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15 Feb ’12
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wow, they get you coming and going
Under orders to slash their water use in the fourth year of a statewide drought, Los Angeles residents and businesses have largely risen to the challenge.
But this week, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power officials said that because its customers have done such a good job saving, the agency is short on revenue.
To help fill in the gap, the Board of Water and Power Commissioners approved a pass-through charge that will require an average customer to pay about $1.80 more a month, beginning in 2016.
“We have no other way of recovering the revenue to maintain the system for our customers,” Neil Guglielmo, director of budget, rates and financial planning for the DWP, said Wednesday.
The DWP fell about $111 million short of its revenue projection in the fiscal year that closed this summer, in part because Los Angeles residents and businesses reduced their water consumption about 10% more than expected, officials said.
6 Oct ’15
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I has heard about this on network news. One of the reporters made a good point...rather than complaining about the $$$ appreciate that you still have water.
For many years there have been predictions over water being a commodity that bring about war...there are a long history of battles over water rights.
I spent some time in northern most Nevada, one man was caught taking water out of a stream without having legal water rights, he had criminal charges brought up and paid an enormous amount of fines...the man was interviewed as this was unfolding and he said he new it was wrong and he was trying to keep his ranch going and family fed, but that he was more worried about harm to him and his family from 'neighbors' over losing his ranch.
...what are people willing to pay for potable water???
It does kill me to see people taking the garden hose and washing off the drive way...no clue how precious water is and how much it takes to bring good water to their tap.
One of the best things about our place is the rain/snow fall we have and that the property has a spring fed stream that has consistent flow that is estimated around 2,500 gpm. Good for the critters and gardens. I plan to make better use of it once we are out there full time, we have good flow but little head...have looked into a lot of low flow wheels and I am excited about making that work...I have plans (somewhere) where you take a common car generator and put a paddle wheel on it and mount it all to a float then tether it in the stream and wire it ... not going to run a home...but a nice small project to start out...bigger issue hear is the cold in the winter and keeping the batteries warm...there are relatively basic solutions to that...should be fun.
15 Feb ’12
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when we were planning our house a retired colonel was building an off the grid home a couple towns over and he would come into our business often and we would discuss his design and talk about ours, he completed his home before us and invited us over to see it.
We brought our daughter along and after the tour was sitting on his deck talking over some beers and what was going on in the world.
He looked at my daughter and said our war was the war for oil, your war will be the war for water, I tend to believe him.
6 Oct ’15
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15 Feb ’12
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yep, and quite a few back up filters
11 Oct ’12
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This was all over our news (Sacramento) for a day or so and then gone. The price isn't such a big deal but the principle is and the thought of what may come is scary.
6 Oct ’15
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A couple of the basics on Ground Water by the USGS.
Ground Water and the Rural Homeowner
http://pubs.usgs.gov.....homeowner/
Groundwater depletion
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