RSD559 wrote:
You mean the same Kookifornia that goes against the people's voice and shoots down all plans for reservoirs, but then enacts laws that restrict residents to 55 gallons of water usage per day?
I don't understand the ruckus over the proposed 55 gallon limit per person per day. Why? I'll use my family as an example.
There are 3 of us, and we use 4,000 gallons per month at most. It once spiked to 4500 gallons when we had 3 guests staying for a week...
4000 / 30 / 3 = 44.44 gallons per person per day, and that's with an irrigation system keeping my landscaping looking beautiful while living in the Chihuahuan Desert. I don't even try to conserve, but I guess its just how I was brought up in SoCal? I won't go to the lengths my grandfather did in Santa Monica (if it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down), but apparently I don't need to. If a limit were enacted here, I would have to make no changes, as I am more than 10 gallons per person per day under the limit. Add in the 3 guests for a week's usage, and I would still be at 50 gallons per person per day.
If they proposed 40 gallons per person per day instead, I'd have to make a couple changes like reduce my irrigation timing and not wash dishes between main loads (I currently wash them after breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and wash individual items in-between, like drink glasses as they are used or baby bottles right after my son finishes one). But 55 gallons? If you're using more than that, you need to look in the mirror and figure out what you are doing wrong.
