don't remember seeing a tree in NYC or Syndey, except at the zoo
What is liberty?