The governor of California has created a permanent law rationing indoor water use for all residents to 55 gallons a day.

@SimplyTracie like I said wasteful. We don't use half that amount in UK, possibly rest of EU too.

Got to love that totalitarianism

Sustainability... humans will never understand it..

I wonder if Southern California with all of their pools and golf courses will adhere to that law?

When California has 20 million people in it there was enough water most of the time. Now that it has 40 million they have a issue. There's been nothing done about the water issue, nothing. San Diego has a desalination unit to water lawns and golf courses. It cost 1 billion. But yet Jerry would rather spend 3 billion on his train to nowhere rather than do something about the water.

Rip commie-fornia

WATER IN CALIFORNIA: WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN;
First there will be ordinances introduced banning certain outdoor water use, using mains water. Some people will install tanks to receive private water trucks and put up signs to inform others they are not breaking the law by watering a lawn or filling a pool.
This will be reinforced by increasing charges for metered water . And at the same time desalination plants will be built to increase the water supply. People will adapt , car washes will thrive and recycle their own water and a market balance point will be reached where people will conserve to save money and pay for what they are will to use, either through carted water, or drilling a bore.
This is not the first place this has happened.. Nor will it be the last. Fresh water is in short supply the world over. This is just the first time Americans have noticed it.

I think my son uses that in one shower :(

I think I read somewhere that almonds and alfalfa combined use 25% of california's water. That's nuts! No pun intended.

My grandparents in their early lives lived off the grid and ran a 20,000 acre farm. City water, gas, electricity and sewer eventually came to them, but they still retained huge outdoor cisterns for most of their water needs. Water from the roof drained into the cisterns and was used for everything but drinking and cooking water, and the upstairs bathroom. To render an estimate, the cisterns probably held 25,000 to 50,000 gallons.

Long droughts would run them low and they knew when to start being extra conservative. They kept an out-house functional for when things got seriously desperate.

But they already knew how to be self sufficient and city water was a luxury. For us city slickers already living on 100 to 200+ gallons a day, it's gonna be a bit of a transition.

Turn it into a challenge and an adventure :)

What’s left of California might just be ready to turn Red!

If it’s the water cliff it won’t be a matter of can you live with a limited supply, but how to live with a limited supply

We will be recycling our water locally in houses... 😳

What about watering your garden? Wouldn't that use far more water than what's used inside?

I don't know?🤔I'm glad I left California when I did. They are pouring into Oregon like you wouldn't believe!😰Years ago there was a song about the earth quakes and it being destroyed, people were actually waiting for that to happen. There has been a water shortage there off and on since the 70's. Oh, I found that song for ya!💞🎶[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2ZXco32IRU]

This is why I want to move

Agree , but I’m sure it is not being done In a evil way, water crisis has always been a problem on that side .... either pay the fine that comes with over consumption or move to a place like Nyc.... here was have an amazing water system & none of our reserves have ever needed to come in effect ..

Its those almond gives that are the problem

A typical washing machine uses 25+ gallons per load ... a shower 7-15

A swimming pool uses thousands of gallons

I heard Cape Town, South Africa is down to 3 liters a day per person, so things could be worse.

We will be waiting for a Second Coming to turn all that Californian wine into water.

How would anyone know how much is being used indoors versus outdoors?

That includes the water used in flushing toilets, assuming californians do that but they might not.

No idea.But 55 gallons sounds a lot to me!

Rural California has the water ... time they learned to "negotiate" (sends Trump to teach them)

50/55 Gallons makes many ice cubes.

Most people would be surprised just how little water that is.

Water soon will be the new gold or oil

Hahahaha! And Rome burns !

Not sure I understand the mother angle here. You get 55 gallons per kid, too.

It's doable. Probably I the future such a regulation will be lifted when the water infrastructure becomes more robust.

Wow, that is just crazy. I am so glad I no longer have city water, no bill, etc

Thats a sht load of water! You guys are wasteful as fk!

well..probably needs to happen tbf. thats life.

That’s a lot of water for one individual per day ! , if you wash up or use the dishwasher for a family it’s the same amount , the same with laundry surely ?

How will they know if you got the water from the inside faucet or the outside one?

Watch the movie Chinatown with Jack Nickolson. It's all about the water.

I could and probably do, but regardless.

On the other side of the coin, that's what happens when your state grows a bunch of cities and farms in a desert and drains it's very limited water sources overpopulating a desert that doesn't have enough water to support the population.