CA: Gov. Brown orders mandatory water restrictions (25% reduction statewide)

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Hopefully they are serious about restrictions on agriculture this time. They use 80% of the water, so it is going to make a bigger dent then low-flow toilets and lawn watering limits.

The thing about restaurants not giving water to customers unless they ask for it is particularly silly since the food they serve requires hundreds of gallons per entree to produce.

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I guess it was foolish to ever think that some 40 million-odd people, all of that agribusiness and ranching, etc. wouldn't have exerted strain on resources, especially considering that this is the Western U.S.

"In short, we are entering an era of limits" - Jerry Brown, 1976.

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I suspect that the restaurant thing was more about getting the message out about the need to conserve. if they make you ask for water you are confronted with it and more likely to conserve back at home.

So they think someone should be implicitly shamed if they want a glass of Ice Water with their food? Really? Not everybody likes to drink soda every single time.

Don't they ask customers what they want to drink anyways? They will just say "ice water please".

This particular provision is just silly. Either that or I am just utterly misinterpreting the provision.

Clearly they should drink milk instead, which requires 1000 times as much water.

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Random but, Cali will have like 20 electoral votes in 50 years.

This drought has totally hurt population growth in the bay area. Houses in San Francisco are dirt cheap.