Los Angeles: Driest Ever
June 7th, 2007Throwing trash in toilets? Does anyone understand this? Are they trying to flush their empty Evian water bottles?
Via: Reuters:
Los Angeles residents were urged on Wednesday to take shorter showers, reduce lawn sprinklers and stop throwing trash in toilets in a bid to cut water usage by 10 percent in the driest year on record.
With downtown Los Angeles seeing a record low of 4 inches
of rain since July 2006 — less than a quarter of normal — and with a hot, dry summer ahead, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said the city needed “to change course and conserve water to steer clear of this perfect storm.”
It is the driest year since rainfall records began 130 years ago.
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And to think I used to live in Anaheim and Orange long ago. It got dry as I remember, but it would from time to time rain in sheets. Always a feast or famine situation.
wouldn’t be because a lot of people realise that it’s cheaper to flush than to pay to dispose of your trash??
When I asked my father why he urinated in the sink, he said it saves a lot of water if you just rinse the sink afterward instead of flushing a toilet.
I know friends who work in sewage treatment, and they say the amount of trash in the sewage is amazing. Everything from tampons and the like to regular garbage, and yes, even water bottles.
PeterLoneTree:
Interesting. People who want to save water, however, should not follow the advice that says don’t flush after merely urinating. What happens over a period of about two years is that mineral salts from urine will build up in the toilet-bowl lower passage-way called the toilet trap, and this will inhibit the ability of the toilet to flush completely about half the time, and then all the time if this mistreatment is continued.
Residential use of water is trivial. It is the extremely wasteful agricultural and industrial water use practices that consume water. Where are the calls for agriculture and industry to reduce water use? But it’s a moot point. Erecting enormous cities in the desert in the first place is at best a whimsical enterprise and at worst sheer idiocy. Overpopulation turns us all into whimsical idiots — those of us that it doesn’t turn into psychopaths, that is.
Guess what, we live in an ecosystem. Southern California was sucking all the water from the Northern California delta and voila, the ecosystem, especially fish population, crashed.
Finally a judge shut off the pumps and now we have the MSM reporting requests for less flushing, with absolutely no explanation of why.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/06/04/18424682.php
Hmmm. We live with a well and a septic system, and five years of not flushing after urination certainly hasn’t caused any sort of problem for us.
And … *reducing* lawn sprinklers?! Why in the name of heaven do these people even HAVE lawns? I can’t be sympathetic. What a stupid waste of resources.
some people will throw a cig, cotton ball, small sq of tpaper, cotton swabs and the like and will flush… wasting water. I THINK this is what is meant by trash.
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“And … *reducing* lawn sprinklers?! Why in the name of heaven do these people even HAVE lawns? I can’t be sympathetic. What a stupid waste of resources.”
Modern-day Sheople need lawns in their habitat, green grass is a very basic need for sheople, keeps them busy chewing and away from rioting. We don’t want riots, do we?
Kermujin:
Your lack of problem from not flushing after urination could be because your system is different or because you keep the bowl including the entrance of the trap clean. I’m speaking from my own experience. I stopped doing that and the problem went away after a year, perhaps regular flushing eroded the mineral salt build-up.
This webpage attests to the validity of the claim:
http://www.toiletology.com/lazy-03.shtml
I, too, have a septic system and have religiously not flushed after urinating over a period of more than six years, with no problems.
But–the toilet flushes a lot better since I replaced it a couple of years ago, leading me to believe there was something in the trap of the old toilet. Perhaps I should check to see what’s in there. (The old commode is still out in the shed.) I have found that the toilet traps of poorly functioning toilets contain small items: spoons, baby food jars, and assorted toys.