Your entire post is invalidated by your inability to use the proper "there/their/they're"

You should write a piece on how the rich (and the upper middle class suburbanites) are getting out of paying to modernize the aging water infrastructure as well. They could give a shit about the crumbling city pipes where the poors live since theirs are shiny and new out in the suburbs. This was one of San Diego's new…

LADWP says you can *only* water three times a week. Maybe that would keep the grass alive, I'm not sure. But why waste even that amount of water? In so many other places it's perfectly acceptable to let your lawn wither in the summer. It will come back in the fall when the rain starts again. Water the parks and let…

Honestly its ridiculous. I work in westwood and I see city employees moving debris off the sidewalks with a hose in the morning. Further, I was in Palm Springs this weekend.. LUSH golf courses and sprinklers running day in day out.

Montecito was able to cut its water usage by 48 percent by laying down some pretty strict conservation efforts, like prohibiting homeowners from refilling pools or watering their polo fields.

Many Montecito residents have their own wells from which they can take as much water as they like. Astonishingly, California does not regulate groundwater pumping! That needs to change.

Actually, at least in the examples they talked about in the article, the water is coming from their direct neighbors (Carpinteria and Goleta) which are California and ARE suffering from a drought.

What this article doesn't mention is the asinine antiquated groundwater issues in California (hint: there's very little if any). So the rich guise than toss some cash to farmers to toss some of their groundwater to them and skirt the issue.

I am by no means rich but (I'm embarrassed to say) I live in a city in Orange County (SoCal) that wastes water... Every single night, all the sprinklers in my apartment complex go off to keep the lush lawns, well, lush. Excess water just drains down the rain gutters and under the streets. Broken sprinklers just…

mine is — but it's always dead :*(

Does it count if I voluntarily killed my lawn?

Most places aren't actually PUNISHING anyone for using too much water yet. Montecito does at least have an aggressive fine structure in place. And if customers go over their allocation more than twice, they'll come out and install a pressure restrictor that renders most sprinklers useless (insufficient pressure to…

There's nowhere in CA that can actually spare it, though; the *entire state* is in moderate drought or much, much worse. Driving water from out of state is an evil of its own: really heavy. Most likely they're buying it from corrupt megafarmers on the west side of the Central Valley.

Meanwhile, in the Central Valley, groundwater overpumping floods almond groves for export to China while people living nearby have no running water as they see their wells run dry.

It's true, send me one photo of ANYONE in LA who has let their lawn die. Please?

Put the fine on a sliding scale rather than a linear one...pretty sure there is a pain level that even the rich will feel at some point.

It's not just the rich. I'm in a not so prosperous part of L.A. County and all the lawns are still green.

That's nothing compared to the 93-year old pipes blowing up and wasting water.

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