My parents live in Georgia. They have extensive water regulations in place there, including when one can water their lawn, wash their cars, that kind of thing. Common sense regulations designed to encourage conservation. Don't water your grass at noon in the summer, for example.
Here in L.A., technically a desert, we have zero water regulations. None. Like, use all the water you want, no rate hike, no penalty, no nothin'.
Consequently, we have yard after yard of unnaturally green lawns and luscious non-native plants like magnolia trees. Its not that people don't have to pay for water, but they obviously don't have to pay enough.
This week the L.A. City Council was presented with a proposal to increase rates for excessive water use. You know--if you fill and re-fill your pool once a month, or if you go crazy on the watering or fountains or something, the rate will increase after you cross a certain threshold. Well the City Council in all of its wisdom totally shot the proposition down.
Disgusting and unbelievable. How entitled are these people? Will we have to drain the entire West before we realize that maybe we should have gone easy on the greenery?
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