- 08 Jun 2018 12:14
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[Zag Note: Fake headline corrected]
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/06/ ... state.html
People are arguing about how water use works but those on the right claim that a typical 8-minute shower takes up about 17 gallons, running an average washing machine takes up about 40. So if you take an 8-minute shower and do your laundry on the same day in California you will soon be fined $1,000 and up to $10,000 if it's during a drought.
The usual suspects are nitpicking about this being "fake news". Politifact says that it's actually the municipalities that get fined, which seems to suggest that somehow these fines won't make their way back to the people using the water (only inflated for transactional reasons), so apparently they think people can just ignore the law or something. Snopes says that a washing machine only uses 30 gallons of water, so you can in fact shower and do your laundry on the same day, assuming that you live alone and don't shower for more than 8 minutes.
Although this whole shower and laundry thing seems to be getting debated, let's consider what other things you can't do. Bath tubs are basically illegal in California unless we are talking about some kind of absurdly small bathtub. Watering your lawn is pretty much going to be a thing of the past, although I always preferred cactus to grass anyway, I can imagine that everyone's gardens and yards will start looking very different. And can you have many people living in one house now? If you have 4 people take an 8-minute shower each, that would be 68 gallons of water right there (17x4). So basically, showering every day will now be a thing of the past for many Californians, or they can learn to take some kind of ridiculous super fast shower and they're probably expected to blame Trump or something for that.
Honestly, as an ex-Californian myself, the things I'm reading following the Democrat's poor performance in recent elections and the kinds of laws that will be going into effect have me wondering if California isn't going to turn into a swing state.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/06/ ... state.html
People are arguing about how water use works but those on the right claim that a typical 8-minute shower takes up about 17 gallons, running an average washing machine takes up about 40. So if you take an 8-minute shower and do your laundry on the same day in California you will soon be fined $1,000 and up to $10,000 if it's during a drought.
The usual suspects are nitpicking about this being "fake news". Politifact says that it's actually the municipalities that get fined, which seems to suggest that somehow these fines won't make their way back to the people using the water (only inflated for transactional reasons), so apparently they think people can just ignore the law or something. Snopes says that a washing machine only uses 30 gallons of water, so you can in fact shower and do your laundry on the same day, assuming that you live alone and don't shower for more than 8 minutes.
Although this whole shower and laundry thing seems to be getting debated, let's consider what other things you can't do. Bath tubs are basically illegal in California unless we are talking about some kind of absurdly small bathtub. Watering your lawn is pretty much going to be a thing of the past, although I always preferred cactus to grass anyway, I can imagine that everyone's gardens and yards will start looking very different. And can you have many people living in one house now? If you have 4 people take an 8-minute shower each, that would be 68 gallons of water right there (17x4). So basically, showering every day will now be a thing of the past for many Californians, or they can learn to take some kind of ridiculous super fast shower and they're probably expected to blame Trump or something for that.
Honestly, as an ex-Californian myself, the things I'm reading following the Democrat's poor performance in recent elections and the kinds of laws that will be going into effect have me wondering if California isn't going to turn into a swing state.
Orb Team Re-Assemble!