Letters to the Editor: Yo-yo water restrictions in Southern California make no sense (via latimesopinion )
I wish I could figure out those Californians. They have been complaining interminably, year after year, about suffering a drought, farmland drying up, dried lake mud cracking, the water table dropping and a growing bathtub ring around Lake Mead.
Suddenly, we’re allowed to forget all that because there is too much water. Now, we have floods, landslides and ocean-view mansions dropping into the sea. Then, with the temerity to suggest that yes, we are still in a drought though it may not feel like one, they tell us that maybe people can begin to use a little more water.
The next thing you know, they’ll be claiming that the Colorado River regularly produces 18 million acre feet of water each year for California. How long do we have to put up with those folks taking day trips in a clown car?Many people stepped up and conserved water before and during the mandatory restrictions. I can only hope that most continue to do so . But many will return to their old water-wasting ways, if they ever reduced their usage at all.
I’m for keeping the mandatory restrictions so we might avoid what was also reported in another article in The Times: Nevada lawmakers are
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