Posted on 06/05/2018 8:55:28 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
California Governor Jerry Brown just signed a draconian new law that makes it illegal to take a shower, and do laundry on the same day:
Assembly Bill 1668 establishes a limit of 55 gallons per person daily as the standard for indoor residential water use, starting in the year 2022. Violators will have to pay a fine of $1,000 per day during normal seasons and $10,000 per day if “the violation occurs in a critically dry year immediately preceded by two or more consecutive below normal, dry, or critically dry years,” the law states.
According to the attentive folks at The Organic Prepper, this allotted water ration exceeds the amount required for taking a shower and doing a single load of laundry and excludes taking baths altogether.
Writer Daisy Luther notes that an ordinary load of laundry uses about 40 gallons of water, while an eight-minute shower uses some 17 gallons of water. A bathtub holds 80 to 100 gallons of water. This means combining a shower and laundry on the same day would use 57 gallons of water, two gallons above the limit.
According to the new law, the 55-gallon per person limit will be reduced even further in future years, dropping to 52.5 gallons per capita in 2025 and just 50 gallons per person in 2030.
To ensure compliance, the government of California urges the use of creative surveillance systems to spy on all residents. Utility providers will be obligated to report on violators, and urban retail water suppliers “shall use satellite imagery, site visits, or other best available technology to develop an accurate estimate of landscaped areas.”
So as not to overburden the wealthy, there will be “provisions for swimming pools, spas, and other water features,” the law states.
The new, more aggressive mandatory water use levels set by the State Water Resources Control Board in coordination with the Department of Water Resources establish the initial indoor water allowance of 55 gallons per person per day and will also set an outdoor residential amount as well as a standard for system wide pipe leak losses.
This new law is ridiculous and will turn most honest, law abiding residents of California into lawbreakers.
Even worse, the drought has technically ended in California, so these restrictions make no sense based on current conditions.
If the politicians who run the state really wanted to solve the problem they would have limited the amount of grass homeowners can plant, and ban swimming pools.
Instead they come up with stupid rules, designed to harm those who can least afford it.
California Über Alles.
This can’t be serious.
Assuming it is serious.
“...illegal to take a shower, and do laundry on the same day...”
Stinky or clean - your choice.
the law requires people to wear their clothes while bathing, thereby conserving water by “double-dipping” —?
Atlas Shrugged
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Indeed.
You will always be welcome in the public library no matter how much you stink!
Back when I was a single guy living in California, I used to shower in my underwear so I could soap down and do my laundry at the same time. Then I would remove it and rinse off while wringing it out.
But then they would have to pay the Exodus excise tax.
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Oh, yes, there’s no hope.
HEY STUPID:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/israel-proves-the-desalination-era-is-here/
People are dumb about doing their laundry, too. I never run a load unless I have a full load - only wash in warm if clothes are REALLY filthy, then use a cold rinse.
I do whites last and leave the machine lid open so it fills, but goes no further. They soak overnight, I finish the load in the morning, again, rinsing in cold - they are sparkling clean and bright!
We have a well and plenty of cool, clear, clean water - BUT it’s just silly to waste resources when you don’t have to.
It’s also silly to build a city/state ON ARID LAND and then expect people to NOT use up all the water. Talk about creating your own problems down the road!
*Rolleyes*
“So as not to overburden the wealthy, there will be “provisions for swimming pools, spas, and other water features,””
Turd, meet punchbowl.
-PJ
Californians, now.
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simple, shower with your clothes on. problem solved.
Desalination used to be an expensive energy hog, but the kind of advanced technologies being employed at Sorek have been a game changer. Water produced by desalination costs just a third of what it did in the 1990s. Sorek can produce a thousand liters of drinking water for 58 cents. Israeli households pay about US$30 a month for their water — similar to households in most U.S. cities, and far less than Las Vegas (US$47) or Los Angeles (US$58).
The article is BS.
The limits of water use are not aimed at individual households, but rather water districts.
When I travel I wash my clothes when I shower, the shampoo acts as the laundry detergent.
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