It's official: Car washing in my city is now forbidden

[Kabish]

We already have the highest electricity in the entire US by far, why not add water to the list too.

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[spurlinb]

It's going to get much worse for CA if UT starts taking the full allotment of water they are legally allowed to, which they historically have not as I understand it. I was recently thinking of building a home in St George UT, but changed my mind looking at the water issue now and in the future.

 

[dbsb3233]

Most golf courses already use nonpotable water for irrigation. Those that don’t, will as use fees rise.

Yep. I just looked at a report for my state from 2005 that listed golf course irrigation stats. Only 14% used public potable water. The rest use surface water (64%), ground water (23%), or reclaimed wastewater (14%). (Those add up to >100% since some use multiple.)

I would guess many pump from the lakes/ponds that are often on the course.

 

[bcaceres]

It’s only going to get worse. Lake Mead dropped another 10 feet in the last 5 weeks. It’s now more than 180’ below full pool. This has ramifications not only for water supplies, but also power generation.

Another side-effect of the water dropping in Lake Mead is that police cold cases on unsolved murders are reopening as they have found at least two bodies (skeletons) that I am aware of. I read that one was wearing shoes that placed his death in the mid-1970's to early 1980's.

I live in Las Vegas and when we went boating with my sister-in-law's family down at Lake Mead you can clearly see how far the water line has dropped on the canyon walls. It is crazy.

 

[Chuck]

Yep. I just looked at a report for my state from 2005 that listed golf course irrigation stats. Only 14% used public potable water. The rest use surface water (64%), ground water (23%), or reclaimed wastewater (14%). (Those add up to >100% since some use multiple.)

I would guess many pump from the lakes/ponds that are often on the course.

Yeah, well, there's no surface water to speak of in California. And any lakes/ponds are not from nature. The only lakes around here are reservoirs of drinking water.

 

[Socalsp3]

i have 4 rain barrels collected about 500gal last winter. the plants love rain water. was thinking of using rain water to wash my car and not get water stains.

 

[tesla2mme]

The 1920s were full of difficulties and trials and tribulations. The 2020s started off exactly the same (Remember when Iran shot down its own airliner and Kobe Bryant died in a helo crash? and of course, you know, that V thing...) and might as well just keep it going.

I watched people carry out at least $2,000 worth of shoes and other goodies today from a store with nary a response from the store staff / "security" - They simply walked out, bags full of free merchandise - so while I know we try not to get political 'round these parts, it seems like grand theft could be a way to defray the cost of water.

 

[mburtsvt]

Not to go too off topic, but just to the left of California is a fairly large body of water - the Pacific Ocean. I’ve never seen a good reason offered for why California just doesn’t do what they do in the Middle East and desalinate ocean water for use?

We would need a few more nuclear power plants and a large area to store the water. Neither are in the cards.

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

We would need a few more nuclear power plants and a large area to store the water. Neither are in the cards.

There’s an extremely large cave deep below Orange County. It’s normally filled with water. It’s not atm as the places it gets its water from, the Colorado River and the Owen’s Valley projects (et al) are sort of not providing much. It has plenty of room for more water right now. That aquifer would have been emptied decades ago if it were not for the Mighty Colorado (among other sources).

 

[mdolan92869]

There’s an extremely large cave deep below Orange County. It’s normally filled with water. It’s not atm as the places it gets its water from, the Colorado River and the Owen’s Valley projects (et al) are sort of not providing much. It has plenty of room for more water right now. That aquifer would have been emptied decades ago if it were not for the Mighty Colorado (among other sources).

They also recharge the aquifer with treated waste water. There are some holding ponds (ex-quarries) near my house where they keep water before sending it to the Santa Ana river to let it percolate back down. https://www.ocwd.com/what-we-do/groundwater-management/

 

[Maquis]

We would need a few more nuclear power plants and a large area to store the water. Neither are in the cards.

Plenty of places to store water. The problem is no water to fill them.

 

[MWeber]

I’m also a recent transplant to LA. Moved from New York. We were shocked the first time we got a water bill. It is many times higher than what we were paying on the East Coast. I’ve cut my sprinklers back to the restricted days and am hoping for the best. We have waterless wash that they use on film production sets. Haven’t tried it on my Mach E yet, but it works great on my husband’s cars.

 

[BadgerGreg]

Recycled wastewater and desalination plants are going to be inevitable, as they are in other similar climates. The only downside of recycled wastewater is that, while it's clean and technically safe, it's really hard to filter out the complex compounds from pharmaceuticals that pass through the human body. Good for showering and cleaning; not so great for drinking (unless you want second-hand Viagra )

 

[mdolan92869]

Recycled wastewater and desalination plants are going to be inevitable, as they are in other similar climates. The only downside of recycled wastewater is that, while it's clean and technically safe, it's really hard to filter out the complex compounds from pharmaceuticals that pass through the human body. Good for showering and cleaning; not so great for drinking (unless you want second-hand Viagra )

I saw Second-Hand Viagra on a side stage out at Coachella!

 

[Jimrpa]

There’s an extremely large cave deep below Orange County. It’s normally filled with water. It’s not atm as the places it gets its water from, the Colorado River and the Owen’s Valley projects (et al) are sort of not providing much. It has plenty of room for more water right now. That aquifer would have been emptied decades ago if it were not for the Mighty Colorado (among other sources).

And I’m sure there’s lots of room for more nuclear (and solar) power plants in California. Desalinate ocean water and store the brine in said cave (unless there’s material that can be recovered from the brine).

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