Water Shortages

[Minnymouth]

As most of you know some parts of the US are under a severe water shortage.... places like Atlanta (their supply is almost dry), Tennessee, Kentucky, and South Carolina, and other places in Georgia.

My area is one of the areas under the severe water shortage. The river has gone dry, the water table is below the dam, and we are using generators everyday to pump as much as we can out of the dam.

We are under extreme restrictions, 20% cut-back mode per household, and severe fines for "wasting water".

YET EVERYDAY, we catch people washing driveways, washing cars, cleaning out pools etc..... Many will NOT repair leaks they have on their water lines.

SOOOOOOOOOOOO......... they are fined $250 per incident, loose their water service till further notice, and can spend up to one year in jail.

DON'T THEY GET THE MESSAGE................no water available to them thru the water lines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just because there is a lake 20 miles down the road, doesn't mean we have access to it!!! Cost a fortune to run those kinds of lines.... and most of John Q public doesn't want to pay for it..

SO FOLKS - IF YOUR IN A DROUGHT AREA - AND WANT "DRINKING WATER" - you better "CONSERVE"!!!!!!!!

It may come to the point where you will only get water on certain days, every other day, etc. One place in Tenn is already doing just that. Customers get water 3 hrs every day at a certain time. Otherwise its ALL TURNED OFF. They are trucking it into their resevoir now.....

Same situtation with the gasoline prices........... keep using more and more, and the prices will keep going up........... THEY LOVE MAKING MONEY...........

[whatamess]

Years ago when we were under a bad dry spell we had $1,000 fines. They were enforced too, yet they STILL watered the golf ranges, soccer fields, and government office gardens. The rich still has sprinkler systems on early in the morning. Car washes were mobbed.
Very few actually care. Wait until they turn on the faucet and rust/silt pour out if they have a well. A new well pump and deeper one can cost about $8-10 grand. If they have city sewer they will have to live with unflushed toilets and dirty laundry/dishes.
We were under a draught but weve had lots of rain in the last few weeks. I wish I could send you some. I'm tired of pea soup fog.
WAM

[Minnymouth]

Around here the fine for business is even stiffer..... no car washes, no business washing anything, no golf courses, and it don't make any difference whether your rich or poor.......

Now they even have tanks filled just for the fire dept to use......

Wonder how folks would feel if their house caught on fire and no water to put it out???

Some here have had that "don't give a **** attitude too...... they are fined, arrested, etc.....

Another warning going out into days mail.....fines are stiffer, more arrest will be done. The citizens are under a Court Order by the Judge to conserve or pay the price. Every gallon they use MORE than their supposed to is EXPENSIVE.......... Some folks are screaming bloody murder already.... at their water bills.

One guy used 29,000 gallons one month for 2 people......???????????? a leak he didn't want to fix!!!!!!!
Now he has a fine to pay, jail time, BIG WATER BILL, and no water now till he proves his leak is repaired. SOL.

The average family of 4 usages 3660 gallons of water a month, thats laundry, showers, cooking, etc.

Some of the folks I talk too, I ask them - how you gonna take a bath when you have NO WATER..... if its rationed, it will be turned off an on when the water district wants it on!!!! They will turn the main valves off to the roads......

Most people don't realize the water district can turn the main valve off at the water treatment plant and the whole city/county can be NO WATER..............

Hope some of these folks SEE THE LIGHT!!!!

[arkienurse]

Years ago when we were under a bad dry spell we had $1,000 fines. They were enforced too, yet they STILL watered the golf ranges, soccer fields, and government office gardens. The rich still has sprinkler systems on early in the morning. Car washes were mobbed.
Very few actually care. Wait until they turn on the faucet and rust/silt pour out if they have a well. A new well pump and deeper one can cost about $8-10 grand. If they have city sewer they will have to live with unflushed toilets and dirty laundry/dishes.
We were under a draught but weve had lots of rain in the last few weeks. I wish I could send you some. I'm tired of pea soup fog.
WAM

I just don't get watering the grass. At least the city I work in uses gray water to water the golf courses. Still don't get it though. We do weekly water usage reports in the local paper, as they say our aquifer is "endangered". Since starting the reports 4 years ago, usage has gone down, so some people do care, but I will still be driving home at night, in the rain and will go by someone's house with the sprinklers on the grass. The only thing I have ever watered at all is plants. And if we are in a shortage, I don't bother to water.

[AMISLANDER]

I read about this shortage about 2 months ago...

We were just lucky in FL to get rain this summer.

And, strangely enough, we drilled a well this summer at the property I work for. I think it was around $18K for the project...landscaping extra...but in one month's usage, the bill went from $1,200 to $14....

This well will be used for watering along the road for our landscaping and will pay for itself within two years.

I guess with the way water is going, we couldn't have picked a better time.