Metro Vancouver imposes "extraordinary" water restrictions.
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Maybe they should also control everyone going into every day businesses using bathroom facilitiesound::doh:. Pacific center mall food court area bathroom for example, has enormous amount traffic coming and going there. Just think how much water is used everyday through those avenues. Water usage is usage no matter how you slice it.
As usual, the media working its scare tactics to the max. If its becomes an emergency issue.....ban everything RIGHT NOW and scrap this " stage level " bullshit.
Like everything else we hear......I think its all bull crap
Settle down. My lord.Its all bullshit my friend. Again, water usage applies to everything and not just water gardening.
Maybe they should come out and say, point blank that we now have to take 3 showers a week, brush our teeth once a day, one shit per day and maybe 2 pisses per day, that we we conserve water and not waste it by flushing or faucet use pound:.
Oh...we keep our dish washing to a minimal as well
Maybe a good face sitting session, might help you blow off some steam.
hmmm, Mofo who complained about my basketball hoop being barely on the street was out there power washing his whole friken house today.
I love the smell of retribution, smells like Victory muahahaound:
On that note - the news on the radio indicated complaints about neighbours are Way Up!
I love the smell of retribution, smells like Victory muahaha
ound:On that note - the news on the radio indicated complaints about neighbours are Way Up!
that makes no difference to the water quality. If you look at Alberta all the towns up stream of edmonton both take there water and return the water to the river. Take a river that's 1/2 mile wide and Langley adds 10 million L of waste water a day. I would take the water out of the Aquifer any day. A better part of Langley water comes from it now the same for Abbotsford and white Rock.
I hope you don't travel south to California has several toilet to tap plants. http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/l...-System-Worlds-Largest-Expands-211900901.html
http://abc7.com/food/sj-plant-turns-wastewater-into-drinking-water/404030/
I hope you don't travel south to California has several toilet to tap plants. http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/l...-System-Worlds-Largest-Expands-211900901.html
http://abc7.com/food/sj-plant-turns-wastewater-into-drinking-water/404030/
When I lived in Ontario there used to be signs in the washrooms in Guelph to flush the toilets because Brantford needed the water. Could establish this practice in Langley too.
The way water is wasted is sickening. I watch guys shave at the YMCA who stand there for ten minutes with the tap running full out. A tap puts out five litres a minute. They throw 50 litres down the drain in ten minutes. I use the tap only when needed to flush the razor. In the same time about 1litre. We had a guy sit in a cold shower on a hot day for 45 minutes. He put 45 gallons down the drain in that time. Garden hoses can do 1200 litres an hour. Lawn watering is a total waste. People who watered will now have to stop and the water they used will lose its effect. Their lawns will dry up too.
The way water is wasted is sickening. I watch guys shave at the YMCA who stand there for ten minutes with the tap running full out. A tap puts out five litres a minute. They throw 50 litres down the drain in ten minutes. I use the tap only when needed to flush the razor. In the same time about 1litre. We had a guy sit in a cold shower on a hot day for 45 minutes. He put 45 gallons down the drain in that time. Garden hoses can do 1200 litres an hour. Lawn watering is a total waste. People who watered will now have to stop and the water they used will lose its effect. Their lawns will dry up too.
When I lived in Ontario there used to be signs in the washrooms in Guelph to flush the toilets because Brantford needed the water. Could establish this practice in Langley too.
The way water is wasted is sickening. I watch guys shave at the YMCA who stand there for ten minutes with the tap running full out. A tap puts out five litres a minute. They throw 50 litres down the drain in ten minutes. I use the tap only when needed to flush the razor. In the same time about 1litre. We had a guy sit in a cold shower on a hot day for 45 minutes. He put 45 gallons down the drain in that time. Garden hoses can do 1200 litres an hour. Lawn watering is a total waste. People who watered will now have to stop and the water they used will lose its effect. Their lawns will dry up too.
The way water is wasted is sickening. I watch guys shave at the YMCA who stand there for ten minutes with the tap running full out. A tap puts out five litres a minute. They throw 50 litres down the drain in ten minutes. I use the tap only when needed to flush the razor. In the same time about 1litre. We had a guy sit in a cold shower on a hot day for 45 minutes. He put 45 gallons down the drain in that time. Garden hoses can do 1200 litres an hour. Lawn watering is a total waste. People who watered will now have to stop and the water they used will lose its effect. Their lawns will dry up too.
I don't understand this concept of waste ???????? Idling in line because of a fuck'n useless bike lane is waste ....
Water is the most renewable resource that I know of. In a broad sense it never disappears. That YMCA tap water is flowing back to the sea. That water that is thrown on the lawns goes into the ground and either is returned to the sea, evaporated into the air and returns as rain somewhere or goes into an underground aquifer.
The issues to me is the reliance on collection of rain water in the three reservoirs as our source of portable water.
We have spent almost one billion dollar to link up the Seymour reservoir with the Coquitlam reservoir.
http://yourwatermatters.com/vancouv...r-tap-water-820-million-hangs-in-the-balance/
Maybe we could have spent that money on a filtration plant that draws water from the Fraser River as the main source of portable water for the GVRD.
Extract the water from the Fraser, filter and clean it, send it up to the existing three reservoirs and we can maintain the ease of our gravity feed system.
Now we will have a consistent source of water.
With all the industrial plants lining the Fraser for shipping....I'm not sure that would be possible.
To get chemical and sewage free water, out of the Fraser you'd have to source it very far North.
The Cascade Mountains North of Vancouver are clean enough ,and the infastructure is already there.
The snow load was low this year all over the province, even this far North, and what we had, melted a month early. to add to the problem, Vancouver...as your all aware...Hasn't had the normal rainfall.
What I'm seeing in my mountains is everything is maturing early...Grass, berries, wild animals, even the water living creatures are spawning a month too soon. The Oldtimers, and the Indians are saying that we may have an earlier winter,...and it may a shitshow.
To get chemical and sewage free water, out of the Fraser you'd have to source it very far North.
The Cascade Mountains North of Vancouver are clean enough ,and the infastructure is already there.
The snow load was low this year all over the province, even this far North, and what we had, melted a month early. to add to the problem, Vancouver...as your all aware...Hasn't had the normal rainfall.
What I'm seeing in my mountains is everything is maturing early...Grass, berries, wild animals, even the water living creatures are spawning a month too soon. The Oldtimers, and the Indians are saying that we may have an earlier winter,...and it may a shitshow.
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Ms.Fiona
Was just in Southern California where it's supposed to be at RED level drought and water restrictions and all the city grass and parks are bright green but all the residential yards are brown.... Seems like they're good at making rules but not following them..... So glad to come home to some rain the other day....
have to water the municipal grass, so the municipal union workers have something to do
BC isn't the only place with strong unions
BC isn't the only place with strong unions
I just came back from Summerland where there are signs everywhere encouraging people to conserve water, yet the school I drove by had its sprinklers going full blast. I can only imagine that they do this because the cost to reseed/restore damaged grass outweighs the water cost?Was just in Southern California where it's supposed to be at RED level drought and water restrictions and all the city grass and parks are bright green but all the residential yards are brown.... Seems like they're good at making rules but not following them..... So glad to come home to some rain the other day....
80% of California's fresh water consumption is for industrial and agricultural purposes. Their residential water restrictions are symbolic only.Was just in Southern California where it's supposed to be at RED level drought and water restrictions and all the city grass and parks are bright green but all the residential yards are brown.... Seems like they're good at making rules but not following them..... So glad to come home to some rain the other day....
