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Drought: Water Savers Fined, Rich Get Free Reign

BreitbartCA: The number of penalties issued to water wasters during California’s record drought has decreased as most water agencies have successfully complied with a mandatory order to cut water use by 25 percent statewide.

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However, the state’s complex water management system has created a scenario in which individuals who have cut back the most are often fined, while rich super-users pay to consume as much water as they want.

The latest report from the State Water Resources Control Board indicates that statewide compliance and enforcement actions issued against water wasters dropped from 92,868 in August to 77,763 in September, as the state exceeded Gov. Jerry Brown’s mandatory cutback target for a fourth straight month.

But the decrease in issued penalties is of little comfort to Apple Valley resident Debbie Alberts, who, despite having cut her water use by more than half this year, told the New York Times that she pays hefty “drought surcharges” on a water bill that can routinely reach hundreds of dollars. Alberts’s last bill included a surcharge of nearly $80, putting the total bill above $330.  read more

12 Comments on Drought: Water Savers Fined, Rich Get Free Reign

  1. That’s how I feel living in Minnesota. Not quite so bad as CA because our mentally deficient Governor has to fight some in our congress to get what he wants. But I’ll almost guarantee that we will be stuck with the max amount of ethanol in our gas as soon as it’s available. Dayton is some special kind of stupid.

    I feel for you, California.

  2. We never had water problems when I lived in that socialist dictatorship. But it was still controlled by Americans back then.

    I pay nothing for water now. In the process of cleaning out two 330 gallon totes right now, which are currently full of clean rain water. Tomorrow I will empty them out and I predict that they will be full of rain water again by Thursday night.

    In regards to the water that will be drained out on the ground, I offer a special discount for Californians this week: only $16 per gallon, plus shipping and handling. 🙂 And no fluoride. Imagine that if you can.

  3. It’s the thinner, more flexible plastics that leech chemical into water when they are heated. Most cities use plastic water delivery lines.

    My water is cleaner than what you can buy in the store:

    Removal capabilities as follows:
    >99% Arsenic 5 and 99% Arsenic 3 (special order)
    >99% Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S)
    >95% Chlorine and Chloramines
    >99% Taste
    >99% Odor
    >98% Aluminum
    >96% Iron
    >98% Lead
    >90% Pesticides
    >85% Herbicides
    >85% Insecticides
    >90% Rodenticides
    >85% Phenols
    >85% MTBE
    >85% Perchlorate
    >80% Trihalomethanes
    >95% Poly Aromatic Hydrocarbons
    >99.999% of particles larger than 0.5 micron (Staffordshire University Labs) (includes Anthrax)
    >99.7% of particles larger than 0.3 micron (Staffordshire University Labs)
    >98% of particles larger than 0.2 micron (Staffordshire University Labs)
    >100% Giardia Lamblia
    >100% Cyclospora
    >100% removal of live Cryptosporidium (WRc Standard)
    >100% removal of Cryptosporidium (NSF Standard 53 – A.C. fine dust – 4 log challenge)
    >100% removal of E. Coli, Vibrio Cholerae (Johns Hopkins University)
    >99.999% removal of Salmonella Typhil, Shigella Dysenteria, Kiebsiella Terrigena (Hyder Labs)

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