Posted on Apr 27, 2022
Millions must cut water use in drought-stricken California
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Southern California's gigantic water supplier took the unprecedented step Tuesday of requiring about 6 million people to cut their outdoor watering to one day a week as drought continues to plague the state.
The board of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California declared a water shortage emergency and required the cities and water agencies it supplies to implement the cutback on June 1 and enforce it or face hefty fines.
“We don’t have enough water supplies right now to meet normal demand. The water is not there,” Metropolitan Water District spokesperson Rebecca Kimitch said. “This is unprecedented territory. We've never done anything like this before."
Southern California's gigantic water supplier took the unprecedented step Tuesday of requiring about 6 million people to cut their outdoor watering to one day a week as drought continues to plague the state.
The board of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California declared a water shortage emergency and required the cities and water agencies it supplies to implement the cutback on June 1 and enforce it or face hefty fines.
“We don’t have enough water supplies right now to meet normal demand. The water is not there,” Metropolitan Water District spokesperson Rebecca Kimitch said. “This is unprecedented territory. We've never done anything like this before."
Millions must cut water use in drought-stricken California
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Gross water mismanagement. Not only do they not have a way to save and reuse rainwater when it falls, they fine people who set up rain barrels or cisterns to save and reuse that water. Nor do they do it at the local or state level. Morons. The only solution will be to set up desalinization plants. Very expensive at this point
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CWO4 Terrence Clark
Since no feasible method of storing excess electricity from windmills is in place, great time to use windmills to power desalination plants. Tijuana, Rosario and Ensenada (arguably San Diego suburbs - or vice versa) already get about 40% of their water from desalination.
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From what I understand, their refusal to build any kind of dams or reservoirs is a lot of the problem, any rain they get runs away.
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