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Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:
Maybe instead of allocating individuals water ....social engineers from putting their boot on the necks of peoples lives by allocating the amount of water people will get per day while allowing everything else in the state to "carry on as normal".
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I clearly explained to you that the bill is not “allocating “ water, nor regulating “individuals” and rather than reply you just go on repeating your falsehood Why is the your chosen tactic? Is it because you know your claims are wrong but want to keep repeating them anyway?
You can dress a pig up anyway you want but it's still a pig. So is the fact that when you tell people they can only use a certain amount of a resource it becomes their "allotment".
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al·lot·ment
əˈlätmənt/Submit
noun
the amount of something allocated to a particular person.
"the gadget shuts off the television set when a kid has used up his allotment"
synonyms: quota, share, ration, grant, allocation, allowance, slice; informalcut
"each member received an allotment of new shares"
UShistorical
a piece of land deeded by the government to a Native American, as part of the division of tribally held land.
BRITISH
a plot of land rented by an individual for growing vegetables or flowers.
So, please feel free to explain again how restricting the amount of water a person has the right to use isn't an allocation and for the record nowhere in the law does it say that since it's a state wide law so long as the individual utilities don't average out over 55 gallons per person they've met their goals.
What I heard from the guys in California is that they're going to be installing "smart" water meters like the "smart" hydro meters and if that's true it means your theory of everybody can use as much water as they want so long as the collective doesn't exceed their individual quota's just flew out the window along with the pig.
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California lifted its mandatory water restrictions in May but much of the state still has a rain deficit. We look at how water utilities are adapting to a drier future.A wet winter in the northern part of California has contributed to the lifting of a statewide water limit.
And July stats from the US Drought Monitor show about 60% of the state is still in severe drought, down from about 95% one year ago.
Southern California however is a different story with two or three years rain deficit to catch up on and an estimated 66 million dead trees in the forests since the drought began five years ago.
Not surprising then that out of 108 water utilities under the California Public Utilities Commission, more are rallying towards the deployment of smart water meters.
To date, the adoption of smart water meters and other sustainable water management technologies have lowered water leakages and usage by 20% in the US, according to Technavio data.
In addition to enhancing their management of water networks, utilities in California are also being pushed by regulatory mandates to install smart meters.
The rollouts are expected to help the utilities to meet the state governor's 2015 call for a 25% reduction in water usage as a measure to lower the effects of the drought which has affected California for the past decade.
California smart water meter rollouts
Four suppliers in both the first and second quarter of 2016 deployed and announced the installation of the metering system under trial and mass rollout projects in line with the governors' call.
Some have also announced plans to kick start their smart water meter projects before year end in a bid to upgrade their existing infrastructure which have limited optimal revenue collections.
Recently, the Santa Fe Irrigation District approved its plan to replace its existing 7,300 analogue water meters with the new smart water meters in an effort to improve its customer satisfaction by doing away with estimated billing.
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The utility firm is hoping to help its customers to use water more wisely by implementing the US$5.5 million programme as from this August through to 2021.
Commenting on the rollout of smart water meters, Bill Hunter, engineering manager of Santa Fe Irrigation District, said: “This is a primary tool to facilitate water conservation.”
In early June, the California state-owned water utility company East Valley Water District also entered into a US$2 million contract with water works equipment supplier Equarius Waterworks of Torrance to deploy smart water meters in a bid to address the scarcity of water caused by the drought.
The utility aims to enhance its network management through real time insights on how the distribution network is operating including the provision of notifications in the occurrence of water leakages and meter tempering.
The project will be funded by a loan granted the local water district by the California Department of Water Resources.
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