Water conservation comes with unintended consquences
By Matt Stevens, Los Angeles Times
Under orders to slash water use amid a historic drought, cities and towns across the state saved about 75 billion gallons in July, eclipsing Gov. Jerry Brown’s once-daunting order for a 25% reduction.
But, in a paradox of conservation, water agencies say the unprecedented savings — 31% in July over July 2013 — are causing or compounding a slew of problems.
Sanitation districts are yanking tree roots out of manholes and stepping up maintenance on their pipes to prevent corrosion and the spread of odors. And when people use less potable water, officials say, there’s less wastewater available to recycle.
Water suppliers, meanwhile, say the dramatic decrease in consumption has created multimillion-dollar revenue shortfalls.
So water conservation is costing us more money? Yet drainng our water supply?
Very strange. I guess my neighbors are correct who water their lawns when it’s rainining. Crazy man, crazy.! OLS
Crazy is that our water districts and government agencies did not think all this through when making us all cut back. Who could not see that using less water meant less revenue for the water district? It does not matter they will just raise the rates and we will still pay the same or more for less and the citizens will again pay for the “unintended circumstances “. Nice job you Bozo’s!!!
That 75 billion gallons saved in July is less than the daily outflow into the Pacific Ocean by the Columbia river. Yeh, we have such a water shortage that we allow 3,000,000,000,000 gallons of fresh water to flood the Pacific Ocean every month. Man is such a genius.
So happy I never listened to this bs. My lawn is emerald green and thriving. If I have to pay out the nose for water……. I’m damn sure gonna use it!