CA Gov Jerry Brown to Impose Mandatory Water Restrictions

[Alan C.]

Brown orders California's first mandatory water restrictions: 'It's a different world'

 

Brown ordered the California Water Resources Control Board to implement mandatory restrictions to reduce water usage by 25%.

 

. . .

 

--Require golf courses, cemeteries and other large landscaped spaces to reduce water consumption. 

--Replace 50 million square feet of lawn statewide with drought-tolerant landscaping as part of a partnership with local governments.

--Create a statewide rebate program to replace old appliances with more water- and energy-efficient ones.

--Require new homes to have water-efficient drip irrigation if developers want to use potable water for landscaping.

--Ban the watering of ornamental grass on public street medians.

--Call on water agencies to implement new pricing models that discourage excessive water use.

--Require agricultural to report more water usage information to the state so that regulators can better find waste and improper activities.

--Create a mechanism to enforce requirements that water districts report usage numbers to the state.

 

It's funny how everything the government manages ends up resulting in shortages.

[WasatchMan]

It's funny how everything the government manages ends up resulting in shortages.

 

Especially when they live right next to a body of water (the Pacific Ocean) that covers 165 million square kilometers (about 1/3 the size of the earth), with approximately 660 million cubic kilometers of water.

[mlsv2f]

Their solution is always raise costs/taxes/size of government     

 

I'm sure that's going to help

[Matt.prince19]

Dead Kennedys- California Uber Alles

 

I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles and never frowns
Soon I will be President

Carter power will soon go away
I will be fuhrer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school
Your kids will meditate in school

California Uber Alles
California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California
Uber Alles California

Zen fascists will control you 100% natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face
Close your eyes, can't happen here

Big Bro' on the white horse is near
The hippies won't come back, you say
Mellow out or you will pay
Mellow out or you will pay

Now it is 1984
Knock, knock at your front door
It's the suede-denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece

Come quietly to the camp
You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don't you worry, it's only a shower
For your clothes, here's a pretty flower

Die on organic poison gas
Serpent's egg's already hatched
You will croak, you little clown
When you mess with President Brown
When you mess with President Brown

[Alan C.]

Residents could face fines for taking long showers

[aeonicentity]

I love how none of those solutions address the problem: They have subsidized water use for too long to farmers, and other special interests.

[J. D. Stembal]

In honor of our fellow oppressed Californians, I will resume beating off in the shower regularly, like a teenager.

 

Freedom is happiness! Tyranny is death to the male libido!

 

I thought this was a humorous typographical error:

 

 

We have a state water board that overseas the relationships with the districts.