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Rich Californians: Youll have to pry the hoses from our cold, dead hands
By Rob Kuznia June 13 at 7:35 PM
RANCHO SANTA FE, CALIF. Drought or no drought, Steve Yuhas resents the idea that it is somehow shameful to be a water hog. If you can pay for it, he argues, you should get your water.
People should not be forced to live on property with brown lawns, golf on brown courses or apologize for wanting their gardens to be beautiful, Yuhas fumed recently on social media. We pay significant property taxes based on where we live, he added in an interview. And, no, were not all equal when it comes to water.
Yuhas lives in the ultra-wealthy enclave of Rancho Santa Fe, a bucolic Southern California hamlet of ranches, gated communities and country clubs that guzzles five times more water per capita than the statewide average. In April, after Gov. Jerry Brown (D) called for a 25 percent reduction in water use, consumption in Rancho Santa Fe went up by 9 percent.
But a moment of truth is at hand for Yuhas and his neighbors, and all of California will be watching: On July 1, for the first time in its 92-year history, Rancho Santa Fe will be subject to water rationing.
More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/rich-californians-youll-have-to-pry-the-hoses-from-our-cold-dead-hands/2015/06/13/fac6f998-0e39-11e5-9726-49d6fa26a8c6_story.html
marym625
(17,997 posts)People die over this kind of shit. Wars start over it.
What a pretentious, arrogant jerk!
mindem
(1,580 posts)I am really getting sick and tired rich jerks.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Kind of reminds me of Bundy and his free grazing. Who me,don't have to obey no damn Government.
Warpy
(111,267 posts)and a horse's patoot like Yuhas should get his water turned off if he exceeds usual household use including water wasters like dishwashers.
He can pay for a company to come out and spray his brown lawn green. I'm not kidding about this. Or he can convert to Astroturf. His choice.
Stupid people just don't get it, this is an emergency.
brer cat
(24,566 posts)with xeriscape landscaping and eliminate the problem of additional watering permanently.
Warpy
(111,267 posts)with expansive lawns rolled short in order to preserve the view of the stately house.
Landscaping with plants that belong there just isn't done, my dear.
I'd mention that the house aint stately enough to justify not doing it.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)Without a massive green lawn, how will the neighbors know that he's not one of the peasants?
brer cat
(24,566 posts)I guess you can't have a castle without a big moat.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Esp. the rich conservative ones. "me" and "mine" is what it is all about.
Now the poor souls are whining because their wealth cannot protect them from being treated like "those other people".
the best quote I read in the article, from the woman who lives on 4 acres in Ranchero :
You could put 20 houses on my property, and theyd have families of at least four. In my house, there is only two of us, Butler said.
So theyd be using a hell of a lot more water than were using.
Said logic somehow justifies her using 9% MORE water since the 25% water reduction was ordered.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)money to make the very hillsides bear his rich-brat whining in twenty-foot letters, and not a single newspaper or Tumblr accounts would be watching him at all