California To Permanently Restrict Water Use Beginning January 2025
PLUS Our Water Is For Sale Abroad. Is There Really A Shortage of Water?
Image: Sutter Slough winds through farmland in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, where much of the state’s supplies come from. California water regulators have approved permanent water restrictions for cities and towns in an effort to shore up the state’s supplies. Paul Chinn/The Chronicle 2011
Curious Lives In The Central Valley of California
PAY ATTENTION! Our Smart Water-Electricity-Gas Meters’ hidden purpose is to turn off our water at will. These reports do not mention Smart Meters - read between the lines folks.
News from Last Week:
California Imposes Permanent Water Restrictions on Residents - July 5, 2024 - Newsweek
Suppliers can cut back on water delivery by either mandating restrictions on consumers, incentivizing savings by raising rates, or encouraging low-flow appliances.
California advances first-in-nation plan to set water budgets for cities statewide - The Hill - July 5, 2024
The regulation requires the state’s largest suppliers to calculate individual water budgets based on residential indoor and outdoor water use, as well as on commercial, industrial and institutional landscape consumption — monitored via dedicated irrigation meters.
California to impose first-ever permanent water restrictions on cities and towns - San Francisco Chronicle - July 3, 2024
Some environmental groups said the final rules should have gone further to reduce water use given the expected shortages in the future. The Department of Water Resources projects a 10% decline in supplies by 2040 because of climate change. Supplies will likely continue to dwindle after that.
“The regulation does not meet the moment of growing water scarcity in California,” said Mark Gold, director of water scarcity solutions and environmental health for the Natural Resources Defense Council. “A strong regulation will exist in 2040, but that’s 15 years from now and there’s going to be a heck of a lot of water scarcity over that period.”
Water Shortage Is Food Shortage!
California Farm Water Coalition Warns Domestic Food Supply In Peril with State Cutting Water - California Globe - May 25, 2022
The California Farm Water Coalition issued a dire statement Tuesday warning that California’s agriculture industry and food supply is in peril because of restricted agriculture water supplies.
“Today’s State Water Board emergency water conservation regulation continues to demonstrate how serious this year’s drought is. Water conservation measures are reaching farther and farther into our communities and now go beyond the water supply cuts felt by California farms and rural communities earlier this year.”
The California Farm Water Coalition represents agriculture water suppliers, water districts, agribusiness, farmers, as well as the supporting agribusinesses such as farm equipment suppliers, tractor manufacturers, and the like.
It was only last summer that the State Water Resources Control Board eliminated water supplies for thousands of family farms throughout the Central Valley, a mere two years after the state’s reservoirs were full from a particularly wet year. “The California State Water Resources Control Board announced that thousands of farmers in the Central Valley up to the Oregon Border will have their water curtailed until winter, the Globe reported.
When the State Water Board orders water cut off to farmers, the food supply is also cut.
WATER TRADE
If Water is SOLD Abroad to Foreign Countries, is there really a water shortage? Okay, pull my other leg.
Report - U.S. Southwest, Already Parched, Sees ‘Virtual Water’ Drain Abroad - Undark - May 31, 2121
"Foreign corporations are increasingly purchasing land in the US; in the Southwest, thanks to longstanding laws on water rights, these purchases often come with unlimited access to the valuable water underneath the soil."
For decades, a significant portion of alfalfa grown here and elsewhere in the western United States — as much as 17 percent in 2017 — has been loaded onto trucks, driven hundreds of miles to ports on the west coast, and shipped around the world, mainly to China, Japan, and Saudi Arabia. A little over five years ago, one company decided it made more sense to own the land, and the water that came with it, outright.
The New “Water Barons”: Wall Street Mega-Banks are Buying up the World’s Water - 2020 report posted at Global Research.
A disturbing trend in the water sector is accelerating worldwide. The new “water barons” — the Wall Street banks and elitist multibillionaires — are buying up water all over the world at unprecedented pace.
Familiar mega-banks and investing powerhouses such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Macquarie Bank, Barclays Bank, the Blackstone Group, Allianz, and HSBC Bank, among others, are consolidating their control over water. Wealthy tycoons such as T. Boone Pickens, former President George H.W. Bush and his family, Hong Kong’s Li Ka-shing, Philippines’ Manuel V. Pangilinan and other Filipino billionaires, and others are also buying thousands of acres of land with aquifers, lakes, water rights, water utilities, and shares in water engineering and technology companies all over the world.
BIG BROTHER and SMART METERS
Last winter I decided against warning my Central Valley California neighbors about the HIDDEN purpose of Smart Meters which is to shut off our water-electricity-gas at will. It sounded too far fetched and conspiracy theory-ish. I didn’t think they’d talk to me. Instead, I focused on danger to health from smart meters.
ABOUT SMART WATER METERS
Smart Water Meter Panel for Apartments, Hotels, etc.:
In California, Exploding “Smart Meters” Spy on Your Water Use - 2015 by Alex Newman, New American Magazine
Government’s latest Orwellian tools to spy on citizens, known as “smart meters,” are literally blowing up and catching fire, risking lives and property to facilitate what even officials acknowledge amounts to intrusive state surveillance. In fact, your home may already have been fitted with one of the dangerous meters in recent years. The latest explosions of the controversial espionage devices, used to monitor citizens’ electricity and water usage, happened in California last week. Amid a government-caused water shortage across the state, bureaucrats are hoping to use the hazardous meters to catch citizens consuming more than their government-approved water rations. As more and more “smart” meters explode and burst into flames, though, citizens concerned about safety — not to mention privacy and liberty — are increasingly fighting back.
Freedom Advocates is a California public interest grassroots project.
"What Is Unsustainable?" Reading between the lines…
According to the U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals, which uses an "inverse language" -- whose meanings are the reverse, i.e., good means bad, help means harm, etc. -- water is unsustainable.
