How about no. USA is supposed to be about freedom. And if yiu don’t wanna wash your dishes, brush your teeth or take a shower to ‘save’ the environs, then more power to ya.

But I bought a nice car and I like it all shiny so I’m gonna wash it. Less frequently with the ban but still. I dgaf what happens to the water after it runs off my bright and shiny car>

I know this offends you, but why don’t you try worrying more about what you’re gonna do and less about what other people are doing.

This is all well and good but so many counties in cali temporarily banned washing cars at home. You can take ‘em to a professional car wish but it’s overpriced and they are likely to scratch your car. Drought which is now resolving itself slowly.

Well they did a good job if that. I thought we were living in some socialist country …. Oh, wait

they would be fine. They survive the winter all the time

how is that uplifting?

Today I learned

Beat the big problems into the the little people. Rules for thee not for me.

Bats? Ok, ok but what about pangolins? By the way, where's Randy?

Sounds similar to SB/SYV. Cachuma rose 40ft I heard.

The issue for farming near the Colorado river is if a farmer doesn't use all of their water allotment they lose it. A lot of farmers in AZ grow water intensive crops because of this. The issue isn't the farming, we already know how to grow low water crops, it's the laws and bureaucracy around it that prevents any sort of change.

Doesn’t mean jack if we can’t have normal rain fall yearly

Are you even allowed to do that? I know that some western states prevent you from storing rainwater runoff because it "belongs" in the aquifers or some such nonsense.

An article I read this morning on Accuweather said the current snowpack is greater than what they typically see in April at the end of the season. It seems to me that as long as they can hold onto it e.g. we don't get some weird warming spell that melts it all, they should be good for this year.

The news of the recordbreaking snow pack in the Sierras has been interesting to follow. I understand now how the whole Donner party could have been stranded.

And enters the U.S. Flood Monitor

I really wish the news would stop publishing these articles about being out of the drought and all the water we are getting. It just gives people the excuse to use more unnecessarily.

You’re all welcome.

I go out to LA and bring all the rain from coastal east coast with me.

I’m now back over where I belong but at least my team won the national title!

After your comment I did some digging and looks like city won't care if you collect it in bins etc. You will need a permit if you make a reservoir on your property to collect rain water. I will start doing small collection now.

It wasn't even me that made that comment. Also, though it's true we can't 100% predict the future, it's also really, really stupid to say we have no clue. I'm sure you personally don't, but how do you think the weathermen predict rainfall on any given day? Would you say they ultimately "have no clue?" Unless California is drenched in an unprecedented biblical rainfall for months, it's extremely safe to predict how dry it'll be in the future based on how dry it has been for years.

This was a common DIY project especially back when we had a decade-long drought in most of Australia.

IBC tanks are a pallet-sized tank that is commonly used to transport fluids. You can acquire one (or several) of these for a few hundred dollars. Then you can just redirect your downpipe to the tank, put a filter in to catch leaves and other junk, install a hose fitting and you're done.

absolutely I am aware of that. but you you think you know exactly whats coming next by saying by summer it will be dry dry dry. you have no clue. so I said maybe

You realize California is still in "moderate to severe drought," right?

Even if the snowpack is 200% above normal, if the rest of the season is dry, will that be any help?

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No, but that was never about the water, just to fuck with you