Posted on 04/01/2015 12:05:51 PM PDT by dware
ECHO LAKE, Calif. – California Gov. Jerry Brown has ordered state officials to impose mandatory water restrictions for the first time in history as the state grapples with a serious drought.
In an executive order issued Wednesday, Brown ordered the state water board to implement reductions in cities and towns to cut usage by 25 percent.
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Illegal aliens in the US consume 1 TRILLION gallons of water every year.
THINK about that liberals when the government turns off your water!
Lol. Only brilliant one I know is JimRob, and I got family in Cali!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!
It starts.
Boy, are they in for it.
And Seattle, my home town, gets its water from cascade snow. ‘Cept there isn’t any. At all.
I see brown lawns and dirty cars in their future.
Grand theft auto...
Jobs...
Yep, they’re busy folks.
“When the Carlsbad Desalination Project is completed this fall, it will be the largest desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere.”
“Santa Barbara owns a mothballed plant — built more than 20 years ago during another severe drought — that can turn seawater into drinking water. But it was never used beyond a tryout phase before steady rain began falling again. Now, officials are working to press the Charles E. Meyer Desalination Facility back into service as the city’s reservoirs continue to diminish.”
“Desalinated water will cost about a third more than Santa Barbara’s imported water because on top of the estimated $40 million it could take to open the plant, it could cost $5.2 million a year to keep it running.”
Does this mean that hippies won’t be filling their bongs with water? I doubt it...
The average person uses 100 gallons of water a day:
The following are examples of how people use water found on the USGS government website:
http://water.usgs.gov/edu/qa-home-percapita.html
Bath A full tub is about 36 gallons.
Shower 2-2.5 gallons per minute. Old shower heads use as much as 4 gallons per minute.
Teeth brushing <1 gallon, especially if water is turned off while brushing. Newer bath faucets use about 1 gallon per minute, whereas older models use over 2 gallons.
Hands/face washing 1 gallon
Face/leg shaving 1 gallon
Dishwasher 20 gallons/load, depending of efficiency of dishwasher
Dishwashing by hand: 4 gallons/minute for old faucets.. Newer kitchen faucets use about 1-2 gallons per minutes.
Clothes washer 25 gallons/load for newer washers. Older models use about 40 gallons per load.
Toilet flush 3 gallons for older models. Most all new toilets use 1.2-1.6 gallons per flush.
Glasses of water drunk 8 oz. per glass (did you remember to drink your 8 glasses of water today?)
Outdoor watering 2 gallons per minute
There are 30 MILLION + illegal aliens in the US
so.... 30,000,000 X 100 gallons = 3 billion gallons of fresh water consumed per DAY by illegal aliens (at a minimum)
365 days in a year X 3 billion = 1.095 TRILLION gallons of water a year.
Word.
Ansel, the costs are more, but if you consider an increase of 50% on 25% of the water you use, it brings the cost down to only a 12.5% cost increase overall.
It increases your total water available by 25%. That’s a very big help for only 12.5% increase in cost.
If you associate this cost with a duel purpose power plant, that 12.5% can be offset in part as well.
Thanks for your comments on the Santa Barbara plant. I wasn’t aware of that.
Stop injecting common sense into the discussion. It’s offensive.
With all of the special interests and bureaucracy in CA, it would take at least 5 years to approve a new desalination plant - ask Carlsbad and Huntington Beach.
I don't know if it will do the job. Call me skeptical (but not cynical) But the desalination plant going up in Carlsbad is only going to provide 7% of the water needs for the San Diego area. And it's the largest plant being built in the western hemisphere. I'm not sure if desalination is the silver bullet everyone thinks it is.
I'm willing to be convinced. I'm sure we've got some hydrologist Freeper lurking around somewhere :-)
Those figures for newer shower flow rates are totally bogus.
What idiot in their right mind can’t figure out that you need to be wet and rinsed off no matter the flow rate?
Reduced flows mean that it simply takes longer to get wet and rinse off.
The five minute shower becomes a ten minute shower.
Simply brilliant.
I solved the problem in two ways. I took out the limiter inside my shower heads and then added a 2nd shower head with a splitter
TWO THOUSAND!!!
Where's my ration card.....I need a drink....!
Leni
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3274682/posts?page=14#14
Read this post and the one after it.
First thing I do it remove the limiter also.
I understand the problem, but dirty people, streets and property isn’t the answer.
Dead plants aren’t either. Dirty tens of thousands of dollars worth of investments in autos isn’t either.
If our grand-parent’s generation of people weren’t so creative, we wouldn’t have the water we do today. And yet, our leaders today have no foresight whatsoever.
Limit this, cut that, over tax the other...
Idiots one and all!
Hey, I’m sure you’re right.
This leadership is anything but. You have to drag them kicking and screaming to a solution, then force them almost at gunpoint (figuratively) to implement it.
yep, I dont think a major dam has been built in this country in decades.
A few minutes of research revealed the problem is even worse than I thought. I thought he just hadn’t built any NEW dams in decades..
In fact, it looks like from this article.. that we have been DESTROYING dams by the 100’s for the last couple of decades! (over 500+ according to this article!)
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