Dangerous: Democrat California Governor Jerry Brown signed a water-rationing law that limits citizens’ indoor water usage to less than what is required to take a shower and do laundry on the same day.
The new law, Assembly Bill 1668, set to take effect in 2022, enforces daily residential restrictions of 55 gallons of water per person. Those who violate the water rations will pay fines of $1,000 a day during non-drought seasons and up to $10,000 a day if “the violation occurs in a critically dry year immediately preceded by two or more consecutive below normal, dry, or critically dry years,” according to the law.
According to analysis from The Organic Prepper, an eight-minute shower uses roughly 17 gallons of water and a single load of laundry about 40 gallons, making it two gallons over California’s new limit.
Prepping in the Golden State will soon mean stockpiles of deodorant and Febreeze. more
Fine, I’ll just shower with my clothes on, as I often do when sloppy drunk anyway.
Are the no knock police going to smell your armpits on laundry day?
Maybe just shower while still dressed and kill two birds with one stone. Insanity
Well, we’re two problem solvers!
So, they’re implying that many Californians bath every day?
Whodathunk?
Folsom Lake is at full pool, Shasta is 118% of normal for the year, I believe Oroville is above average to. He’s trying to justify his water tax.
In addition to all the other kinds of stupid this idea is, it is also stupid for picking a stupid time interval for measuring the stupid ration use rate. One stupid DAY? And, stupidly, they don’t say whether that stupid day is counted midnight-to-midnight, noon-to-noon, or some other stupid end point.
And it makes a difference. If it’s midnight, you could do laundry at 11:00 p.m. and when that’s done take your shower at 12:30 a.m. in a different stupid rationing “day”.
Stupid Californumbskulls.
And how do you handle house guests? Say your in-laws visit for two weeks: parents and six stupid kids. Is there a stupid bureaucrat or stupid administrative law “judge” you have to whine and grovel in front of to get a stupid pardoned over-use?
From the Golden State to the Smelly State with the stroke of a pen.
This law gives a whole new meaning to “Shower With A Friend”.
California requires utility controlled thermostats, to prevent brown-outs they will just cut back on your electricity. Smart meters, ’nuff said.
The water bureaucrats will make people have smart water meters, they’ll know!
This sure won’t help with CA’s public urination and defecation problem. When a poorly timed toilet flush could cost you a grand or more, you’re likely to just step outside.
Why can’t the Government of California convert sea water to fresh water? The technology is available and could be in place by 2022. It would be more sensible than pissing away money on high speed trains to nowhere, bicycle paths, illegals etc. Just a thought.
Last fall my son’s bee suit needed a good cleaning. It gets moldy if you don’t get the honey off.
There are a few inherently fragile spots in the bee suit that prohibit machine washing. Mostly the screen parts and where they attach.
I needed a long shower after a long day so I sat in it and scrubbed the suit with a small brush and laundry detergent. Came clean, like usual, but I certainly didn’t save any water. lol.
I had no idea how dangerous it was to use laundry soap in the shower, though. You will have no traction at all if you try to stand up with some suds on the tub surface. I had to do a really good rinse job on the tub before I could even get out of it. That would be the first and last time I do that.
Including the tub rinse, probably the most water I ever used in a shower that didn’t include the wifey.
Unky for house guests you have to get special permission from the water police.
@Zonga –
I’ gonna start calling them “those stupid smart meters.”
California’s water crisis is contrived.
California’s water is practically given away to farmers that grow rice and various nuts for export to China.
California farmers are the ones that mostly introduced illegal aliens to California and fought for their normalization.
California farmers are the biggest parasites this state has after our illegal alien population.
If we imported all of our food from Mexico, it would still be better than importing the illegals and their families to work on these farms here.
They laid the serpent’s egg that has now hatched, so screw ’em.
“Why can’t the Government of California convert sea water to fresh water?”
Because Brown and the Libtards couldn’t use NorCals water resources against them like a weapon. We’ve paid for water desalination plant through out the Middle East. Probably a lot cheaper than his damn pet projects. Brown would rather go no where fast n his chu chu.
This will create a BIG business opportunity for modified rainwater collection systems which are also connected to water mains to premeasure daily consumption limits and guarantee that daily quotas are met. Any excess can be sold on the black market. Neighborhoods will wind up with PVC lines running between houses.
It’s strange they’re not concerned about my 22K gallon swimming pool.
Tom, they also don’t want to clutter up their beach front property with DE-SAL plants. I say exterminate ALL democRATs and Enviroweenies and start from scratch!
I read recently that South Africa is having a water crisis. A serious one. The Israelis have offered to do the De-Sal trick but the muslims
are refusing their help. What a phucked up world!
Brown must pay !
The first step toward telling you when you can Crap and Eat is here. I’ve heard if you get the Forehead Stamp, Water is free and endless.
The policy was developed in SF where they primarily take golden showers, hence the unrealistically low water ration.
Beverly Hills & Malibu will be exempted, of course.
Yet the state will pay no fines when it wastes thousands of gallons flushed into the ocean for the sake of the Delta Smelt, or to ensure that a river has enough flow for rafters to get a thrill.
As shown in an earlier iotwR post, Fla. has shown the way to the easy solution. Do laundry at home. Bath and shave your legs (if so inclined) at the public pool.
[Many days I wonder if I’m reading the news or reading some weird satire novel. ]
2022. Who are they banking on being elected?
This is the stuff of riots. When someone can’t make the fine, and a lot of normal people won’t be able to, and still stay clean enough for their tax-paying jobs, what’s the consequence? Liens? Property seizures? No renewal of a driver’s license or registration for the dread carbon-spewing car?
How’s that state of Jefferson looking?
P.S. Wonder who will get the contract for the inevitably newly mandated water meters for each home. I am sure the ones put in place by the PUC just won’t be up to snuff.
can’t wait ’till they slap those fines on all those Ho’Wood & Beverly Hills elites w/ all their parties, lawn sprinklers & water fountains …
yeah, like that’s gonna happen
If Calif. pulls this off the US Navy will have to find a new term for the wrong way to take a shower.
” In United States Navy parlance, the term “Hollywood shower” contrasts with a navy shower, referring to a long shower with very high water usage. “
Al, about the house gusts. Simply fill out and send in form 2BS022 and apply for a House Guest Permit ($250.00) and file for an ‘temporary easement’ on water restrictions ($250.00). The House Guests must attend mandatory Webinar ($250.00) for water use restrictions.
If accepted ($250.00) Guests must ‘clock in’ with local Water Officials ($250.00) and ‘clock out’ with local Water Officials ($250.00) at the end of their stay, and pay ‘water passed through’ tax ($250.00) on estimated water drank by Guests while in CA
So, if you hit a hydrant, they shoot you right there
All said, use less.
Conservationism – ‘Leave a simple foot print’.
That applies to many levels in life.
No?
They can kiss my ass and I told them so. Since January, I have reported numerous water leaks in the State park here. Park bathroom faucets running and dripping. Drinking fountains running water down the drain. The deer were using the fountain to drink from. Fed up with seeing the water being wasted, I emailed the head honcho at State Parks in Sacramento, and told them that they dare not tell the citizens of California to conserve water when they are wasting it – millions of gallons down the drain. I then mapped out all the leaks. Two days later, all the leaks were fixed. Screw’em I’ll use whenever and whatever. I don’t have a lawn like most do around me, nor a swimming pool, so it’s hot showers and clean clothes for me!
Got rid of my lawns in front and back years ago, and being in SoCal, our household conserves water to a reasonable degree already. When I read this news story the other day I thought, “How much more does the state want us to do?!”
So I checked my last few water bills to see where we stand with this new restriction and we are already below our future limit. We shower daily, wash clothes, dishes, cars, and carry on as normal people. I garden and irrigate select plants, most get by on their own.
For others, I am guessing people will reduce their lawn size or get rid of them altogether.
I am no fan of Brown or the left, but considering SoCal is an arid environment this does not sound extreme.
Are they going to shut down all of the car washes and ban washing your cars.
Wait until streams and ponds start to dry up and they find pumps and pipes leading to houses to supply water to their homes.
Geoff C. the Saltine