I live in Washington - or, as we know it up here, "North California". Specifically, I reside in Western Washington, where there are no such thing as droughts. And that is a very good thing, because it affords me the luxury of beholding utter, blithering, authoritarian idiocies like the following at least a couple steps removed:
American Water serves more than 180,000 people and businesses in Sacramento and Placer counties. But as the drought drags on, and if customers begin to waste water, the utility company says it may be forced to take drastic measures.
The utility company would install a device at the home or business that would either slow the flow of water or shut it down altogether, along with the threat of hundreds of dollars in fines.
American Water say at this point, it’s not even close to restricting or cutting off water, but it has a message to those who might waste it as the long dry season looms for the State.
“We like nothing more than to help you use your water wisely and work with our conservation efforts so that we don’t ever have to get to those efforts locally,” Foster said.
That begs a very big question: What do they consider as constituting "waste"? Specific uses, like watering one's lawn? Washing dishes? Bathing? Drinking? Is it a question of aggregate usage? Or is it a question of the, shall we say, demographic categorizations of a given American Water customer? Will, say, illegal aliens be considered more deserving of access to H2O than, say, Tea Party "extremists"? Remember, Governor Jerry Brown has already hinted at this sort of thing.
And can we recall that the Acupulco Golden State was already suffering from a government-mandated and -inflicted drought which the natural one has simply exacerbated? And that California (predominantly Donk) governments going back as long as half a century have either refused to, or been thwarted by incessant greenstremist litigation from, constructing reservoirs and other infrastructure that would and could have addressed just such (non)-rainy days as these? Indeed, Los Angeles residents should thank the good LORD above that Hoover Dam - which is the only reason why the L.A. basin is habitable at all - was built eighty years ago, before the rise of environmental extremism, because there's not a snowball's chance....wait, does anybody down there still remember what a snowball even looks like? There's a better chance of seeing Miley Cyrus in a chastity girdle than that Hoover Dam could ever get built today.
You know Arizona? Next State to the east? Mostly desert? They're not suffering from any drought. They also built reservoirs. Largely because they don't give a good GD about inedible fish as opposed to human beings.
And the punchline? This site's proprietor is being harassed by the City of Murrieta for....neglecting his lawn. The "corrective measures" of which would require him to....water it more.
I believe Ryan Styles best expressed the most logical reaction:
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