http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-snowpack-20150331-story.html#page=1Der Furher - Gov. Brown orders mandatory water restrictions in CaliforniaApril 1, 2015, 11:55 AM|Reporting from Lake Tahoe, Calif.
Gov. Jerry Brown, standing on a patch of brown grass in the Sierra Nevada that is usually covered with several feet of snow at this time of year, on Wednesday announced the
first mandatory water restrictions in California history..
"It's a different world," he said. "We have to act differently."
Brown was on hand Wednesday as state officials took stock of historically abysmal levels of snowpack in the Sierra Nevada amid the state's grinding drought.
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Gov. Jerry Brown's executive order on droughtBrown ordered the California Water Resources Control Board to implement
mandatory restrictions to reduce water usage by 25%. The water savings are expected to amount to 1.5 million acre-feet of water over the next nine months.
Other elements of Brown's order would:
--Require golf courses, cemeteries and other large landscaped spaces to reduce water consumption.
--Replace 50 million square feet of lawn statewide with drought-tolerant landscaping as part of a partnership with local governments.
--Create a statewide rebate program to replace old appliances with more water- and energy-efficient ones.
--Require new homes to have water-efficient drip irrigation if developers want to use potable water for landscaping.
--Ban the watering of ornamental grass on public street medians.
--Call on water agencies to implement new pricing models that discourage excessive water use.
--Require agricultural to report more water usage information to the state so that regulators can better find waste and improper activities.
--Create a mechanism to enforce requirements that water districts report usage numbers to the state.
"It is such an unprecedented lack of snow," said Frank Gehrke, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Survey Program. He's been attending the snowpack measurements since 1987 and said he had never before seen the ground barren of snow on April 1. "It's way below the records."
It's another foreboding sign for a
state languishing in drought as the wet season winds to a close.
Electronic readings on Wednesday at about 100 stations across the Sierra showed that the
water content of the snow was only about 5% of the state average for April 1, the date on which snowpack is normally considered at its peak. Official manual readings will be announced Wednesday afternoon.
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http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/08/26/jerry-brown-to-mexican-illegals-you-re-all-welcome-in-ca/Gov. Jerry Brown to Mexican Illegals: 'You're All Welcome in California'by Tony Lee
26 Aug 2014On Monday evening,
California Governor Jerry Brown said all Mexicans, including illegal immigrants, are welcome in California. http://blurbrain.com/california-moonbeam-jerry-brown-signs-lawlessness-into-law/
Brown (D) signed eight bills Saturday, including one prohibiting local law enforcement officials from detaining immigrants longer than necessary for minor crimes so that federal immigration authorities can take custody of them.
Under the Trust Act, immigrants in this country illegally would have to be charged with or convicted of a serious offense to be eligible for a 48-hour hold and transfer to U.S. immigration authorities for possible deportation.
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