Gov. Newsom Asks Californians To Cut Water Use By 15% Amid Drought

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Gov. Newsom Asks Californians To Cut Water Use By 15% Amid Drought

Newsom is yet to issue a California-wide state of emergency or mandate any water use restrictions. However, on Thursday, he expanded his regional drought state of emergency to apply to 50 of the state's 58 counties, which includes about 42% of the population, Newsom said. Newsom encouraged residents to take shorter showers, run dishwashers only when completely full and refrain from watering lawns.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

If California politicians were ballsy enough to crack down on the small minority of the ag producers who are using the majority of California's water, this wouldn't be necessary.

There's certain highly water-dependent shyt that shouldn't be grown in the fukking desert. If you demand the right to grow it then you should have to pay water rates that match your giant suck on the state's water supply. Instead, some of the very people who use the most water have leveraged their wealth and connections to ensure that they pay virtually nothing for that water and in many cases even get large government subsidies to fukk up California's water system.


Force California's rice, alfalfa, almond and other nut, and cattle farmers to pay just as much for their water as LA residents have to pay, pull their government subsidies, and the problem would take care of itself.