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Also, not mentioned is the fact that celebrities in Los Angeles were using thousands of cubic metres of water to keep their massive gardens green, decorative fountains flowing, and their swimming pools full during a drought, while ordinary people were only allowed to water their lawns three times a week.
Water usage should be price exponentially so that each cubic metre costs double what the previous one did.
People should not have lawns of grass in areas where they have to water them to keep them green. Especially if there is a water shortage. Use Rocks, Use native plants, Get creative.
Grass is the most basic ass way to keep your lawn. If you are playing a sport on it, fine- but if not it's boring af anyway.
that’s already too much imo. watering a lawn is a total waste of water, wether it’s being done by millionaires or not.
Ordering all people to kill their grass is a great way to cause immense public opposition to any sort of water restriction whatsoever, so it's not helpful if the goal is to conserve water.
Besides, the amount of water used by this activity is comparatively minimal, probably no more than a tenth of a cubic metre each time, especially since you are only allowed to water for 8 minutes three times a week.
https://www.ladwp.com/who-we-are/water-system/water-conservation/water-conservation-ordinance
Why shouldnt it be split per person? They can turn their fountains off if they want to save their portion for poop, dishes, and laundry like the rest of us. Or they can pay someone else to do it and run their stupid fucking fountain for 10 minutes a day.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power uses lot sizes for this purpose, which is not without merit since it is easy to calculate, roughly correlates with the number of people living on that lot, and is hard to cheat, but I don't think it's actually a very good system. What I think would be better is to check with the Department of Motor Vehicles to see how many identification cards are registered at that address, then allow the rates double every N cubic metres, where N is the number of identification cards registered at that address.
How to be a rich person 101:
Subdivide your "lot" such that your 1400 sqft bathroom is one "lot" and the bedroom is another lot. Your garden fountain? You guessed it. Another lot....
That's a lot more work than you think. You would need a new water meter and water connection installed on each lot and you would also need to file a bunch of legal paper work to do the subdivision, as well as wrangling with the Postal Service to get mailboxes installed for each lot, and so on...
On top of that, you're risking being found out and pictures of your mansion posted on the front page of Variety being accused of cheating the water rates, which is very bad for someone whose career probably depends on their public perception. Don't make yourself into the next Amber Heard. On top of that, public outcry means the Council might even intervene to put a stop to your plan by amending the Water Rates Ordinance to penalise you for your obvious attempt to abuse the system.
When should the counter reset?
I think weekly, and the number of cubic metres you get at each price point should depend on the number of identification cards registered at your address.
If we use a model rate of $3 per cubic metre as a baseline, and you, your spouse, and two children all consume the average amount of water per day (225 L), the household would consume 6.3 m³ of water per week. You would be billed $3 per m³ for the first 4 m³. Then you would be billed $6 per m² for the next 2.3 m³. This totals $25.80 for the week.
If we consider a two-person household, just you and your spouse, water usage would be 3.15 m³ for the week and you would be billed $3 per m³ for the first 2 m³ and $6 per m³ for the last 1.15 m³. That totals $12.90 per week.
Under the current system, you would be billed $4.287 per m³ which comes out to $27.00 for the 4-person household and $13.50 for the two-person household per week, so my system results in roughly the same water bill for average consumers.
On the other hand, if you're a Hollywood actor living in a mansion with your spouse and each using 5 times the average water usage in order to water a huge garden and run a water fountain, your water usage would be 15.75 m³ per week, for which you would be billed $1,434 for that week.
If you use another 12 m³ to top up your swimming pool because the Kardashians or some other trashy celebrities are coming over for a party hosted at your mansion, your water bill for using 27.75 m³ that week would shoot up to $92,147.
In comparison, even if you are being penalised by the Department of Water and Power for excessive usage today, you're still only charged a maximum of $5.414 per m³, so that actor would be charged only $85.27 at most for the normal week and $150.24 for the pool week.
Ideally every 12 hours since we consume a lot of water, thought this is NOT the way, it's stupid since it harm poor peoe, just tax more the rich and the big companies
How about we seize all their assets and nationalize the companies so that the wealth is owned collectively and benefits everyone instead?
I agree
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Yes, and why not? We have nothing to lose but our chains.
A cubic meter is a thousand liters, Which seems to be a lot of water to use in a 12 hour period, statistics I found point at an average water consumption of 100 to 130 liters per day, so a regular consumer would never even get close to the point where it doubles, and therefore would be unaffected. So why do you think this would hurt poor people?
Yeah sorry, i misscalculated. I'd say that it can reset every 7 days then