LA CALIFORNIA TO GO BACK TO RAIN BARREL WATER COLLECTION FOR ITS RESIDENTS TO COUNTER THE LONGEST DROUGHT IN THE REGION–NEVER MIND THAT THEY CAN GET REVERSE OSMOSIS FROM THE LARGEST OCEAN IN THE WORLD–CONSIDER CRUISE SHIPS RUN ON THEM FOR ITS PASSENGER POTTABLE WATER AND ISRAEL DOES THE SAME–BUT LETS DO IT THE OLD FASHION WAY AND GO BACK TO THE STONE AGE–BUT THEN ALL THE TAX MONIES TAKEN BY DEMOCRATS HAVE ALL BEEN SPENT ON WELFARE SOCIALIST PROGRAMS AND PENSIONS FOR ITS GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES WITH NOTHING LEFT OVER FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS

I like recycling. I like innovative solutions to California’s drought. And I like ice cold Coca-Cola. So I figured I’d love Mayor Eric Garcetti’s announcement last week that the city will provide 1,000 free rain collection barrels -- and workshops on how to use them -- to residents around the city in partnership with Coca-Cola and Keep Los Angeles Beautiful.

Rain collection in the parched L.A.!  Now there’s a long overdue idea.  And yeah, it’s mildly dystopian that the donated materials are recycled 55-gallon corn syrup barrels, the sketchy ingredient in the company's sugary drinks, but beggars can’t be choosers, right?

Judging from the city’s HGTV-esque installation video, residents who were lucky enough to score a barrel stand to collect a lot of water for gardening and other “non-drinkable” activities -- assuming it rains again one day.  One inch of rainfall on a 1,200 square foot roof can produce up to 700 gallons of water.  My back of the envelope math concludes that, if L.A. someday returns to its historic average of around 15 inches of annual rainfall, 1,000 properly installed barrels could collect more than 10 million gallons of rain. 

Coca-Cola has been doing these kinds of projects in communities around the world as part of its Water Stewardship plan. It says all the right things on its splashy website about how water is our most precious resource.  That’s because, by its own admission, “Water is to Coca-Cola as clean energy is to BP.”  Which is to say that Coca-Cola operations have wreaked havoc on the environment -- and now it needs to do something about it before the damage starts to jeopardize its reputation -- and its operations.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-coca-cola-rain-barrels-california-drought-20141121-story.html

AS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED BACK IN JULY:

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY RUN STATE OF CALIFORNIA STILL DON’T GET IT–NOW 80% OF THE STATE IS IN AN EXTREME DROUGHT CRISIS–AND CALIFORNIANS ARE TOLD IS TO CONSERVE UNTIL THERE’S NO WATER LEFT–THE SAME LIBERAL POLICY OF CONSERVING ENERGY UNTIL THERE’S NONE LEFT TO USE AND THE STATE WOULD RATHER IMPOSE RESTRICTIONS AND CONTROL OF THE PEOPLE BY FORCE–WITHOUT ANY REAL SOLUTION TO CREATING A SOLUTION TO THE WATER SHORTAGE OR ENERGY SHORTAGE THIS GOVERNMENT RATHER PREFERS TO IMPOSE RESTRICTIONS ON THE PEOPLE

http://henrypatrick1736.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-democrat-run-state-of-california.html