In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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The giant Metropolitan Water District imposed first-ever restrictions today. Some suppliers in Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties will limit watering of lawns to once a week to ease the burden on the drought-stricken state aqueduct.
Unprecedented water restrictions are in store for about 6 million Southern Californians, a sign of deepening drought in counties that depend on water piped from the state’s parched reservoirs.
The Metropolitan Water District’s board voted unanimously today to require six major water providers and the dozens of cities and local districts they supply to impose one of two options: limit residents to outdoor watering once a week or reduce total water use below a certain target.
The water providers must have plans to police their customers, and if they fail to impose the restrictions, they could face fines of $2,000 for every extra acre-foot of water that exceeds their monthly allocation limits, starting in June, according to Metropolitan.
The restrictions target parts of Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties that rely heavily on water from drought-stricken Northern California rivers transported south via the State Water Project.
“At this time, a third of our region, 6 million Southern Californians in parts of Los Angeles, Ventura, San Bernardino counties, face a very real and immediate water stress challenge,” said Metropolitan Water District General Manager Adel Hagekhalil. “Today these areas rely on extremely limited supplies from Northern California. And there is not enough supply available to meet the normal demands in these areas.”
Cutting back outdoor watering to one day a week would be a big change for the arid, densely populated areas, where many people irrigate their lawns and gardens.
Southern Californians have heard for decades about the dangers of drought, but per-person residential water use has increased in the past two years, despite the severe drought. Experts say conservation wavers in the region because restrictions are largely voluntary — and their water never seems to run out.
“This is insane but not unexpected,” Peter Kraut, a council member from the San Fernando Valley city of Calabasas told the Metropolitan board, which is composed of 38 city and local district officials. “I’m appalled that a change this drastic is happening in such a short period of time.”
“This plan will result not just in brown grass but in killing countless trees. The damage to our environment will take decades to repair,” Kraut added.
Today’s mandate is the first outdoor watering restriction imposed by the giant water-import agency, which supplies 19 million people in California. More stringent restrictions may come later, Metropolitan officials warned: The water providers must also prepare to ban all outdoor watering as early as September, if necessary, as California suffers one of its driest periods on record.
The six affected water suppliers are Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Las Virgenes Municipal Water District, Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District and Three Valleys Municipal Water District — all in Los Angeles County — and the Calleguas Municipal Water District in Ventura County and the Inland Empire Utilities Agency in San Bernardino County.
About 13 million other Southern Californians are unaffected by the order because they aren’t as dependent on water imported via the State Water Project. They receive imports from the Colorado River, which largely are sent to Orange, San Diego and Imperial counties.
Metropolitan has been working to increase the number of customers who can receive Colorado River water to reduce reliance on the hard-pressed state aqueduct. The Colorado River, however, also is facing extreme drought, and deliveries to California, Nevada and Arizona are being cut back under an agreement signed by the states in December.
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Funny. I was certain that was a Ted-Post until I scrolled up.
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The giant Metropolitan Water District imposed first-ever restrictions today...
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Sierra snowpack worsens, falls to lowest level in 7 years
The April snowpack, key to how much water flows into reservoirs, is 38% of average statewide, proving that drought hasn’t relaxed its grip on California.
by Rachel Becker
April 1, 2022
Newsom imposes new California water restrictions — leaves details to locals
Still resisting statewide water rationing for parched California, Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking local suppliers to tighten water limits.
by Rachel Becker
March 28, 2022
https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/04/southern-california-conserv
e-water/
JSF: Funny how you claim no politics in garden, then post this crap.
At least CA is successfully able to divert their supply of freshwater directly to the Ocean, which is extremely important to Libtards.
Funny how you manage to be such an ass. This isn't about politics, this is about RAIN!!! ... which, you might have noticed, is what the thread is about.
Only YOU could turn an article about weather and drought into a political issue! If you lived in an agricultural state and there was a shortage of fertilizer that affected you, personally, would you consider that to be a "political" issue?
You really should do something about your hyper aggression, JSF. There must be something missing from your diet to affect you so badly.
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Quote:Funny how you manage to be such an ass. This isn't about politics, this is about RAIN!!! ... which, you might have noticed, is what the thread is about.
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SignyM:Quote:
The giant Metropolitan Water District imposed first-ever restrictions today...
****
Sierra snowpack worsens, falls to lowest level in 7 years
The April snowpack, key to how much water flows into reservoirs, is 38% of average statewide, proving that drought hasn’t relaxed its grip on California.
by Rachel Becker
April 1, 2022
Newsom imposes new California water restrictions — leaves details to locals
Still resisting statewide water rationing for parched California, Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking local suppliers to tighten water limits.
by Rachel Becker
March 28, 2022
https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/04/southern-california-conserv
e-water/
JSF: Funny how you claim no politics in garden, then post this crap.
At least CA is successfully able to divert their supply of freshwater directly to the Ocean, which is extremely important to Libtards.
Only YOU could turn an article about weather and drought into a political issue! If you lived in an agricultural state and there was a shortage of fertilizer that affected you, personally, would you consider that to be a "political" issue?
You really should do something about your hyper aggression, JSF. There must be something missing from your diet to affect you so badly.
Why do you insist on being an ass?
You post an article about how California has politically mismanaged it's water resources, for decades, (including flushing it's freshwater supply directly into the Ocean - which is scientifically known to be saltwater) and proclaim that it is NOT about California's political mismanagement of water resources. You claim that CA is the only state which needs rain. Not Nevada, Arizona, or Mexico, or any of the other 47 States in USA.
I live in Wisconsin. It is an agricultural state, as are many states, far more than CA is. Wine grapes don't feed livestock. WI is nicknamed America's Dairyland. Rolling hills full of corn, although not as much as flat Iowa. America's #1 producer of hemp for the War Effort of WWII. I've heard that Dane County is the most agriculturally productive county in the nation.
Just because you think that cultivating ghettos, Watts, Libtard Universities, Fagrot, spoiled professional athletes, and some movies equates to being agricultural does not make it so. The water those endeavors stole was actually going to the ag valleys, before you diverted it.
Since you seem to have not noticed, it was Libtards who decided that WEATHER was a political issue, inventing Global Climate Warming Change. That was not me who turned the politization of weather into politics.
Stop being such an ass, and pull your head out of your ass. Your mismanagement of your own water resources is due to your horrid governance, due to your perennial Fraudulent Stolen Elections.
Stick to your fauna and Flora, not how you politically mistreat them and starve them.
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Dude... Come on.
That was only posted because I made a joking remark that I wish I could send some of the water from our extremely excessive downpours in my area her way.
You're the one bringing politics and an argument into the garden right now.
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Quote:Please re-read the article. That's not what it's about
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The giant Metropolitan Water District imposed first-ever restrictions today...
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Sierra snowpack worsens, falls to lowest level in 7 years
The April snowpack, key to how much water flows into reservoirs, is 38% of average statewide, proving that drought hasn’t relaxed its grip on California.
by Rachel Becker
April 1, 2022
Newsom imposes new California water restrictions — leaves details to locals
Still resisting statewide water rationing for parched California, Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking local suppliers to tighten water limits.
by Rachel Becker
March 28, 2022
https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/04/southern-california-conserv
e-water/
JSF: Funny how you claim no politics in garden, then post this crap.
At least CA is successfully able to divert their supply of freshwater directly to the Ocean, which is extremely important to Libtards.
SIGNY:
Funny how you manage to be such an ass. This isn't about politics, this is about RAIN!!! ... which, you might have noticed, is what the thread is about.
Only YOU could turn an article about weather and drought into a political issue! If you lived in an agricultural state and there was a shortage of fertilizer that affected you, personally, would you consider that to be a "political" issue?
You really should do something about your hyper aggression, JSF. There must be something missing from your diet to affect you so badly.
JSF: Why do you insist on being an ass?
You post an article about how California has politically mismanaged it's water resources, for decades,
Quote:ALSO not in the article!
(including flushing it's freshwater supply directly into the Ocean -
Quote:ALSO not in the article! In fact, it mentions that Colorado River water (which, you may recall, flows thru MANY states) is also over-allocated.
which is scientifically known to be saltwater) and proclaim that it is NOT about California's political mismanagement of water resources. You claim that CA is the only state which needs rain. Not Nevada, Arizona, or Mexico, or any of the other 47 States in USA.
Quote:California is THE BIGGEST agricultural state, https://usabynumbers.com/states-ranked-by-agricultural-production/ and California's biggest crop is ... hay. You have SERIOUS ignorance of CA.
I live in Wisconsin. It is an agricultural state, as are many states, far more than CA is.
Quote:CA has a seriously large dairy industry.
Wine grapes don't feed livestock.
Quote:Agriculture uses 80pct of CA's water
WI is nicknamed America's Dairyland. Rolling hills full of corn, although not as much as flat Iowa. America's #1 producer of hemp for the War Effort of WWII.
Just because you think that cultivating ghettos, Watts, Libtard Universities, Fagrot, and some movies equates to being agricultural does not make it so. The water those endeavors stole was actually going to the ag valleys, before you diverted it.
https://water.ca.gov/Programs/Water-Use-And-Efficiency/Agricultural-Wa
ter-Use-Efficiency and heavy industry uses another 10 pct. Having done stack testing in the LA area, I can tell you from experience there is a lot of unrecognized heavy industry here, from oil wells to refineries to cement kilns to coker plants to steel making, foundries, glass plants, aerospace, plating...
And the entire central CA is agriculture: hay, fresh produce, dairy, fruit, alfalfa etc etc which... as you should recall... uses 80pct of available water resources.
Your hyper-focus on cities misses the BIG picture of CA.
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Stop being such an ass, and pull your head out of your ass. Your mismanagement of your own water resources is due to your horrid governance, due to your perennial Fraudulent Stolen Elections.
Stick to your fauna and Flora, not how you politically mistreat them and starve them.
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I remember the sun.
It has been so long since I have seen it now though, that sometimes I think it's only something that I imagined. A wonderful dream, perhaps? Possibly something I once saw in an old Sci-Fi movie when I was but a small child?
Tell me about the sun, Brenda! I implore you!
I do not want to forget!
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It's this big, bright ball of light. High up in the sky. It's yellow in colour and when its rays fall on the earth they are warm.
Yes! That's it. That's exactly as I remembered it!
Oh somebody please take me there, so I can see it once more with my own eyes!
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I am sure that it will make an appearance in your area soon. Or if you have plane fare.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I remember the sun.
It has been so long since I have seen it now though, that sometimes I think it's only something that I imagined. A wonderful dream, perhaps? Possibly something I once saw in an old Sci-Fi movie when I was but a small child?
Tell me about the sun, Brenda! I implore you!
I do not want to forget!
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
It's this big, bright ball of light. High up in the sky. It's yellow in colour and when its rays fall on the earth they are warm.
Yes! That's it. That's exactly as I remembered it!
Oh somebody please take me there, so I can see it once more with my own eyes!
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
I am sure that it will make an appearance in your area soon. Or if you have plane fare.
BUT I WANT IT NOOOOOOWWWWWWW!
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Wish I could give you some!!
Helped hubby change the filters on our demand hot water heater, which should have been changed over a year ago.
There was a SERIOUS amount of mud in the bottom of the pre-heater filter!
Curiously, there is a water well not one mile from our house! (Our fair city operates exclusively on well -water.) I've noticed a curious structure on a small piece of land between two lots ... like a small garage. I've always wondered what it was. I thought maybe a small gas-pumping substation. But one day on my way grocery shopping, I noticed a huge flood of water and a bunch of workers on-site. Turns out they had to "refresh" the well bore by re-drilling it and pumping it out. That probably accounts for the mud.
Interestingly, they do the same for old oilfields. The well bore looks like a giant metal tube, slotted to let oil in. As oil seeps to the slots it carries sand and minerals, and the slots eventually clog up. When the price of oil is high enuf, they re-drill the tube to re-open the slots. Sometimes they inject water to "wash" the oil out of the ground and use oil-water separators to collect the oil, and recycle the water back underground. One of those operations only gets about 2pct oil, but it's still economic to run
All kinds of interesting things going on we don't even know about that keep things humming along.
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lol wow...
I don't have any sort of filter. Wonder what would have happened to my already sketch water heater that probably should be replaced sooner than later.
You should check out this channel if you're interested in how things we take for granted work.
After watching this video, I remember thinking how dumb the reason I thought water towers existed was, and how childlike a mentality you'd have to have about them to even reason out that this was what their purpose was.
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