Calif. Water Shortage To Be Bad

[Ron61]

Wayne,

I will see what I can do about letting the authorities know that you need a water meter.

Here they have a small white car that drives around every day all Summer looking to see if anyone has water going in their yards or is washing a car. They stopped here once a year or so ago when I was washing my car, but once they saw how I do it they said that was ok. I never use a hose or soap. Just get a bucket with about a gallon of water and an old T Shirt and wipe it off then dry it with an absorber. Once I got the wet paint on it, that is all I have ever used to wash it.

Ron

[427sharpe]

I am surprised that Kalifornia has not gome to the old cistern system popular here in West Texas. New houses get built with an underground cistern (usually about 10-20k gallons) that catches what rainwater they have and used (non-toilet) water from the house for re-use on non-potable uses, like irrigation and such. Heck, even the ecomonster George Bush has one in Crawford.....too bad Al doesn't. I don't hear too much from the west (TX) about water shortages there. As for power...the greenies decided long ago that newts and spotted owls were higher priority than humans...hence no power plants (and God forbid NUCLEAR power plants!!) and no dams. Just wonder how long CA can leech off the other states before they put the screws down. Do you think the squeeze will finally bring Kalifornia back to it's senses?

[Joe Wicked]

The cisterns are not a bad idea. Hell that system supplied major populaces in ancient times, no reason it could not do the same today. They even used it for drinking water.

[Ron61]

Some places here used to have them back while the dam was being built. Ran rain water down into a filter system of rock and charcoal and then into the cistern. But I don't think they are allowed any more.

Ron

[wtm442]

Cistern are outlawed in many locations - disease, mosquitoes etc.

Wes and Ron - regarding rubber buckets. Any fool knows that you cannot save electricity in buckets. Ask anyone and they will tell you that you can save steam in a bucket.

My city never has instituted any kind of water ban. Of course, if you go 25 miles away to where one of my sisters lives, they have had a 100% water ban for the last 17 years! No washing cars, no watering the grass, etc.

But what is everybody paying for water? A friend one town away from me pays about $1200 a year for water. WOW.

My water bills have been:
2005 - $201
2006 - $335
2007 - $357

I do a little watering for my plants and garden, but NONE for the lawn.

What is everyone else paying for water?