I guess there's a price to be charged for everything

Vic, I seriously don't get this whole water thing. I mean why the hell do people pay for something that's FREE? They did a survey a few months back where they bottled regular tap water compared to store bought bottled water & asked people on the street which one tastes better. No bullshit but I believe 6 out of 10 people stopped (not knowing which one was which) said the tap water taste fresher.

 

...high ticket prices for concessions at a ball park?...shocker.

 

I won't even touch this one....It would take a novel to state the disastrous water policies, and conditions out here in the Mojave Desert, ....and....Southern California.

Most of So.Cal's. water comes from the Northern part of the State, predominantly the snow pack off the High Sierra Nevada Mt's.

Water bills here have seen an increase of 280 percent in many areas. To a point now, water wells, (what WAS) free water, are now taxed obscenely. Arizona, Phoenix moreso, and Vegas, as well as all of So. Cal. have way to many frigging people. This area will consume all the water they can from the Pacific, to the Rockies, if one would let them.

Wars over the Colorado River shed, b/t AZ. & CA. & NV. Too many damn people, living in a non-water shed area. Growing exponentially beyond forecasts, or reason. The costs of water here is extreme, but then it should be in a fricking desert. No. Californian's traditionally despise So. Californian's for stealing "their water", for emptying the Owens Valley watershed, for destroying wildlife and habitate.

I'm not getting myself even started on this sore point. On top of a 3 year drought, what could one expect, in a Desert. Where everyone thinks still, a golden apple awaits them in this shit hole....I'm done......off my pulpit....floors yours.....!!

 

On top of a 3 year drought. The entire South Western States were warned more than 30 years ago, to get reservoirs built to retain what little rain shed we do get. Nothing happened until approx. 7 years ago, and the very few tiny reservoirs they did finally build in So. Cal are a flipping fools joke, not enough to use to flush your toilet. Now this area is in more of a conundrum than they will ever admit.

No DE-salination efforts to speak of either. Yet now, who wants to drink from the Pacific, even if its DE-salinized? There's enough sewage, even radioactive waste from Fukijima, who the hell eats fish out the Pacific, do it with a Geiger counter.....I'm sick of Caly....yet, go down to Luzianna, where water shed is more than abundant, and you will find some of the most polluted undrinkable sewage water from what once were "blue bayous"...now septic systems...well close enough....(damn it I said I wasn't going to touch this one)....

Hopefully perhaps.....California will slide into the Ocean....how many of you remember the news story from the late 60s, (when it began, and has on occasion been a school topic, ie. CA. sliding into the Ocean, or L.A. becoming Frisco's neighbor?) We won't see it in our day, but if Earth's inhabitants don't destroy the Planet first; its damn near a certainty in 10s or 100s of thousands of years, one day yes, L.A. will be suburb of Frisco or vice versa....!!!

 

and "if California slides into the Ocean, like the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this Hotel will be standing, until I pay my bill"
(Warren Zevon-1976) - ("Desperadoes Under the Eaves")

 

Less most restaurants here, but all fast food joints, convenience markets, baseball stadiums, most, not all, will charge you full price for a cup of water with ice, as they would a soda or beer....not cool....$3.50 at Jacobs Field looks like a good deal from
this eagles nest out here.....!!

 

Badly needed, I expected to see them in place when I moved out here in 1970 as a teenager. Still only one exists that I know of, and its not making a dent in anything. Calif. Politics would rather spend taxpayer money to build a bullet train from Vegas to L.A. than ensure 30 million people have a future of water to drink.....

in the mean time....me.....

"all the salty margaritas in Los Angeles; I'm going to drink them up"

 

ah shid, I did in fact get myself worked up....oh well...

where did I put that bottle of Geritol, or was it Valium, LMAO....

 

Water is free? Who the hell are you kidding. Heck gyms here want to raise monthly dues because people are using the gym to shower rather than at home.

They are shutting down San Onefre nuclear power plant when it could be converted to a desalinization plant running off the reactor shutdown process, but noooooooo, the ocean huggers are having a conniption. This state is fucked. Next best location I can get transferred to is the Seattle office. At least they recently legalized short barreled rifled and suppressors to go with the free pot and $15/hr minimum wage. Trading in the nanny state for the libertine state I guess.

 

Everyday I fill 3 bottles of water from the sink, I stick it in the fridge & presto, cold bottled water just like that.

 

Right...we have water meters on our homes....pay by the gallon.

 

The tap water at Yankee stadium in nasty... that's why we have to pay for water....

 

You fill up a few bottles the night before & bring them with you.

 

You can't bring it in though....

 

They don't let you do that...

 

Tom- Shall I call you the Libertine or Johnny Depp...??? You carry penis-cillin right, you should of your going by the Libertine, you have to carry on the names tradition....(you did see the movie of the same title right)?

If you do go to Seattle, please take me along, I will even travel in your suitcase if you fly.... (My Mom's parents lived in Seattle-Kirkland, Renton, Everett, and Bremerton Island)....

BTW- I get my bottled water trucked in from San Onofre, you mean its still a Nuclear Reactor, and I'm drinking Hazardous Waste???? Damn, I've been wondering why my bedroom's been glowing at night....!

I've also grown a 3rd eye. Took a trip to Calcutta and Kushmar a year ago, everyone thought I was Khrishna in the flesh....NTM-my webbed feet....I can yep, walk on water....