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.
Another compelling reason to NEVER live in California.
Help! We need to build a wall to keep Californians OUT of Colorado!
Either that, or just don’t wear clothes.
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.
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Highly misleading statement (the whole article is deceptive). The fines will go against water districts, not individuals. The limit is per person and an average, not a per day limit, so a person can still do laundry and take a shower on the same day.
>Who doesn’t shower EVERY day?
Just shower outside. Problem solved.
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How would showering outside solve the problem?
This can’t be serious.
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The article is fake news. See my post above.
I stand corrected: After last season’s epic precipitation, then the “Miracle March” that saved us this season, I was telling people that the Governor didn’t have an excuse for imposing further restrictions. I was wrong. I guess the tyrants decided they don’t need excuses to restrict
Liberty anymore; they just issue proclamations
“So as not to overburden the wealthy, there will be “provisions for swimming pools, spas, and other water features,” the law states.”
So you get a thousand dollar fine if you do laundry and shower on the same day. Meanwhile Mitt Romney, Elon Musk, or Barbara Streisand can have an infinity pool at their oceanside property, and have a roman statue of a winged cherub pissing into the pool 24/7.
Got it.
You are a genius! Where do we get such people!
Hairy Butt Crack Avenue...
I have famously huge turds
LOL............
How do utility companies know how many people live in a home?
The rationing is not fair or equal because all of the libs seldom take showers.
“We need to build a wall to keep Californians OUT of Colorado!”
Too late. The majority of idiots here in Colorado are liberals.
When people reach a certain age they don’t need to and really shouldn’t shower everyday.
Activity and glandular secretions are less after a certain age. It can really dry out the skin too.
Of course no two bodies are the same so some people may actually need to shower daily.
What do you think they did in the days before running water? Only the very rich could afford servants to bring water in by the bucket to heat up for baths.
Remember don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater? That was a real thing. Everyone used the same bucket of water to bathe out of.
EYE WASH NEEDED! Yikes!
Same with AZ. Even the good right wing folks need an adjustment period to get their heads on straight. Say; 2 years. Years of subliminal indoctrination from billboards to radio takes a toll that needs to be unlearned.
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