One drought-stricken California city is considering “publicly shaming” people who waste water.
All I can say is that anyone who counts on shame to work has never seen a reality TV show.
One drought-stricken California city is considering “publicly shaming” people who waste water.
All I can say is that anyone who counts on shame to work has never seen a reality TV show.
I would love to see Barbara Streisand, and a few others, with their head and hands locked into stocks on a town green somewhere!
No slack for the wicked, Connecticut!
My Grow agression!
If public shaming is PC-keen, do they have any objection to replacing EBT cards with old-fashioned welfare stamps?
I guess they don’t want to shame the recipients into taking dirty jobs.
Mike Rowe aggression!
This is absurd. I’ve been living in CA for twenty-some years and can assure you that the only way you can begin to shame an urban Californian is to accuse him of being a conservative, a Christian, or a Republican. Choose two of those for the win. It gets real ugly for the trifecta.
Are you effin kidding me? What an earth-friendly solution.
But temporary. A pro tempkin village!
My solution? Nuke-a DeLuna.
California should just ShamWow them and recover the wasted water.
Presently, I’m sprinkling various raised beds full of spinach, broccoli, beets, peas, potatoes, beans, cabbage, summer squash, asparagus, blueberries and strawberries.
There’s plenty of water here in the islands various wells and artesian springs because we’ve had a “20-year wet” – although, we’re in a drought with 16% of our normal snowpack. So, the farmers in E. Wash. are gonna hurt if we don’t get what would amount to unusual summer rains.
But, you’re all invited over for fresh asparagus, succulent broadleaf spinach, beet greens and BBQ chicken with mashed taters. Someone needs to bring dessert and some really good ale. Guaranteed no shame.
@7 Jimmy:
“What, no spam? Ewwww”
If you want spam, Connecticut, I shall prepare it for you. But there’s 2-1/2 packs of bacon in the fridge, so you might prefer that. 🙂
“we’ve had a “20-year wet”
Here in Connecticut, we have a bumper crop of 20-year-olds-wet-behind-the-ears.
Jimmy: I’m confused on two points: a 20-year wet can be followed immediately by a drought? No intermediate situation? And ale, not 20-year-old scotch?
@10: Yeah? Well, here in Washington we’ve had a 50-year wet of hippies who urinate in public.
@11: I gave up the Scotch recently as it was killing-off the friendlies. Plus, yes, our climate is like a yo-yo made by Al Gore.
Hmmmm, I wonder how much water the millions of illegals use…on top of everything else, none of which they pay for?
Oh that’s right, they live under a different set of rules.
A reconsideration of desalination is underway in Santa Barbara, about 185 miles north of Carlsbad, where planners are in the early discussions about investing around $20 million to upgrade and restart a $34 million desalination plant that was constructed there in the early 1990s as a hedge against an ongoing drought, according to Joshua Haggmark, the interim water resources manager for the city.
Although the plant was permitted and constructed in just two years, it was never brought online. The rains returned and filled area reservoirs just as the desalter was completed. “It was really a challenge to continue and run and operate the facility given the much cheaper surface water,” he told NBC News. “The facility was mothballed.” In fact, part of it was disassembled and sold to Saudi Arabia.
I wonder what they do with the leftover briney salt, NO_MO. I can just picture a cadre of California regulators monitoring every step of the disposal of such a BAD, polluting substance!
@1: Hillary and Pelosi both claim to have made fortunes in stocks. So send ’em back there!
How about public shaming people that waste tax payer money