Los Angeles residents were urged on Wednesday to take shorter showers, reduce lawn sprinklers and stop throwing trash in toilets in a bid to cut water usage by 10 percent in the driest year on record.
With downtown Los Angeles seeing a record low of 4 inches
of rain since July 2006 — less than a quarter of normal — and with a hot, dry summer ahead, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said the city needed “to change course and conserve water to steer clear of this perfect storm.”
It is the driest year since rainfall records began 130 years ago.
I seem to remember from last time: ‘if it’s brown, flush it down; if it’s yellow, let it mellow’. The waste of water in toilets is disgusting and stupid.
Let’s make the point [#1] more delicately:
“In this land of drought and sun, never flush for Number One.
That is something that we do, only for Number Two.”
{Sigh} They’ll just come up here to Vegas & use our water.
I still think this drought is the result of some sort of Nigerian conspiracy. It has Akinola’s fingerprints all over it…don’t you think? I mean, all those noble, democratic folks in Los Angeles were simply living as they were made in a setting reflecting their own social construct…then this terrible thing happens for NO REASON. Only an evil influence from outside, one bent on forcing others to bow down to it, could be responsible. One can only wonder….
Look at all the water the ECUSA/TEC is saving by not having to do baptisms! I mean, the it ought to have been enought for at least a lawn or two before 2003. Now, maybe a city park?
While I can understand the “if it’s brown…” saying…and my parents practice it, I personally think it’s disgusting and would rather live in a fairly sanitary environment than save a little bit of water. However, the article suggests that people stop throwing trash in their toilets. Who throws trash in their toilets? Why would you throw trash in your toilet? Isn’t that what a trashcan is for?
Hursley [#4]: There certainly is a lot of water in southern Nigeria.
Grace [#6]: Some people put their kleenex in the trashcan. Others give it a special flush.
#6:
I’m not a fan of the practice myself. But you can get toilets that have different flushes for the different, um, circumstances, and that helps.
I also read an article once suggesting that we would see a trend of installing urinals in homes. A urinal flush uses much less water than a regular toilet, so that would save water for half of us anyway.
Recirculating water in swimming pools would be a start in the right direction. Draining them would be better.
How ironic that these two posters are respectively number one and number two? 🙂
#10
That seems to mean that Irenaeus is —-. But liberal pluralist as I am, I don’t remotely believe that.