Yup, that’s what they’re doing in North Carolina…
BTW, the greenest states are also the most liberal – no big surprise there, if you think about it.
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After Gutenberg has a fine rant about the extremely serious southeast drought, and how water shortages are at least partly a result of global warming and deforestation. How bad is the drought? Bad enough they hoped hurricanes would come. And it’s getting worse every day. Lake Lanier has three months of water storage left. [...] He calls it a drought “of historic magnitude,” saying Lake Lanier, which provides water to one-third of Georgia, has only enough water for 121 days. All outdoor watering has been banned. Forecasts says the drought, which is getting worse, will persist in much of the South until December. Current U.S. drought monitor map. All of [...] This on top of the extreme drought, already in its eighth year. The cutbacks in water supply to southern California from the Sacramento Delta were ordered by U.S. District Judge Oliver W. Wange to protect smelt, a species of fish. The cutbacks could be up to 30% and the City of Long Beach has [...] Experts across [Los Angeles] concur that the conditions are ripe in southern California for the “perfect drought“. Los Angeles has recorded just 3.21 in. of rain in the year ending June 30, making it the driest year on record since 1877. According to the National Drought Mitigation Centre, southern California faces “extreme drought” this [...] This insane. In Colorado it is illegal to collect rainwater flowing off your roof into a rain barrel because under their bizarre and arcane water laws, that water already belongs to someone else – something which takes the concept of private property to entirely new levels of psychosis. However it’s not just Colorado, all the [...] Not only do their power plants use water for cooling, some of the power is from hydro. So it’s a double whammy. The price of electricity is rising fast, and the drought continues. Solar, wind, and wave power, anyone? The Florida drought has gotten so severe that golf courses are now mandated to use 45% less water – so now they are forced, forced I tell you, to cut back to a mere two million gallons a month each. Crops are dying but golf courses are allowed to be water pigs so an elite [...] Dave Riley blogs on the continuing serious drought in Queensland, Australia, saying that undoubtedly needed water conservation measures are having unintended consequences. The government is now mandating that 10% of sewage water be treated then used as drinking water. But this adds all manner of chemicals to the water, and if water usage is down [...] |  | ||||
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