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Old 06-07-2018, 16:19   #6
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Originally Posted by Chucko View Post
If you full time it in a motor-home or a camper, you would be surprised how little water can be lived on.

I understand "per capita" meaning 55 gallons per person in the household. So two people can use over 3000 gallons a month, and I think that is a lot. A person just can't waste it. I don't think me and my wife use over 2000 gallons a month and some to spare. We wash the car, showers every night, laundry when clothes are dirty.

I saw a program a year or so ago that said Calis problems are from not constructing as many dams as they should have and all the rainfall is just running through to the ocean. Now they are paying for it.

The chickens are coming home to roost for my friends in Cali. They can always move to Wisconsin.
This is California, things aren't that simple. They did this, temporarily, about 30 years ago. The reduction was a percentage, 20% I think. I fought back and told CWS that we'd just had a baby and now had an au pair living with us. They raised our allotment. Not long after they implemented this they raised the rates because they were losing money (LA's DWP had just spent a couple of million dollars on a meeting table). When the restriction went away, the higher rates did not.

Not only are they not building new reservoirs, they have been removing old ones for decades.

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Originally Posted by 1stindoor View Post
Water, water, everywhere...and not a drop to drink. Great! Now they're going to start flooding states east of them and start the cycle all over again.
There are a dozen roads across the Colorado River and only 3 major ones. It wouldn't be hard for AZ to stop them.

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Originally Posted by TOMAHAWK9521 View Post
Sadly, two of the primary cities the rejects from the bay area are aiming for are Austin and Boise. And recently, some jack wagon refugee from san fran tried to run for the Idaho legislature in Boise but, thankfully, didn't make the cut. Frankly, I think there should be a strict 10-yr moratorium (quarantine) period for anyone coming from the communist regions of Kalifornia before they can partake in any political activities aside from voting.
I agree. The year that we moved to AZ from CA was an election year and we were immediately eligible to vote. The only local and state candidate that we recognized on the ballot was Sheriff Deaver . . . and he'd just been killed. Most people from CA would go ahead and vote for anyone with a "D" next to their name. We didn't vote for the "R"s because we just didn't know anything about them. We did vote for Sheriff because we did our homework on him and, while he's no Deaver as a personality, he has continued Deaver's mission locally.
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Last edited by PSM; 06-09-2018 at 15:55. Reason: Corrected our water provider's name.
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