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Bruce Bothwell's avatar

We have friends in a Northern Ca. town who have a privatized water utility. They were told that home water reclamation and collection is illegal (including rain water) because that water “belongs” to the water company! I guess you only rent water now, then you have to return it!

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Jessica's avatar
3dEdited

That's one of the most dystopian things I've ever heard, but I can't say it hasn't crossed my mind as a possible way things could get even worse--governments and corporations actively preventing us from trying to save ourselves. Can you say what town?

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Richard Doherty's avatar

California law, specifically the Rainwater Capture Act of 2012, made it legal to collect rainwater from rooftops, provided the systems comply with the State Water Resources Board's requirements. Therefore, no Northern California cities completely prohibit collecting rainwater. Local gov't can restrict how the system collects water and is contructed and can restrict its use to irregation, car washing, etc---non-potable use.

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Michael's avatar

Man, that's harsh (and possibly illegal). What's next? Air?

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James's avatar

I feel like I shouldn't be liking this comment, I need a horror emoji or something.

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Elidema's avatar

The water is being hijacked in the service of collecting data and keeping to see our ever move and though to control everything.

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Robot Bender's avatar

We have a section of tin roof over our patio, as well as a tin shed. I need to set up another water barrel or two using them.

In a related thought: Do you think a sheet of tin creased into the right shape and held up by a few 2 x 4s , emptying into a barrel work for those who don't have tin roofs? 🤔

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Jessica's avatar

Yeah, I think it could work. There's at least a few folks on YouTube who make things like that, even out in Arizona.

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Marx Marvelous's avatar

I thought you wanted to kill all humans, Bender.

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Robot Bender's avatar

I didn't say today. 😉

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Michael's avatar

Well RB may not want to.

But I definitely do and yesterday would have been too late. We've messed up this planet big-time and now all we can think of is ourselves and compare our prepper notes. What about all those other species that are going bye bye? Don't we owe them anything? Sooner we humans are extinct the better and don't argue it. I've got more PhDs than you've had hot breakfasts 😉

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Robot Bender's avatar

Why should I when you all are doing such a great job? All I need to do is watch with a beer and cigar.

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Michael's avatar

A beer bottle in front of me is better than a frontal lobotomy

Heck I'll have both. Dark times.

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Robot Bender's avatar

Dark times, dark beer. 😉 🍺 🍻

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Justin McAffee's avatar

"Instead, they’ve issued requests for their citizens to delete old photos and emails from their computers to “reduce pressure” on the grid.

What a bold move…"

I laughed out loud. :-D

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Maya J's avatar

I cried.

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Justin McAffee's avatar

Also a fair reaction.

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Elizabeth Fenlon's avatar

Save AI? By deleting photos? AI will be the downfall of society. Especially because the people in charge of it have no souls at all. It’s frightening that advisers are telling clients to invest in water. Jesus.

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Digital Canary 💪💪🇨🇦🇺🇦🗽's avatar

Investing in water is like investing in the Military Industrial Complex, or Soylent Green.

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Elizabeth Fenlon's avatar

True that

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Marx Marvelous's avatar

I often wonder who will run the world better, the billionaires or the robots that will make us all slaves. It's honestly a toss-up.

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Digital Canary 💪💪🇨🇦🇺🇦🗽's avatar

The trillionaires who project power through their robots to enslave us, you silly goose!

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Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

Feels like the empire’s kitchen is burning, and the high priests of profit are telling us to blow out candles on a cupcake.

Deleting emails will not quench a thirsty earth. Shorter showers will not heal a gutted water table.

They know the wells are running dry. They just prefer baptizing our guilt instead of their greed.

We do have rain barrels and British Berkefeld water filter. That's like carrying a pocket knife into a siege -- better than nothing, and sometimes just what you need to make it through the day. But if the siege drags on, we'll be looking for allies, bigger tools, and a way to move when the well runs dry.

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Jesse's avatar

♾️ enamalized metal roofing sheets are much safer then galvinized🌏👍👍

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Marx Marvelous's avatar

Calling officials is nice I guess, but really let's be honest. It's too fucking late. Sorry leftists. We don't get to be pacifists anymore. Get a gun. Learn how to use it. Sorry if that offends.

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Jessica's avatar

I don't disagree, but I figure I need to at least toss it in there, especially the part about seeing who's aware before showing them your tin foil hat collection. :)

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Terry Brown's avatar

I know plenty of left leaning people whose arsenals would make a lot of conservatives blush with embarrassment. It may or may not be the right choice. It’s hard to carry that arsenal with you if you have to run.

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Marx Marvelous's avatar

That's good to hear honestly. But notice I said A gun. Not an arsenal. That IS pointless, you can only fire one of those things at once. Something with plentiful ammo, parts and is reliable. The AK-47, is the People's choice. Helping smash capitalism since 1947.

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Michael's avatar

Not at all!

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Digital Canary 💪💪🇨🇦🇺🇦🗽's avatar

https://open.substack.com/pub/digitalcanary/p/the-art-of-simple-sabotage

Tell all your neighbours, tell all your friends & family. It’s clobberin’ time …

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Guus Brugman HM's avatar

5Gb of email: 3ml

backup of 10,000 phone photos: 5ml

shared dropbox folder: 2ml

using AI to render Uncle Doug as Shrek: 50,000l

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Gawain's avatar

Um, no the request isn't made to conserve energy. It's to "conserve" historical information. No family photos, no family. This article isn't cynical enough.

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Gary Mackender's avatar

Due to massive public pressure, Tucson rejected Project Blue, an Amazon-based data center proposal that would suck us dry: https://open.substack.com/pub/garymackender/p/friday-homestead-dispatch-957?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Sun's avatar

Make them stop using that water. The UK is still a functioning democracy.

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Sun's avatar
3dEdited

Since last summer, when they held a parliamentary election and Labour won a majority. Also since the 1969 passage of the People’s Representation Act.

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Michael's avatar

Since when?

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Vicki's avatar

The press release also says “Water companies have committed to reducing leakage by 50% from a 2017-18 baseline by 2050”. 30 years to reduce leaks by 50%?!

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Abigail Thomas's avatar

The only advice I have for my kids is live somewhere it rains. Now I need to tell them they need a metal roof. and the etcetera. I'll be dead before I need one, I hope.

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Sun's avatar

Don’t give up.

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Kim's avatar

How will they use our photos to train AI if we have to delete them?

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Terry Brown's avatar

"Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people."

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Stephen Thair's avatar

Agreed, it's important to not be afraid, because as we all know "Fear is the..." 😉

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