State Water board votes to destroy California's green communities (2015, apartments)

[GoldenZephyr]

Emergency 25% cut in California cities' water use approved - LA Times

The state water board voted to force the arbitrary 25% cuts aimed only at residential and business users that account for less than 10% of the water in the state.

Water board staff scientist Max Gomberg said California residents and businesses used only 3.6% less water in March than they did during the same month in 2013, the baseline year for savings calculations.

The baseline should look at 1990-2000 levels of consumption. There has been a tremendous amount of work done to save water by communities. Per capita use is down substantially, there isn't much more to cut, except cut down all things green, which of course the leftists want to do.

“We need to do more,” Gomberg said.

More?!?! Notice not ONE DROP of restriction for Alfalfa or Almond farmers. NOT ONE DROP for agriculture. They'd rather kill every tree in every city before but one Almond exported to China is lost. Absurd. I've heard it said before that the "green" movement was a death cult, this proves it for me. They love destruction, suffering, and death. They haven't done anything that would actually make a significant impact on the water issue, they've focused all their energy on a very tiny percentage of water that comes at a great deal of suffering for many people. Why? I can only conclude because it is political and ideological. It certainly isn't rational.

You watch video from the hearings, you can see the swell of pleasure these leftists get from imposing tyranny on all those "bad" communities. They are in rapturous ecstasy at the thought of sticking it to communities and making them barren.

Never mind that water use is down SUBSTANTIALLY since 1990 on a per capita basis. Leftists want to punish, create suffering, and destruction.

If they cared about water use, they would have hit agriculture, especially, Alfalfa, Almonds, and Pistachios. Instead, they are aimed squarely at the middle class which they hate with a passion.

[vision33r]

Gotta keep the cash crops going.

[Des-Lab]

Correct. If you're a farmer, a golf course, a municipality, or if the assessed value of your home exceeds seven digits, then these rules simply don't apply to you. For all this talk about "shared efforts" and "sacrifice", the reality is that the "sacrifice" will be dumped squarely and entirely into the lap of the suburban middle class homeowners only. After all, they make the easiest target. Also, since Gov Brown despises that demographic, is anyone really surprised that he is sticking it to them with yet another punitive, regressive law that he passed almost entirely out of raw vindictive spite? Nobody in their right mind should be supporting his saber rattling rhetoric. Unless of course you are one of the exempted classes above or an angry, disgruntled renter who wants a home but has been priced out of the market.

[909er]

Told Ya! And it's not stopping here, we are going to conserve precious water down to drops. Every citizen needs to do their part, and lawns are now the first to go.

[GoldenZephyr]

Originally Posted by 909er

Told Ya! And it's not stopping here, we are going to conserve precious water down to drops. Every citizen needs to do their part, and lawns are now the first to go.

Except we're not actually conserving, it's a charade. 95% of the water is untouched. Anyone who thinks this is conservation only proves themselves to be a philistine.

Philistines love ugly, hate beauty. Philistines applaud ham fisted tyrannies.

The wealthy will still have their lawns, your jealousy and irrational hatred of beauty will do nothing to hurt money, only those with lesser means.

Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

[909er]

Then let them pay their fines with their money.

They will be suppressed, as will you. I told you I was going to call the state, and i did, my efforts are working. All you can do is pay more. Have fun.

[V8 Vega]

But they continue to allow houses, apartments, and townhouses to be built.

[GoldenZephyr]

Originally Posted by 909er

Then let them pay their fines with their money.

They will be suppressed, as will you. I told you I was going to call the state, and i did, my efforts are working. All you can do is pay more. Have fun.

Obvious troll post, the state did nothing based on you or what you said. I don't even think you actually believe it, you're just getting your jollies trolling.

"Suppressed"? just an envious bitter person who hates freedom, beauty and aesthetics. A person who lives tyranny, by your own words. Jealous of those whi have built civilization and seek to destroy because of an inability to build.

Enjoy the dust heap in the 909

[MordinSolus]

Restrictions really need to be placed an how and how much water big agro is using. There are dozens of fields in Central California that are flooded but nothing is planted there. The farmers are just using their allotted water so they don't get a smaller allotment in a few years. Then all of the crops that use massive amounts of water but yield tiny profits need to be regulated as well. Alfalfa is a feed crop and not even a good one so why is more than 10% of the state's water being used to grow it?

[CALGUY]

Not that it will make much difference, this is a copy of the email I sent to the board yesterday.




To all board members.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know California is in a very serious water crisis.
Conservation is minimal at best in solving this crisis.
New sources of water are the only thing that is going to let California survive this crisis now, and into the future.

Desalinization of the oceans water is one alternative, and yet there is one other, and the board has failed miserably to at leaste study the feasibility of building a pipeline from the state of Alaska to the desert southwest.
California is not the only state suffering from lack of water.
All of the southwest is in this, along with California.
In the early seventies this was proposed by then governor Hickel of Alaska, and local , and the state boards turned a blind eye.

Had they acted on that proposal back then, we would not be where we are today with the current water crisis.
Governor Hickel had plans drawn up, and knew exactly what rivers in his state would be the source of the water supply for California.
The board seemed to have no interest in the proposal.
I say it is high time the members of the water resources board look seriously at this proposal, before the state runs out of water.

It is more than obvious to me, and many people of California that government officials, including the governor, have their priorities mixed up.
We need a bullet train like I need four legs.
The money spent on that ridiculous train could be better spent making sure California has adequate water for its people in years ahead.
Without water, there will be no people living in the state, and who would be riding this bullet train then?
Get with it people.

You have been given the responsibility of managing water in the state, and the time is now, to act on legislation that will guarantee water for the state, long into the future.
You really need to look into this pipe line.
I know it won’t be built over night ,nor perhaps in my lifetime , as I am pushing eighty, but for generation that follow, there needs to be adequate water to sustain life.