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Drought news
« on: Jan 24, 14, 07:54:58 AM »
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Re: Drought news
« Reply #1 on: Jan 24, 14, 08:34:05 AM »

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Re: Drought news
« Reply #3 on: Jan 26, 14, 10:56:25 AM »
http://www.weatherwest.com/archives/1114

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Re: Drought news
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Re: Drought news
« Reply #5 on: Jan 27, 14, 08:49:28 AM »
California needs more than a 'miracle March' this time

A miracle March would help, but it would not prevent the third drought year in a row for California, meteorologists say.

http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/01/25/3733170/a-catastrophic-change.html

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Re: Drought news
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Re: Drought news
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Re: Drought news
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Re: Drought news
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Re: Drought news
« Reply #12 on: Feb 06, 14, 08:28:17 PM »
I prefer the accepted civilized method but realize that bears do pee in the woods and do not use any water at all.

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Re: Drought news
« Reply #13 on: Feb 07, 14, 08:34:31 AM »
Over a year now we have been discussing our declining water supply at the MAC meetings.  We have discussed the importance of a good winter to replenish our local supply.  The winter hasn't happened, well at least not enough moisture.  Next Monday night's MAC meeting will have an update for our water supply.

In the past year potentials like rationing has been discussed.  Trucking in water like we did about 6 years ago may not be an option any longer, it's very expensive, and more communities face the same problem now.  We all need to conserve water.

It surprises me how down the hill lawns of grass seem to get a pass.  It's not natural and very wasteful.  I came from Orange County with big lawns.  Living in Wrightwood for 22 years has shown me they are not very important, not natural and very wasteful, especially in times like this.  Las Vegas ran a program where they subsidized home removal of grass, I think they had something like a 13% reduction in water usage related to it.       

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Re: Drought news
« Reply #14 on: Feb 19, 14, 04:10:41 PM »
State water board considers 50-gallon daily limit

Ration would apply to communities at risk for drought

http://www.kcra.com/news/state-water-board-considers-50gallon-daily-limit/24549982

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Re: Drought news
« Reply #15 on: Feb 19, 14, 07:28:21 PM »
Do you know if that's per day or per household? The article doesn't say, and that would make a big difference. 50 gal/day per person is the U.S. average, supposedly.

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Re: Drought news
« Reply #16 on: Feb 19, 14, 07:42:45 PM »
That's 50 gallons per person - per day.
According to the news report the average Californian uses 200 gallons a day.

In Wrightwood we use fall less water per household than the average in California and at one point while fighting rate increases we ranked as one of the lowest in the state.

From USGS:
Estimates vary, but each person uses about 80-100 gallons of water per day.
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/qa-home-percapita.html

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Re: Drought news
« Reply #17 on: Feb 19, 14, 09:06:34 PM »
Ah, thanks.  I looked at our bill; we use about 40 g/day/person in the winter. 55 in the summer when I'm watering the new grass patch, but in a drought I'd definitely let that go.

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Re: Drought news
« Reply #18 on: Feb 20, 14, 07:52:10 PM »
According to this calculator I'm using approximately 51 gallons per day at home.
http://www.saveourh20.org/water-use-calculator

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Re: Drought news
« Reply #19 on: Feb 21, 14, 08:37:21 AM »