What is the real story behind California’s 55 gallons of water per day, per person?

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What is the real story behind California’s 55 gallons of water per day, per person?

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Just the Facts About California’s New Household Water Rationing Law
Right now there is no way to monitor individual indoor usage, nor is there a way to separate indoor watering from outdoor watering

What is the real story behind California’s 55 gallons of water per day, per person? California Globe recently summarized some of the state Legislature’s most unforgettable moments in 2019, including some water laws.

California voters have approved more than $30 Billion in Water Bonds which has provided no new water storage, and water rationing on the horizon.

California Globe spoke to noted water expert Kristi Diener for an update on this complicated matter:

In water year 2019, which spanned from Oct. 1, 2018 to Sept. 30, 2019, an amount of water equal to a year’s supply for 275 million people flowed under the Golden Gate Bridge and out to the Pacific Ocean. Rather than acting to build new, major, reservoir storage to capture all we can when Mother Nature brings us bountiful water for free, California continuously obstructs, and has even used the courts to block putting dam shovels in the ground. In fact, lawmakers recently enacted their own expensive and ineffective solution instead.

Full story: https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/j ... ioning-law
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Funny how they don't mention the water that will be lost/diverted by the single tunnel to the San Joaquin farmers and Westlands.
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Open concrete 50 year old canal subject to evaporation and leaks has a unknown (25%?) of water loss in transport. The 100 year old Mulholland Roman design aqueduct from Ownes Valley was covered to prevent evaporation.
People want more water and with no dams. It would seem a new pipe line would help solve the water transportation that we currently have in lieu of pointing fingers and agency polical infighting.
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WRB wrote:Open concrete 50 year old canal subject to evaporation and leaks has a unknown (25%?) of water loss in transport. The 100 year old Mulholland Roman design aqueduct from Ownes Valley was covered to prevent evaporation.
People want more water and with no dams. It would seem a new pipe line would help solve the water transportation that we currently have in lieu of pointing fingers and agency polical infighting.
Tom
That is a smart idea.
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As long as the pipeline is built with Union labor and has a minimum of 10 billion over budget then our all mighty leaders might consider it. Also it has to be built with tax payer money but Big AG can siphon off as much water as they want for next to nothing and can also sell that water to whomever and make millions.

We need another reservoir or two like San Luis if possible. It gets it water pumped in from the CA Aqueduct. Just a big area of land that holds water. That lake holds 2 million acre feet of water. Last year when we were dumping all the water down our rivers just to get rid of it I don't think that lake ever got more than 60% full. Why didn't whatever agency that fills that lake fill it to capacity???? Seems stupid but they did it for a reason and who knows what that reason is. Desal plants, water rationing, and building reservoirs that hold 50K acre feet isn't the answer.
Limiting big AG is the answer. They are getting rich off this states resources and during drought years they kill our recreation as in our lakes and rivers are to low to enjoy, grass for our kids to play sports on is dead, our lawns our dead and so on. Those fat F'ers are vacationing somewhere in paradise while we suffer.
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