In the news, mandatory 25% water conservation in California

[Yuptag]

Originally Posted by MJ7

It is true, but one we need to live, the other we don't need. No one needs grass in their yards as much as they do food. I wouldn't be surprised if CA started to limit farmers to acreage if it gets bad enough.

The kind of crops grown in CA, like almonds (which are extremely water intensive), are just wrong. By exempting ag from any new requirements and putting the burden on residential users simply encourages ag from shirking any kind of responsibility, whether social or market.

If I lived in CA, I would not conserve until ag was forced to share the burden.

[ringwise]

Originally Posted by xeric

I'm surprised that so many people are assuming that the 25% cutback will apply across the board to people who are very thrifty as well as those who are wasteful. I can't imagine any city doing that - rather, I think they will target the water spendthrifts and try to bring them in line with what their more conservation-minded neighbors have already done. Also, it's my understanding that the 25% cutback requirement does not apply universally to all cities in the state. Rather, some cities have a smaller conservation requirement because they have already significantly reduced their per-capita water use.

Don't be surprised, because CA will apply the 25% across the board. They've done it before, and I was screwed because of it. CA has no incentive to take into consideration who is already conserving or not. They just don't care.

[sholomar]

I do my part by never watering my lawn. Nobody in my immediate family waters their lawns we just let them turn brown in the summer or in my mother's case, her 3-4 feet of topsoil on her acreage means her lawn never turns brown.. at worst it simply stops growing as fast but still stays green even in mild droughts.

A true progressive would not be watering their lawn and wasting gas to mow it more often. You're not a true liberal if you water and mow large swaths of lawn unless you're using grey water and an electric mower.

I'm not even liberal and I just let er turn brown. I do keep the sidewalk edged though and do my best to keep weeds from taking the lawn over.

[tel0004]

Originally Posted by stockwiz

I do my part by never watering my lawn. Nobody in my immediate family waters their lawns we just let them turn brown in the summer or in my mother's case, her 3-4 feet of topsoil on her acreage means her lawn never turns brown.. at worst it simply stops growing as fast but still stays green even in mild droughts.

A true progressive would not be watering their lawn and wasting gas to mow it more often. You're not a true liberal if you water and mow large swaths of lawn unless you're using grey water and an electric mower.

I'm not even liberal and I just let er turn brown. I do keep the sidewalk edged though and do my best to keep weeds from taking the lawn over.

I think it depends on where you live. One should not water their lawn in California, but there is plenty of water in Ohio, so water away if thats what you want to do.