Monthly Archives: October 2023

I will be submitting a letter to California’s State Water Resources Control Board, since the “workshop” went way beyond time and it began to look like I would not get to speak until midnight, if at all. My name is Norm Benson. I am a retired Cal-Fire forester, and until our water plant was purchasedContinue reading “Forcing Conservation to be Californian’s Way of Life”

Dear members of the California Water Resources Control Board, Everything I ever needed to know about rules, I learned in kindergarten: don’t hurt other people and don’t take stuff that doesn’t belong to you. Based on these simple principles, I want to convince you that your proposed conservation law, which will be another thorn inContinue reading “Making Conservation a California Way of Life – Part Deux”

In a Los Angeles Times article in early September came this non-sequitur of a sentence, “The proposed regulation, dubbed “Making Conservation a California Way of Life,” would establish tailored goals for each urban retail water supplier in the state, providing them with more flexibility to account for local conditions, according to the State Water ResourcesContinue reading “Making Conservation a California Way of Life – Part Un”