Only in blue states:Californians may be incarcerated 30 days for wasting water

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  1. FixingLosers

    FixingLosers New Member

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    http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=wat&group=31001-32000&file=31020-31035.1

    Oh and, they are gonna have 15-men Sturmabteilungs patrolling streets, restaurants, etc etc to oversee such unlawful activities.

    Oh man this is... this is so textbook material for anyone who set out to prove liberalism/statism can fudge up a place real, real good!
     
  2. AKRunner88

    AKRunner88 New Member

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    They are almost facing an epic crisis that will endanger many lives. I see no problem.
     
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    Jail time may be overkill, but nobody needs to be wasting water.
     
  4. LivingNDixie

    LivingNDixie New Member

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    Grew up in the southwest, water is one thing you don't waste.
     
  5. smallblue

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    You might wanna read the maximum sentences for other misdemeanors. 30 days is actually pretty low.

    IE: In Las Vegas the maximum penalty for jay walking is no more than 6 months in jail and a fine of no more than $1000, or both.

    That doesn't mean jay walking will get you 6 months in jail, just like receiving a violation for misuse of water during a drought isn't going to land you 30 days in jail.

    Multiple offenses might land you stiffer fines each time to the point of a judge deciding jail time if you continue to disregard the ordinace.

    So yes, this is pretty textbook.
     
  6. ErikBEggs

    ErikBEggs New Member

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    I'm going to assume you think California's water shortage (and future horrific outlook on water) is a joke?
     
  7. FrankCapua

    FrankCapua Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Won't be enforced in Beverly Hills.
     
  8. My Fing ID

    My Fing ID Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Im no fan of government but I can see the necessity to limit water usage during a drought.
     
  9. Turin

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    As a red blooded american male, I DEMAND my right to be as absolutley wasteful as possible that my money will allow. If I choose to purchase water in 1000 gallon drums, and poor it down the drain in front of people who have no clean water to drink, thats my god given american right! Being wasteful is about being FREE. And you cant put a price on freedom baby.

    /sarcasm off
     
  10. logical1

    logical1 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    People in Calif should do a lawn watering pyramid scheme. In a months time you could have 14,000 people commming and peeing on you lawn. :)
     
  11. Bear513

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    That's what the rich do in palm springs, they use up 38% of the water available for private and public golf courses and time to time a sitting president will play a round of golf there.
     
  12. TCassa89

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    they don't call it an emergency drought for no reason
     
  13. Sadanie

    Sadanie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Correct! And, by the way. . . that crisis is going to affect EVERYONE in the United States!

    You think that Florida strawberries will stay at the "regular price" when those California strawberries don't show up in the market nationwide? California has been one of the largest producer nationwide of fresh vegetables. . .it costs money (as in WATER) to grow vegetables!
     
  14. FixingLosers

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    so? Import strawberries.
     
  15. Sadanie

    Sadanie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Duh! You're really good with economics, aren't you? :roll::wall:
     
  16. Durandal

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    Yep, leave it to statists to come up with the worst possible solution to a problem.
     
  17. Johnny-C

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    It's just stupid, to think that a water shortage isn't a major issue. It can/will affect public safety... of course, government authorities must/will take the water usage 100% seriously.
     
  18. banchie

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    Hmm, is this "new" legislation, because it seems to have been around for years, and surfaces every time we face a drought causing a water emergency. This could have been written on either side of the isle, why not on the authoritarian side of the isle?

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    There is no sign the OP is true yet, so don't jump to conclusions about who did what to whom.
     
  19. wgabrie

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    Ah, nothing like the draconian measures of a parched thirsty and needy people. We knew for years that water scarcity in this century would be a problem, and here it is! :rolleyes:

    Climate change is going to make this a lot worse. So will human activity and population growth.

    I think this is a good introductory lesson about what kind of tough choices we'll need to make in the future as human population keeps growing and straining our resources beyond the breaking point.

    Yep! We're all doomed! But, you know it's all going to be okay in the end! When we switch to more expensive but environmentally friendly technology. :smile:
     
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    Finally, someone who GETS it!
     
  21. banchie

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    It is also expensive to build more commercial nuclear plants, and desalination units for fresh water, and piping & pumps to send it inland, but that is the answer to America's water problems, and sooner or later we will have to do it. We could use 100 nuclear-desalination plants (300) on "each" of the our three coast lines running today. We need to flood inland aquifers and fields and create tons of new growth in desert and barren areas of inland states as well.
     
  22. garyd

    garyd Well-Known Member

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    IIn fact it should make it better as warm air holds more water vapor and makes for a more volatile atmosphere ergo more rainstorms and less drought. One of the reasons the North and south pole are pretty much deserts is because the air is so damn cold.
     
  23. johnmayo

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    Put down the pipe.

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    A fine would work.

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    SW has the worst water policy in the country. Extremely wasteful. Go irrigate the desert some more.
     
  24. FreshAir

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    especially if the citizens are having a shortage.. thats considered an emergency... kinda like when they set curfews in a emergency
     
  25. wgabrie

    wgabrie Well-Known Member Donor

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    Ah nuclear power... Like that'll happen. That nuclear engine of destruction is going to hurt us all in the long run.

    Do you know how many top level bad nuclear accidents there might be in the future? Well, I'm going with 5 over the next 300 year. Yup! Just the 5.

    As far a statistics go we only have Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi disasters to go on so far. Not a very large sample size. I'll have to wait for the next big bungle to fix my math... But in the mean time.

    Now if you take these things to be a once in a century event (Because Chernobyl happened in the 20th century, and Fukushima happened in the 21st century) than 5 disasters over 300 years is very bad! Almost twice the average for such bad things to happen.

    But, if you think these things happen every half-century than the odds get better, because somewhere we're going to luck out and have a whole half-century without a top level nuclear disaster. We might actually survive with a habitable Earth by 1000 years at this rate! Maybe! :rolleyes:
     

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