Watering during the draught

[wburg]

Originally Posted by vision33r

Spending water from elsewhere just to keep your dessert oasis? Good luck, it's possible this drought will last a hundred year.

Sorry, I think you meant to post this in the Los Angeles forum.

[caligirlz]

Originally Posted by Bulldogdad

And they make us feel guilty by trying to keep a little green around our homes which actually helps the environment. My street is turning into a sea of brown with neighbors staring each other down to see who will water first. Then you get the water nazi neighbors patrolling the streets at all hours looking for someone to turn in.

Actual conversation this morning.

That's funny!

I started watering again. Designated days, 5 minutes in the evening to both front & back yards. I have a huge shade tree in my front yard, so I definitely want to save it.

[NickB1967]

Originally Posted by wburg

Sorry, I think you meant to post this in the Los Angeles forum.

Did he? Perhaps taking the beam out of your own NorCal eye would help....

"We suffer in California from a particular form of progressive immorality predicated on insular selfishness. The water supplies of Los Angeles and the Bay Area are still for a year longer in good shape, despite the four-year drought. Neither area is self-sufficient in water; their aquifers are marginal and only supply a fraction of their daily needs. Instead these megalopolises depend on intricate and expensive water transfer systems — from Northern California, from the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and from the Colorado River — that bring water and life to quite unnatural habitats and thereby allow a MGM or Facebook to thrive in an arid landscape that otherwise would not support such commerce and population. Without them, Atherton would look like Porterville."

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