Texas drought forces police to search for any illegal lawn watering.
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Most people in Texas have wells and use well water for everything involving their land. I'm pretty sure this restriction is only on the use of city water.
[QUOTE=Sgt_Rock;16581951]Most people in Texas have wells and use well water for everything involving their land. I'm pretty sure this restriction is only on the use of city water.[/QUOTE]
Most people in rural areas*
[QUOTE=Reason_Man;16581979]Most people in rural areas*[/QUOTE]
err, my bad yea. Of course, anyone downtown won't have wells and won't need water to water lawns, for obvious reasons; and anyone in track housing, tight suburbia won't have wells. But any neighborhood with plots of land around .75 and above acreage will more than likely have a well in Texas, or at least have the option to drill/dig one. Where I live feels no different than suburbia in any other state (I travel a lot), it's just houses aren't jam-packed and almost all of us have wells.
[QUOTE=Sgt_Rock;16582059]err, my bad yea. Of course, anyone downtown won't have wells and won't need water to water lawns, for obvious reasons; and anyone in track housing, tight suburbia won't have wells. But any neighborhood with plots of land around .75 and above acreage will more than likely have a well in Texas, or at least have the option to drill/dig one. Where I live feels no different than suburbia in any other state (I travel a lot), it's just houses aren't jam-packed and almost all of us have wells.[/QUOTE]
Well, I lived in a city, just like any other, that didn't have a need for wells but there were a few people that did have them, I guess it's paying off for them now.
[quote]There's no threat to the area's drinking water supply, said Bob Rose, a [b]meteorologist[/b] with the river authority.[/quote]
what
[QUOTE=Takato;16569964]Happened in England a few years ago (I think it was called the holes pipe ban). When there is little water, people are encouraged (and forced) not to water their lawn or garden in order to save water, so there is more to drink.[/QUOTE]
I remember that.
Now we get flood warnings every summer >_>
[QUOTE=Dr.C;16278171]In elementary school they tell you water is a renewable resource and it never runs out
water is running out (at least our freshwater) [/QUOTE]
Technically it is a renewable resource that doesn't really "run out", it's just an extremely unwieldy renewable resource.
"Water running out" usually really means "water not getting to the right places". Water is unpredictable and often doesn't go where you want it to go.
In this case, because of the weather and a number of other things, the water isn't ending up in Texas.
I'm in Texas and I haven't heard anything about a drought. Heck it just rained on and off for a week a few weeks ago.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;16277451]I can see a porno where some barely clothed chicks are playing outside in the water then some cop comes over and threatens to arrest them unless they suck his dick[/QUOTE]
His special breathalyzer?
Wow, that's gotta suck. Where I live we have enough water to use absolutely fine drinkable water to water our lawns and flush our toilets.
No one fucking cares in San Antonio though, we run our sprinklers and shit on low and we have a fence up so passing cars couldn't see.
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[QUOTE=Alyx Zark;16606213]No one fucking cares in San Antonio though, we run our sprinklers and shit on low and we have a fence up so passing cars couldn't see.
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The same for outside SA, my neighbor waters his lawn and he hasn't even gotten a warning.
[QUOTE=Sgt_Rock;16581951]Most people in Texas have wells and use well water for everything involving their land. I'm pretty sure this restriction is only on the use of city water.[/QUOTE]
Wells run dry too, The wells around use are going out, and ares is about to go we fear.
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[QUOTE=nrgata;16589014]I'm in Texas and I haven't heard anything about a drought. Heck it just rained on and off for a week a few weeks ago.[/QUOTE]
It did, but we need rain 10 days straight, constantly, pouring down HARD to fix this problem, rain for a day is more like false hope right now.
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