So NOW will California conserve water ? (more pic)

Solution number one is late but sound. Two and three..... form agencies and task forces. Typical. The bastards are doomed.
 
I'm so confused. Wasn't global warming supposed to raise water levels due to all the melting of the ice caps?
 
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Originally posted by GeorgeKohler

I'm so confused. Wasn't global warming supposed to raise water levels due to all the melting of the ice caps?

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I'm certainly not an expert or "xxx oligist" of any kind, and I don't want an argument about politicians input on the whole warming thing, BUT the melting issue from what I have read is from the polar ice cap regions. Looks like the issue out west is a lack of precip in the mountsins which melt and feed the streams / rivers / feed the lakes.

Here in the midwest (southern Indiana, Ky, Illinois) the Ohio River is out of it's banks, which is the major water feed to the Great Mississippi River.
It (we) are getting all the snow melt from the NE which saw record snowfall in Jan + all the rain we're experienced last week.

Location, location, location. . .
 
When I start seeing pictures of empty swimming pools and lawns with dead grass I'll believe California will start conserving.

Bob
 
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Originally posted by rnbenton

When I start seeing pictures of empty swimming pools and lawns with dead grass I'll believe California will start conserving.

Bob

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Don't forget the dirty limos and exotic cars.
 
I've heard from a CA co-worker that driving a nice car, that's dirty, is the 'in'thing to do these days.
 
Here in Bermuda very few homes are connected to any sort of city water. We rely on rainwater channeled from our roofs to a tank underneath each of our homes. I have a capacity to store of something like 30,000gal. Each house has its own pressure system consisting of a shallow well type pump & a pressure tank. Most years we do OK getting an average of near 60" of rain. We don't water lawns. For most car washing means a bucket & a hose. Do it yourself.

When water is short a sign might be posted at the toilet. "If it is pee, let it be. If it is brown, flush it down."

It is quite remarkable how much water we use everyday. Onboard the boat we went through 12 gal of water per person per day without being very conservation minded. We used seawater for flushng.
 
Veebyes,
A few weeks ago, on NCIS LA, at the end of the show when everyone was joking around, One of the guys made a comment similar to "If it is pee, let it be. If it is brown, flush it down.". The black actor said something like 'How gross", and it was repeated by some of the other actors. This is the attitude of Southern California. Last great drought we had, The news showed Golf and clubs filling lakes for new golf course's and watering the massive lawns in southern California.

When Southern California finally 'Gets the Picture', It'll be much too little, much too late, as always.
 
"Let it be"? Back in the 70's we said, "If it's yellow, let it mellow, brown flush it down". That also means, nothing new here in CA.
 
"If it's yellow, let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down"
ha ha Dustin Hoffman's line in "Meet the Fockers"
 
And in 10 years when the rain is coming down they'll be worrying about floating away.
 
Lets all hope it's not 10 years before the rain starts coming down, but I guess that's kinda the point of the drought fears being long term as it could last decades.
 
Greg,
Yup, that was the saying. I've been flushing accordingly since they built a water pipe across the Richmond/San Rafael Bridge to water Marin county. My washing machine drains to a 55 Gal holding tank to water the garden. I also have a well.

At the start of this most recent drought, There was an official sounding warning on the news stating the dangers of using bath water for anything but going down the sewer. There have always been newbies that talk otta their azz because they haven't experienced life. This also goes to wars and the liberals that think it's so bad to not think as they do.
 
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