{"id":122,"date":"2015-04-22T16:18:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T16:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/?p=122"},"modified":"2015-04-22T16:18:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T16:18:28","slug":"water-warfare-wages-on-pitting-the-rich-against-the-not-so-rich-drought-stricken-californias-wealthy-pay-up-to-keep-lawns-lush-bloomberg-politics%e2%80%8f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"WATER WARFARE WAGES ON: Pitting the Rich Against the Not So Rich &#8211; Drought-Stricken California\u2019s Wealthy Pay Up to Keep Lawns Lush &#8211; Bloomberg Politics\u200f"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>WATER WARFARE WAGES ON: \u00a0Pitting the Rich Against the Not So Rich &#8211; Drought-Stricken California\u2019s Wealthy Pay Up to Keep Lawns Lush &#8211; Bloomberg Politics<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Drought-Stricken California\u2019s Wealthy Pay Up to Keep Lawns Lush &#8211; Bloomberg Politics . . .<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/articles\/2015-04-15\/drought-stricken-california-s-wealthy-pay-up-to-keep-lawns-lush\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/articles\/2015-04-15\/drought-stricken-california-s-wealthy-pay-up-to-keep-lawns-lush<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Excerpt:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gardens stayed lush and lawns verdant as citizens paid tanker trucks to deliver thousands of gallons to homes in the seaside suburb of Santa Barbara. They drilled in back yards, driving the county\u2019s tally of new wells to a record. Some simply paid fines for exceeding allocations, padding the water district\u2019s budget by more than $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople feel strongly about their landscaping and want to keep their homes beautiful,\u201d said Patrick Nesbitt, who drilled a well to hydrate parts of his 70-acre estate but let his polo field go dry. \u201cWhy should anybody object?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATER WARFARE WAGES ON: \u00a0Pitting the Rich Against the Not So Rich &#8211; Drought-Stricken California\u2019s Wealthy Pay Up to Keep Lawns Lush &#8211; Bloomberg Politics Drought-Stricken California\u2019s Wealthy Pay Up to Keep Lawns Lush &#8211; Bloomberg Politics . . . http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/articles\/2015-04-15\/drought-stricken-california-s-wealthy-pay-up-to-keep-lawns-lush Excerpt: Gardens stayed lush and lawns verdant as citizens paid tanker trucks to deliver [&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-122","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\/122","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=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}