Rich Californians: You’ll have to pry the hoses from our cold, dead hands

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  • June 13, 2015 at 8:23 pm #26223
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    Rich Californians: You’ll have to pry the hoses from our cold, dead hands

    RANCHO SANTA FE, CALIF. — Drought or no drought, Steve Yuhas resents the idea that it is somehow shameful to be a water hog. If you can pay for it, he argues, you should get your water.

    People “should not be forced to live on property with brown lawns, golf on brown courses or apologize for wanting their gardens to be beautiful,” Yuhas fumed recently on social media. “We pay significant property taxes based on where we live,” he added in an interview. “And, no, we’re not all equal when it comes to water.”

    Yuhas lives in the ultra-wealthy enclave of Rancho Santa Fe, a bucolic Southern California hamlet of ranches, gated communities and country clubs that guzzles five times more water per capita than the statewide average. In April, after Gov. Jerry Brown (D) called for a 25 percent reduction in water use, consumption in Rancho Santa Fe went up by 9 percent.

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    Selfish and stupid.

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    June 15, 2015 at 11:45 am #26305
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    Stupid bastards. v

    June 18, 2015 at 4:50 am #26530
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    I saw this story and I was surprised.

    Having lived in CA for quite awhile I’m surprised he hadn’t figured it out….

    You build an underground tank for lawn watering and you install a drip system. Is it expensive for a multi acre lawn? yeah. But it’s that or get rid of the lawn.

    Then, once you’ve got the drip system in place, you just TRUCK IN THE DAMN WATER JUST LIKE THEY HAVE HAD TO DO IN MALIBU CANYON FOREVER JUST TO TAKE SHOWERS AND DO LAUNDRY AND SHUT THE FUCK UP… IF EDDIE VAN HALEN CAN DO IT… Parts of Malibu as late as the late 80s still didn’t have county water service, so some of those multi-million dollar homes in those canyons had to truck the water in and store the water in pretty big underground tanks. I can’t imagine that was easy given the geology of the area, either… between the earthquakes and mudslides…

    Anyway, geesh, this way it’s off the meter and a drip system uses TONS less water than traditional sprinklers. heck, you could get away with a VERY quick spray of the lawn with a hose once every few weeks or once a month. Do it in sections so no day shows a huge spike.

    There are WAYS to do it if Mr. Richie St. Augustine just HAS to have his lawn just right. Bitching because it can’t be easy is the epitome of why we’re in such rapid decline.

    Not that I endorse the copious consumption of water during the drought. Far from it. I only just moved from there in 2008 and lived in SoCal most of my life. But good grief, it’s not like the guy even TRIED to use his damn brain…

    OR…

    They could just understand that they live in the desert for once and stop trying to make Los Angeles look like Hawaii.

    Crazy idea, I know…

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