calif water supply

[Brent S]

This post reminds me I need to make a good sediment filter. I have two streams that run all year, so storage isn't as important here. I do want a good pre filter though, so my good filters last longer. I think a thirty gallon filter filled with a fine sand should get the sediment out. I do have a 1050gal plastic tank for rain catchment, but it's not a good grade of plastic, so would only use it for the garden and plants. I am close to setting it up on a platform and running gutters into it, then I can use gravity to water the greenhouse and garden.
It still amazes me that California is just now thinking about deaslination. A little late I think.

 

[hills have eyes]

http://www.containertechnology.com/

 

[Clyde]

http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/01/27/3735473/as-california-drought-continues.html


gov brown say 20 persent cut back really tell that to sf and la cal

I was down in Orange County and saw that the City of Tustin has instituted an odd/even day system for watering.
I have not seen this odd/even days since the gas issues of the 1970's (Good old Jimmy Carter)

http://www.occonservewater.net/regulations/watering-restrictions
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/water-660939-city-tustin.html

 

[hills have eyes]

http://stationcaster.com/player_skinned.php?s=3393&c=15193&f=4509983

listen to when Devin Nunes about water he is right on the money

 

[jontte]

so my fellow preppers,tell me when will they cut off all those golf courses from getting water?? isn't there better places for H2O??

 

[Maverick]

so my fellow preppers,tell me when will they cut off all those golf courses from getting water?? isn't there better places for H2O??

Golf courses are like the State capital, they will be the last to cut water on a scale that matters but damned the farmers and small rural towns in the process, I can care less about golf courses, beverly hills, palo alto, redondo beach, menlo park, foster city, laguna niguel then you have these other upper bracket cities like villa park, manhattan beach, chino hills, cerritos and sierra madre that I care even less about that's using over 90 gallons a day per person siphoning water from small rural towns and farmlands, the places above help fund the policy makers regardless of political affiliation! California has been mismanaged by all sides of the political spectrum all in the name of a select few.

 

[jontte]

sad but so true....I would love to se that day when those communities would be cut of from water supply, no food from the farmers..no nothing..eat your amex then

 

[jimLE]

they'll be just as lost as a plumber on a job,and without their tools...

 

[hills have eyes]

go to Porterville right they're having to haul water now to give to their peoples and i,m close to that here they do not care bout farmers liberal left that is they put out that farms us 80 %
of the water in the news and won the propaganda in the big cities

 

[jontte]

for f**** sake,it can't go on like that...

 

[hills have eyes]

hate to say it but yes it is going like that
ask your self were do they fish love show there results on the water they use they don't they've use the bulk of the water \
what would the rivers be with out the dams we build for people and farming there reelect governor brown who started this in his first time as governor by cut his fathers bill so open the dams let the water out were there fish and bay erea salt be then being a bit of smart arrs saying last part don't want to see that

 

[jontte]

you guys have my sympathy..for what it's worth..know it doesn't transform to water...

 

[jimLE]

i feel and believe that all hell is gonna break lose eventually.and i dont want to be within a days drive of there when it does.

 

[hills have eyes]

guys the lake are at the point were you do not want to swim in the lake around me because you now get cover buy leaches the dam bad thing for me im by 4 diferent lake and im bout out of water ive been hauling water to help keep my animal watered

 

[jimLE]

ever tried cooking leaches? lol

 

[hills have eyes]

ya to get them off lol

 

[hills have eyes]

http://www.agstories.com/state-water-control-board-fails-central-valley-community/

 

[hills have eyes]

 

[Maverick]

City Of Ceres

The State Water Resources Control Board has proposed regulations to achieve a 25 percent reduction in water use statewide. The City Of Ceres is required to cut water use by

28.0%

This is based on a June 11 revision tied to an average July through Sept. 2014 daily per capita residential water use rate of 166.30 gallons that places water agencies into nine tiers of reduction targets.

114.0

The May 2015 daily per capita residential water use rate according to data submitted to the State Water Resources Control Board.

+30.33%

How much more water residential customers the City Of Ceres used in May 2015 when compared to the statewide average daily per capita residential water use rate of 87.47 gallons. The City Of Ceres serves a total population of 46989, and residential customers account for about 81.0% of the water used.

Over the past 12 months, water use by this agency's residential customers has decreased by -42.57%, going from 198.5 residential gallons used daily per capita to 114.0 residential gallons used daily per capita.

Sources: California Water Resources Control Board


In all honesty 114 gallon daily average per customer still seems high as a comparison, our house on the property uses about 53gal a day average, cooking showering and watering plants, our showers are on 3 minute timers, the house in town uses on average 70gal and that's cooking showering clothes washing once a week watering plants and garden and I'm sure I can reduce that by fixing the leaking spigot to the garden, unless everyone in Ceres has a garden to average 114gal per resident 114gal seems high.

Yes I have meters from the wells to the house to monitor our usage

 

[jontte]

166gal...that's 630 liters....no bloody wonder there's a shortage of that wonderful liquid....

 

[hills have eyes]

http://sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=568

 

[hills have eyes]

Hetch Hetchy Litigation

Hetch Hetchy Litigation

The voters of San Francisco have spoken. See all the results from the Department of Elections.
On April 22, 2015 a lawsuit was announced with the stated goal of draining Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, the primary source of drinking water for 2.6 million people in the Bay Area. This page provides access to the numerous studies and analyses on the topic.

Much of this information was prepared for the San Francisco Department of Elections in response to the November 2012 San Francisco ballot initiative. The 2012 initiative was filed by the same organization, aimed again at draining Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. That measure was soundly rejected by 77% of San Francisco voters.

In the midst of this lawsuit and California’s fourth year of a historic drought, we will continue to put our customers first by remaining focused on our core mission of delivering high-quality, 24/7 water, power and sewer services.

The remainder of this document provides additional details about these conclusions, as do the accompanying attachments

• Full Letter to Mr. Arntz: Department Analysis – Water and Environment Plan
• Attachment A: Factual Information Related to Select Findings and Declarations
• Attachment B: Select List of Existing Water and Power Plans
• Attachment C: Impact on Water Rates
• Attachment D: Impacts of Droughts and Water Supply Reductions
• Attachment E: Loss of Clean Hydropower Generation
• Attachment F: Additional Annual Costs to SF Due to Loss In Hydropower Generation
• Attachment G: Hetch Hetchy Restoration Study. 2006.
• Attachment H: Protecting the Hetch Hetchy Water System. July 2005.

 

[hills have eyes]

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[DrHenley]

166gal...that's 630 liters....no bloody wonder there's a shortage of that wonderful liquid....

I just checked my last water bill. We averaged 74.8 gallons per day per person, and we are not in a drought and aren't even trying to conserve water.

 

[hills have eyes]

yup out of
calif not in yuppers we are but then again we need a bullet train to nowhere

 

[jimLE]

California freeway bridge collapses, blocking Ariz. traffic

http://news.yahoo.com/storms-close-beaches-causes-power-outages-california-074424024.html#

 

[hills have eyes]

all in la area not a drop where it s really needed were they get there water it where I am

 

[Michael HM Murdock]

I need a bit of help I've got a $650,000 replica of star castle up in swartberg. 38 bedrooms, three years worth of food and six tonnes of ammo. However the closest source of fresh water is twenty meters away, we do have a syphon system and close on three thousand litres of water stored but is that enough?

 

[hills have eyes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=51&v=kUJg4TOrTNI <---- bout of a town