Posted on 06/05/2018 3:32:34 PM PDT by Hadean
(Meredith/CBS13) – A new law passed in California will soon limit the number of gallons of water a person is allowed to use per day.
By 2022, residents in California will be limited to 55 gallons per person, per day. In 2013, the number of gallons used is expected to fall to 50.
According to CBS13, California is the first state across the country to institute tough, water-efficiency standards like this.
“With a child and every day having to wash clothes, that’s not feasible. That’s my opinion,” Tanya Allen, the mother of a -four-year-old, told CBS13. “But I get it and I understand that we’re trying to preserve. But 55 gallons a day?”
How many gallons?!
With the newly passed law, many people are asking if 55 gallons a day is enough. CBS13 broke down just how much water an average home uses:
An eight-minute shower uses about 17 gallons of water. One load of laundry uses about 40. Taking a bath can use anywhere between 80 and 100 gallons of water.
“I think the average new home is 35 gallons per person, per day, so we are not talking emergency conservation here,” Chair of the State Water Resources Control Board Felicia Marcus told CBS13.
Ways to cut back
One solution to the water problem is retrofitting homes with more efficient water fixtures, which would help in cutting back water usage. Another solution is for officials to fix leaks and educate residents.
“We lose up to 30 percent of urban water just to leaks in the system,” Greg Bundesen, who works with the Sacramento Suburban Water District, said. “Some people may not be aware that you’re going to use a lot more water in a bath. It’s our job to make sure they’re informed.”
The new law also requires water districts to perform tests on their water supply and systems to make sure they aren’t too stressed.
LIBs tend to stink. This is therefore good for them. There will be less pressure to be clean and presentable.
California Uber Alles.
Great, another two million people moving to Texas!
I think they should limit sex, because you have to take a shower afterwards.
There, that will do it....
102 comments if anyone cares to scan thru them.
Instead of supporting Mexico, build a desalination plant or two..or four!
Our Soviet California Assembly has said “No Water For You”.
Governor and Supreme Leader Jerry Brown will create the Department of Neighborhood Water Spying.
Armed with drones they will arrest miscreants who take twice daily showers or who allow Slip’n Slides in their backyard.
Anyone wanna give odds whether this will apply to Zuckerberg or his fellow Silicon Valley aristocrats? Or to Beverly Hills?
Utter insanity.
this new Californication law is UNNECESSARY
Hundreds of thousands of Californicators are ALREADY not showering and already do not flush toilets,
they just sheet on the streets and trains and buses of San FranShitCo and Los Smogeles.... anyway
Well, at least the homeless camps will remain unaffected.
“A new law passed in California will soon limit the number of gallons of water a person is allowed to use per day. “
Posted in three previous threads. FALSE.
imagine if those millions of illegals got sent back home, and then think how much more water, less electricity being needed, less traffic, less pollution there would be.
eeewwww! Who is your girlfriend?
Ah, Mexizuela.
Land of the Google and home of the illegal.
Attention U-Haul, Penske, Budget, Ryder, et al:
THERE IS A GROWING NEED FOR RENTAL TRUCKS IN CALIFORNIA. BEAT THE RUSH. BE THE TRUCK FOLKS USE TO MOVE OUT OF CALIFORNIA!!
And they keep voting for democrats. No matter how much they enslave themselves, they will not learn.
But still unlimited immigration.
I’d rather deal with the snow in PA than the totalitarian lunatics in CA.
Not even a contest.
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