California residents will not be fined $ 1000 per day for a shower and laundry in one day

In California, the law on limiting showering and washing on the same day is vigorously debated.

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Taking into account the two laws on water conservation, signed last week by Governor Jerry Brown, the far-right financial blog called Zero hedge reported on sunday that California residents can be fined $ 1000 per day if he takes a shower and launders it on the same day.

“If you don't plan to comply, it will be cheaper to move,” the blog post says.

Information that appears to have appeared on a site calledThe organic prepper"Was widespread in Twitter and Facebook. She began to quote several conservative websites, including Breitbart.

Joe Walsh, a conservative radio host and former congressman with 139 000 subscribers in Twitter, shared a link to a blog post on Monday and added: “California is terrible. Just awful".

Republican Devin Nunes, did not refer to this message, but expressed his disappointment in his blog. He wrote that Californians would face draconian constraints due to "the environment and the democrats."

“Californians don’t want to have to choose between doing laundry and showering,” he said.

However, these statements are incorrect. The police will not knock on the door anytime soon if a local resident takes a shower and erase the same day.

The fact is that the two bills, AB 1668 and SB 606, establish general guidelines for water agencies that will follow in the aftermath of the drought in California.

Water agencies will be asked to have their customers limit the use of indoor water to an average of 55 gallons per person per day, reducing to 50 gallons by year 2030.

Democrat Lowra Friedman, author of AB 1668, accused Zero Hedge, Nunes and others in the spread of "pure fiction."

“I want people to stop scaring other people with these things,” she said.

In accordance with the bills signed by Brown, individual water agencies will have to take into account the strategy in 55 gallons for their own purposes of increasing water use efficiency, but this is just one part of the calculations.

Government regulators, along with local water agencies, will also set limits on how much water can be used for watering lawns and in pools. Outdoor use occupies the lion's share of total consumption in most parts of California.

However, water use standards for irrigation and in the basin will vary greatly from area to area.

The law provides that in places such as Sacramento, more water is used for outdoor use than in coastal areas, where there is less space, and cool weather reduces the need for water.

New regulations also encourage water suppliers to replace their old infrastructure, as a result of which the state is losing millions of gallons of water.

The idea behind the legislation is that all of these factors—internal standards, restrictions on outdoor water use, improving the efficiency of water systems—would be included in a “utility water budget.”

Californians switched to more efficient use of water, as their old shower systems wear out with dishwashers, Gomberg said.

Plus, even if you have an 40-gallon washing machine, every person living in your family probably won't have to turn it on separately every day. And even if they do, their neighbor probably won't.

According to Gomberg, several cities, including San Francisco and Santa Cruz, already consume on average less 55 gallons per person per day for indoor and outdoor use.

In the Gomberg house, located in the bay area, gallons of water per person are used daily from 25 to 35.

Gomberg said the 55-gallon rate is not new. State legislators established it as a standard for indoor use almost 10 years ago, and this is more than allowed in many European countries.

So what about fines of 1000 dollars?

Ultimately, the new legislation says water providers that don't comply could face fines of up to $1000 a day or more if the governor declares a drought emergency.

But it is water agencies that will be fined, not individual tariff payers.

So how difficult would it be to meet the standard in 55 gallons?

It is easy, according to the Alliance's estimates of water use efficiency.

Imagine a family of four living in a house with old, inefficient toilets, old faucets, old showers, an old dishwasher and a washing machine on 40 gallons. If each of them took a shower of 8 minutes, they washed the clothes and turned on the dishwasher every day, they would use a little less than 60 gallons per person per day.

Replace the washer with a high-efficiency washer, and the family—without upgrading toilets, sinks, showers or dishwashers—would use about 54 gallons per person per day.

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