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An Anonymous Coward writes in with this story from the Press Examiner:
In the state's latest drought-conservation measure, California regulators Wednesday adopted stricter low-flow standards for showerheads in a move designed to save billions of gallons of water annually.
Standards adopted today require that all showerheads sold not exceed 2.0 gallons per minute maximum flow rate as of July 2016.
The commission predicts that the new standards will save more than 2.4 billion gallons of water in the first year and 38 billion gallons after full stock turnover in 10 years. The California Energy Commission voted Wednesday to phase in shower-head efficiency standards, limiting them to just 1.8 gallons a minute after July 2018.
In related news, the San Diego Metropolitan Water District is thanking San Diegans for saving so much water during the shortage that they will need to raise water rates:
San Diego water customers could see their bills climb about 17 percent in the next year under a proposal that would raise rates.
A proposal that city utility officials presented Monday to the Independent Rates Oversight Committee called for overall rate increases of 9.8 percent on Jan. 1, 2016, and another 6.9 percent on July 1, 2016. The increases will cover costs including the increasing price of imported water, and lower sales expected as customers slash water use 16 percent.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2015, @10:14AM
My step father made me loudly count to 60. End of shower. Wash, soap, shampoo, condition, rinse, by the count of 60. Call it 90 seconds of shower at most. Eventually I stopped washing my hair. After a while I made do with rinse quick soap rinse end. That or be belted.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2015, @10:40AM
> After a while I made do with rinse quick soap rinse end. That or be belted.
Hooray for child abuse! We always knew those greens hate children.
Jesus 2016!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2015, @12:34PM
If you had been belted a few times, you wouldn't be such a weinie, Mr. Anthony Weiner.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by dusty monkey on Monday August 17 2015, @02:45PM
Thats exactly the sort of attitude these ultra liberals have. They *would* like to belt you if you dont do what they want. But you are an adult that might defend yourself, so they get the government to force your hand on their behalf.
- when you vote for the lesser of two evils, you are still voting for evil - stop supporting evil -
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2015, @07:40PM
I never really understood why some children would tolerate being beaten. Both my sister and I were of the sort that reciprocity was a moral imperative. Why do so many roll-over and take it? Children are immensely destructive when they mean well and are little sociopathic demons when they set their mind to something. I'd like to think most children would fight back.