California's drought is being used as a pretext for draconian measures against homeowners while the true water wasters are ignored
"Having a dirty car and a brown lawn should be a badge of honor because it shows you care about your community," -- Felicia Marcus, the CA State Water Resources Control Board chairwoman, as they prepare to impose $500 fines for anything they define as wasting water. If every one of us completely stopped using water in our personal lives, it would not come close to making up the shortage being felt by agriculture....mainly because of the wasteful way California farmers use water. Drive through the Central Valley in the middle of summer and you will see huge sprinklers spraying water in the middle of the day and fields being flooded in the process, losing huge amounts of water to evaporation. Very few crops and very little acreage is watered with drip irrigation in California compared to other arid regions of the world. The current state of affairs is the fault of both parties who are under the control of huge corporate farms. The farmers who control both...
