{"id":100,"date":"2015-04-08T18:27:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/?p=100"},"modified":"2015-04-08T18:27:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:27:57","slug":"water-wars-fines-500-00-per-day-gov-jerry-brown-californians-to-be-heavily-fined-for-long-showers-breitbart-4515","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"WATER WARS:  FINES $500.00 per DAY:  Gov Jerry Brown: Californians to Be Heavily Fined for Long Showers &#8211; Breitbart 4\/5\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/video\/2015\/04\/05\/gov-jerry-brown-californians-to-be-heavily-fined-for-long-showers\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/video\/2015\/04\/05\/gov-jerry-brown-californians-to-be-heavily-fined-for-long-showers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Brown said, \u201cThis executive order is done under emergency power. It has the force of law. Very unusual. It\u2019s requiring action and changes in behavior from the Oregon border all the way to the Mexican border. It affects lawns. It affects people\u2019s \u2014 how long they stay in the shower. How businesses use water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown said to enforce his order, \u201cEach water district that actually delivers waters \u2014 water to homes and businesses, they carry it out. We have a state water board that overseas the relationships with the districts. Hundreds of them. If they don\u2019t comply, people can be fined $500 a day. Districts can go to court to get a cease and desist order. The enforcement mechanism is powerful. In a drought of this magnitude, you have to change that behavior and you have to change it substantially.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guest host\u00a0 host Martha Raddatz pointed out, \u201cMore water used for almond production than is used by all residents and businesses in San Francisco and Los Angeles combined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown countered by saying, \u201cFarm workers who are \u2014 very low end of the economic scale here, are out of work. There are people in agriculture areas that are suffering. Who are providing food.\u201d adding, \u201cThey\u2019re not watering their lawn or taking long showers. They\u2019re providing most of the fruits and vegetables of America. And a significant part of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/video\/2015\/04\/05\/gov-jerry-brown-californians-to-be-heavily-fined-for-long-showers\/ Brown said, \u201cThis executive order is done under emergency power. It has the force of law. Very unusual. It\u2019s requiring action and changes in behavior from the Oregon border all the way to the Mexican border. It affects lawns. It affects people\u2019s \u2014 how long they stay in the shower. How businesses use water.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-posts","category-water-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}