My state is considering mandatory water conservation

Santa Cruz is the first city to have mandatory water conservation. The state of California is considering following up like Santa Cruz did.

http://news.yahoo.com/californias-catastrophic-drought-just-got-worse-lot-worse-181115468.html

My question is.....do you live in California? What would you do if it became mandatory? Would you follow the law?

And if you don't live in California, well, what do you think about this crisis? The whole state is in a severe drought.

Always amazed me that 2/3 of the world is water, yet we still suffer droughts. You'd think they'd be working on a way to turn that ocean water into drinkable water.

Desalination is crazy expensive

What isn't expensive these days?

Condoms.

Must be all the gayness.

Internet opinions.

-Byshop

Yea, turning salt water into drinkable water is possible but it's incredibly expensive. Since the world we live in is run pretty much entirely by money we won't be using salt water unless A) Money because a thing of the past or B) Desalination becomes commercially feasible.

What world do you live on?

I live in California, I read in the LA Times a while back that the drought has put pressure on solutions such as the development of water desalination plants. It's gonna cost money, and take time, but they're the best solution for California to lessen the impact of similar situations in the future.

Hey Hey! Someone else from the Bay Area. High Five! I live in Fremont.

I didn't know it was getting this bad. But if it really getting this bad out there, I'll be okay supporting it and doing my part.

The Earth is covered by about 71% water. He's 6% off, give him a break. big deal

You might want to reread what he said.

Right, semantics.

See, flazzle understood what I was getting at. Sorry that I failed to be precise in my wording. :(

Saintleonidas don't be thegerg

I live a little ways from you in SJ. you kind of have to follow the law otherwise you will be fined.

How much is the fine?

it varies by city. my city has not gone through with the mandatory reduction yet, luckily. but i was reading sacramento uses a strike penalty. first offense for going over is $25 and it increases to as much as $1000.

I see. Some will just pay the fine.

The Southwest uses much more water than can be refilled. Lake Powell and Lake Mead will be dead in a few decades. Probably not wise having golf courses and grass lawns in an arid environment.

Well, that sux.. On top of that it's illegal to collect rainwater off of your own roof.

More than just semantics. Huge difference between 71% and .02%.

@SaintLeonidas: what

Where is the .02% in the post?

Or what is the .02 percent referring to if it's not in his post

"that 2/3 of the world is water"...the world is only made up of .02% water not 2/3 or 71%. That is like saying that 95% of the body is skin. Leaving out "covered" is more than just semantics.

Oh

That's true and a good point

People **** away tons of resources. When they are given the option (recycling) they are generally too fucking lazy even to do that.

Forcing people to do shit can be a good thing, people are lazy assholes when life is good.

Reminds me of Chinatown.

southern california destroyed owens lake and then almost destroyed mono lake and central valley farmland and for what?

so you could live in a desert?

you idiots won't be happy until you ruin one of the most fertile agricultural areas in the world for the production of shitty sitcoms and places for plastic surgeons to practice.

it's not worth it.

It's not the first time California had instituted mandatory water rationing. I recall something similar happening back in the late 80's.

You knew I meant the surface, numbnuts. Congratulations on Google checking that statistic though to make yourself seem smart!

No need to Google basic facts about earth. Though it is clearly a resource you should use in the future.

Yeah, because it's just common knowledge that everyone knows the Earth is made of .02% water...when clearly two others in this thread even questioned it. Nice job, you're officially the smartest person in the thread. Your mother must be so proud.

How quickly you became so childish. Not surprised.

Darn! I'll have to try harder to surprise you next time...because what fun are surprises if the person isn't surprised! :D

I think I would have just said that the surface ratio is misleading rather than question the fact. Assuming that I was assuming jasean was referring to the surface. Much more to the fact,

@dave123321: That was my point. You and one other read it that way. I wasn't trying to get technical, figuring in the Earth's core and all that jive. It was meant to be in jest. I guess I gotta be more specific on here. Jeez.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination

It's inefficient and costly.

And drought's are caused by a lack of rain.

The state is doing what its gotta do. Gotta admire that when they could alternatively avoid doing anything by discussing it into oblivion.

Bring Schwarzenegger back. He would fix Cali right back up.

Well, then, let's just print more money to pay for it! :D

HERP DERP

Or, ya know, just use what you need because we don't need a f*cking ocean to provide us with even a comfortable level of potable water. If we didn't have golf courses and front yards full of plants that were originally grown in a country where it rains literally half the year in the middle of a desert then water resources wouldn't be as scarce. If we had been more proactive about global warming starting fifty years ago like we should have been then some of these droughts wouldn't be as severe and local bodies of water would be recovering instead of staying at record lows. If wishes were fishes the world, quite literally, would be an ocean.