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California Adopts "Unprecedented" Restrictions On Water Use As Drought Worsens
Early last month we warned that California’s drought was approaching historic proportions and that if climatologists were to be believed, the country may see a repeat of The Dirty Thirties as experts cite “Dust Bowl” conditions. Governor Jerry Brown has called for statewide water restrictions aimed at reducing consumption by 25%.
Now, the conservation calls are getting much louder as the state’s water regulators have approved “unprecedented” measures aimed at curtailing the crisis.
Via AP:
California water regulators adopted sweeping, unprecedented restrictions Tuesday on how people, governments and businesses can use water amid the state's ongoing drought, hoping to push reluctant residents to deeper conservation.
The State Water Resources Control Board approved rules that force cities to limit watering on public property, encourage homeowners to let their lawns die and impose mandatory water-savings targets for the hundreds of local agencies and cities that supply water to California customers.
Gov. Jerry Brown sought the more stringent regulations, arguing that voluntary conservation efforts have so far not yielded the water savings needed amid a four-year drought. He ordered water agencies to cut urban water use by 25 percent from levels in 2013, the year before he declared a drought emergency…
Despite the dire warnings, it's also still not clear that Californians have grasped the seriousness of the drought or the need for conservation. Data released by the board
Tuesday showed that Californians conserved little water in March, and local officials were not aggressive in cracking down on waste.
A survey of local water departments showed water use fell less than 4 percent in March compared with the same month in 2013. Overall savings have been only about 9 percent since last summer.
Under the new rules, each city is ordered to cut water use by as much as 36 percent compared with 2013.
And more color from The LA Times which reports that California will begin cracking down on “wasters” via the imposition of stiff fines as millions of trees die out in National Forests, raising the risk of wildfires :
“Right now we're scared. Right now we're in the denial stage. We have to get into acceptance, and we have a relatively short period of time to do it.”
Others were more skeptical, citing new data showing that California's hundreds of urban water suppliers assessed only 682 penalties to water wasters in the last several months after receiving more than 10,000 complaints.
The enforcement data demonstrate the “need to make enforcement a true deterrent to water wasting,” said Mark Gold of UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. “People don't park in posted street sweeping parking spaces three weeks in a row. The vast majority of people in California are not looking at this as a dire situation, yet.”
Years of extremely dry conditions are taking a heavy toll on forest lands across California and heightening the fire risk as summer approaches.
“The situation is incendiary,” William Patzert, a climatologist for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told The Times recently. “The national forest is stressed out”...
A new study by the U.S. Forest Service tried to assess the scope of the problem. Researchers estimated that the drought has killed off at least 12.5 million trees in California’s national forests during the drought.
The scientists expect the die-off to continue. “It is almost certain that millions more trees will die over the course of the upcoming summer as the drought situation continues and becomes ever more long term,” said biologist Jeffrey Moore, acting regional aerial survey program manager for the U.S. Forest Service.
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Of course, cutting back will come at a steep cost for utility companies who will promptly attempt to replace an estimated $1 billion in lost revenue by raising prices for consumers. Between rising utility costs and fines of up to $10,000 for egregious violations of the state's conservation efforts, hydration just got a lot more expensive in California — unless you're a MotherFracker, in which case none of this applies.
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1) You live in a desert
2) You have no rainfall
3) You were living on borrowed time stealing water from upstate
4) Government is in charge of water resources
5) You expect perpetual growth
This is California today, and San Antonio and Austin in Texas tomorrow (they are trying their hardest to emulate).
Not all of California is a desert, stupid.
Hence why northern Cali is so pissed. (See Jefferson movement)
Get the politicians on this rainfall issue. Make it rain in CA dammit, or we'll unelect all you losers and put someone in there who CAN make it rain. Sheesh.
Yes extracting money from people wallets will make it rain...Again I fuck'en hate Progressive retards we need to give them their own spot of land, say North Korea for instance.
Much of California's problems are self-inflicted. As in Sacramento self-inflicted. And what is one of Gov. Moonbeams solutions?
A TRAIN.
On a more serious note, there are consequences for decades of screwing with the water flow to protect a species of: plant, bird, etc.
It's California. Who gives a fuck about that shithole state. Left it over a decade ago, never once looked back, and am far better off for it. Let it rot in leftist fucking hell and die.
" Let it rot in leftist fucking hell and die."
You would do well to move to florida, or texas, a rightest hellhole.
You'd do to quit being so stupid. Right and left are just theater.
What do you really expect from a MANGINA?
He seeks social validation...like any other WOMAN.
In that MANGINA'S MIND the Truth is established by consensus rather than by fact.
Jeez Merca is falling apart. Karma time.
Thou shall reap what thou hast sown.
So much for the shining city on the hill apple pie hubris bullshit .
You do not understand Karma.
Karma is cause and effect. and karmic retribution comes in myriad ways.
The Chemtrail Geo-Engineering program is absolutely real. I've lived in Southern California all my life, nearly 53 years, right smack dab in the area featured on this article's map, and I've seen the spraying from the beginning.
Are they responsible for the drought? Unknown, but I DO suspect that they are part of its proliferation and exacerbation. I think they're affecting the jet stream flow and allowing the dry conditions to continue. It's nasty shit - you can see it. It's plain as day.
Go to Youtube and hear the Chemtrail Pilot say that they know they are causing the draught, and that they are now planning to extend the drought to the Heartland.
The Aluminum and Barium metallic dust is causing the breakdown of low pressure systems, just the opposite of the Silver Iodide seeding of clouds to make it rain.
But listen to Zero go. OOOOOh, we should be so woooried, and fall into line with what our overseers are telling us to do. Don't ask any questions like, "WHY".
I have a friend who lives in LA area who is trying to use as much water as he can now to get his "average per month" up so that when the "50% reduction" is enforced he will be at his normal usage level. This is what govt does - screws things up even more.
How would they enforce a 50% reduction? Shut off water when you hit your limit?
a big fat fine on your next water bill which if you then don't pay you will be shut off as normal for not paying your bill
They'll create a speshul water police who'll come round and sodomize you.
Where's Tank Girl when you need her?
to get his "average per month"...
Let me guess, he's employed as an aging calpers / calstrs contributor.
Bringing water to a desert climate is sure to work as well as printing money is...
Once Kommiefornia goes tits up, they'll flood everywhere else the can flee too. And they'll bring their Marxist bullshit along.
Gut shoot 'em at the border.
All those giving me thumbs down must be Kommiefornian Marxists...
"Despite the dire warnings, it's also still not clear that Californians have grasped the seriousness of the drought or the need for conservation."
What it comes down to, is everyone in California agrees on emptying the neighbor's swimming pool, but not theirs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUJldt4hZzg
There is a high confidence level (4/5) that it is exacerbated by global warming according to the IPCC. It's shown on the map of AR5 WG2 Summary For Policymakers. This was also discussed about two weeks ago by the lead author of WG2, Chris Field (a Cali resident), at Harvard's President's invitation moderated by Charlie Rose:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pDb0mPyedk&feature=player_detailpage#t=...
Chris Field discusses climate change, government, and markets vis-a-vis California's drought...
In John Steinbeck's _The Grapes of Wrath_ all the dust bowl farmers from Oklahoma traveled to California to find greenery and water. What we have here is a reverse of climate that occured in the dirty thirties.
"Gov. Jerry Brown sought the more stringent regulations, arguing that voluntary conservation efforts have so far not yielded the water savings needed..."
Gov. Moonbeam's measures haven't yielded any savings because they're squeezing the same average folks they've always squeezed. We can't save any more than we're saving right now. We've been harassed by water cops for the last two decades here. All the shower heads have been replaced with low-flow units, as have the toilets. We already get fined if we water on the wrong days or let water run into the gutter. Etc. Etc. Etc. For the average Californian, the only ways to save any more water are to let the yard die completely, euthanize the pets, stop showering altogether, and simply lie down and die.
"Despite the dire warnings, it's also still not clear that Californians have grasped the seriousness of the drought or the need for conservation."
As the article points out, the true water wasters, like fracking, agriculture and Nestle are exempt, as they always have been. The truth is that Gov. Moonbeam has not grasped the seriousness of this drought. If and when he does, we'll see restrictions targeted at the cronies.
...and an independent prosecutor assigned to investigate geoengineering activities by the US military. Every time the Pacific generates a storm, the planes go up and chem-bomb it into oblivion. Any Californian has only to look up and watch the weather war against us being prosecuted.
The drought is our second biggest problem. The first is sellout, whore governors and legislators, and the minions of evil in the military.
Water bottlers such as Nestle, oil frackers, vinyards, golf courses, and almond growers (for exporrt) will continue to get all the water they want.
My last pay check was $9500 working 12 hours a week online. My sisters friend has been averaging 15k for months now and she works about 20 hours a week. I can't believe how easy it was once I tried it out. This is what I do... www.jobs-review.com
That truly is a lot of semen swallowing.
That truly is a lot of semen swallowing.
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“Right now we're scared.
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but we weren't scared last yr or the yr before.
hell, we weren't scared 6 months ago.
leaders of the free world.
lmao
I am sitting in Humboldt County. As I see things, this drought has made the weather much more enjoyable up here. Drizzle, periodic rain, temps between 60-75 F and slight breeze. We are right on the coast and our house has a well (with water in it) as well as city water. There are tons of old Victorian ear houses that need to be bought here to push the value of thes homes up higher. The sunshine is making this place good for growing food (finally). Maybe there was somthing to that 6 state solution months ago or maybe it's time for us to recalculate how we use this abundance of water as a big flipping bird to the rest of the state. I can't take any opinion pieces or news article seriously with respect to people in a desert-turn-metropolis not having the water they need. I think some one said it before, send them uhauls and suitcases and the last person to leave the area can destroy Nestlee and said natural gas companies.
DAMN it's drizzling again with a 20% chance for the remainder of today.
Hard to cut the green lush grass when it's wet.
You have a bankrupt state in control of a precious commodity that is currently in extreme short supply. This state has implemented "controls" over this precious commodity. Yeah, this is going to be fun to watch.
"You owe us $15,000 for 'excess water usage.' Trust us, you used too much."
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
Maybe if all those illegals were sent back across the border.........
The people are just conserving so businesses can use it all up.
Jerry Bobo supervised the sale of the water rights to the Rothschilds and now poised to make those rights pay like no bid State largess has everybody criticizing the businesses that rely on water.
What a dick.
WATER REGULATORS, really? that's so .gov. Ever try to regulate a gallon of water? How about rainfall, lets see the regulators demand that the rain fall. lmao. They are just more .gov people telling other people what to do and enforcing it at the point of a gun.
Thank god the trees have enough sense to die. Now they won't be sucking up that precious water that the people need for their lawns and car washes. Surprised CA didn't establish a Tree Regulator Board. They could order the trees to drink less, or fine them even. If you drink too much we will cut off a limb.
How about a LeakyPipe Regulator Board. You could order the pipes to quit leaking. Three drips and you're out.
Water Nazi's, "No Water For You". come back in One Year!
Of course the Regulators are really just worried the water will disappear. Then people will see they really couldn't regulate water; it was just another .gov crony coporate welfare program.
How about rainfall, lets see the regulators demand that the rain fall. lmao.
In Oregon recently there was a guy who ended up going to JAIL for collecting and using rainwater from his own property so the precedent has already been set - albeit not in California . . . .
Something has changed in the way the report the weather... again. In northern Phoenix area we have been getting plenty of rain. A couple days ago I measured a half inch in my backyard and a couple weekends ago it rained throughout the better part of an entire weekend.
I noticed along time ago that the global warming meme was affecting the way the weather forcast was being reported. In northern states they stopped reporting on windchill or glossed over it quickly in reports and started referring to it as "feels like". One would think that if it's -5 and there are 20 mile an hour winds, windchill should be a rather important part of the forcast and should always be posted on the low temperature in the pictures they commonly use for forcasts, this is how it was done in the past.
The high temps and daytime temps began to be emphasized and the lows and night time temps glossed over and sometimes not even posted. Errors consistently were made in the favor of higher temperatures and almost never for the lower.
This seems to be happening with rain in the SW now. They always error on the side of lower quantities of rain in the forcast. I am not denying that there is a severe drought, I am just suspicious of how extreme the problem is and what interests may be involved in controlling perceptions. It may be anecdotal but it's been consistent for a very long time.
It's not "global warming" it is climate change. Winters will be colder and snowier. Summers hotter and drier. The air streams will shift north or south.
Your example of PHoenix getting rain outside of the monsoon season is one proof. Where I am from, Montana, this is what we fear:
Montana gets blasted with cold and snow from about Nov to March. Late March the warm Chinook winds blow and being to melt that heavy snow and ice accumulation.
If those warm air patterns shift north or south, Montana has frozen conditions until May. The ground could be too hard to plant spring crops. Affects the bread basket.
Following up on that. In the years where Montana is now having milder and warmer winters, bark beetles are flourishing and it is devastasting large swatths of forests.
Usually the brutal temps kill tem off. Now their seasons is lengthening and all these critters do is eat and fuck.
When I travel to see my parents it is very weird and spooky to see so much deforestation, which of course in the summer makes those deadtrees perfect kindling for massive forest fires.
Ergo climate change, too little for those who need a lot. Too much for those who already have enough
It's not "global warming" it is climate change.
The issue of contention on this subject is the case being made for man-caused global warming (now "climate change" since their models don't jive with the actual temps being recorded). When the IPCC specifically excluded any causation other than those related to man's activities in assessing this issue you know something political was up with the whole thing. The other thing that is not being covered is the lag between temperature rises and CO2 levels - i.e. the temps have been shown to rise BEFORE the CO2 levels rise! When things like solar activity (or lack of it), volcanism and other natural weather modifiers are left out of the "predictions" what is left is basically worthless. But you'll never hear any of this from .gov, TPTB and the MSM who are all colluding to get people to accept the trading of "carbon credits" to mitigate the "effects" of CO2 release into the atmosphere . . . just another BIG FINANCIAL SCAM.
Slow polar shift is occurring. in a few decades Siberia could be like Florida. and vice versa.
Fliegende Boyänder.
I hope somebody warns the equator
I have prime ag land in Idaho with double water shares with additional freshwater well and unlimited capacity. For Sale to Californian with lots of money! Mexicans available, no need to bring your own. This should solve the problem for at least one family.
I'd be on that like a sailor on a whore of I didn't have to finish the last ten years of my career here in Priusland. Can't do a lot of visual effects work in idaho.
But I can retire the fuck out of myself there and start my master race breeding program.
I know lots of people here hate Solar power being brought up. I guess you consider it ''too liberal'' Seeing as in the USA , lots of people try to make EVERY GODDAM thing a Lib vs con matter. Its hilarious to read the comments.
An area the size of France in the Sahara Desert (which is as large as the entire lower 48 states) can produce enough solar power farms to power the entire planet.
here is a good documentary that everyone should watch. Especially the people who like to play the ''libs vs cons'' game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr-grdspEWQ
I know lots of people here hate Solar power being brought up. I guess you consider it ''too liberal'' Seeing as in the USA , lots of people try to make EVERY GODDAM thing a Lib vs con matter. Its hilarious to read the comments.
An area the size of France in the Sahara Desert (which is as large as the entire lower 48 states) can produce enough solar power farms to power the entire planet.
here is a good documentary that everyone should watch. Especially the people who like to play the ''libs vs cons'' game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr-grdspEWQ
With California being the state with the nations largest GDP (and arguably larger than many countries), this historic drought could send the US into a recession all by itself.
TAke away all the millions of fast food restaurants in the USA and what is your GDP then? LOL
We know you consider making burgers as manufacturing.
Is this why they refer to some mortgages as being 'under water?'
Anybody?