MOOD INDIGO: Getting used to tyranny.
Just now, in the California gulag, a law was enacted to forbid the watering of “decorative” grasses, regardless of drought conditions. But it’s okay. We’ve become sort of used to it.
My sense of self-worth, however, resents being told what to do with my water. Sometimes I think of sustaining other non-essential plants…and even taking a shower or washing dishes. But the self-anointed geniuses have already enacted a statute that limits household daily water consumption to 55 gallons per resident for “internal” use, not including landscape irrigation. Since nobody knows how many residents are at any particular address, let alone what water is used indoors versus in the garden, the same “rulers” put the burden of enforcement on the local water districts. Thus far, such authorities have looked the other way.
All this has been done in order to compensate for avoiding the most obvious way of dealing with this issue: increasing reservoir storage capacity and building coastal desalination plants next to nuclear power generating facilities, as has been done near Carlsbad.
Why are we being governed by such stupid jerks? Answer: because we allow it.
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