Ankeny water ban

[Sigmapolis]

Way off the OP, but reminded me of this article. Solar has got really cheap, and even the "what about night time?" problem is getting sorted out. This is the future, and the sooner the better.

Cali Batteries

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Yep. All sorts of technical pathways out of the "duck curve" problem.

Cheaper/better storage (mostly batteries but could be other things in the future)

Wind is "countercyclical" to solar... better at night and in the cold and the winter

CCUS for the gas fleet

Next-generation modular nukes

More advanced demand-side management (smart devices, AI, etc.) to smooth out load

"Load dumps" for otherwise curtailed energy (e.g., charging up storage batteries, electric vehicles, or pumping water uphill, desalination, hydrogen electrolysis, direct air capture, etc.)

The technology to manage these problems are coming online. Coal is toast.

Clinging to it is somewhere between pathetic and sad at this point.

 

[clone4life82]

So… hypothetically speaking. Your city is in a water ban, and you look out at 7 am and see your newer neighbors (grass already established) watering their lawn (ironically, while it is raining). Do you call them out on it? Do you call the water ban police? What do you do?

 

[bos]

So… hypothetically speaking. Your city is in a water ban, and you look out at 7 am and see your newer neighbors (grass already established) watering their lawn (ironically, while it is raining). Do you call them out on it? Do you call the water ban police? What do you do?

Honestly, Id probably just grumble to myself and leave it be.

 

[NoCreativity]

So… hypothetically speaking. Your city is in a water ban, and you look out at 7 am and see your newer neighbors (grass already established) watering their lawn (ironically, while it is raining). Do you call them out on it? Do you call the water ban police? What do you do?

I wouldn't think twice about it, unnecessary with the rain we've been getting.

 

[3TrueFans]

So… hypothetically speaking. Your city is in a water ban, and you look out at 7 am and see your newer neighbors (grass already established) watering their lawn (ironically, while it is raining). Do you call them out on it? Do you call the water ban police? What do you do?

If it was easy to turn them in, like a text message or web form, and I don't like them I'd do it, if I had to like call and talk to someone, no chance.

 

[wxman1]

If it was easy to turn them in, like a text message or web form, and I don't like them I'd do it, if I had to like call and talk to someone, no chance.

I love that Cedar Rapids has this and have used it several times.

 

[ackatch]

So… hypothetically speaking. Your city is in a water ban, and you look out at 7 am and see your newer neighbors (grass already established) watering their lawn (ironically, while it is raining). Do you call them out on it? Do you call the water ban police? What do you do?

I would probably call and report them. It's a waste (and stupid) even if there wasn't a ban in place.

But then again - I'm seriously considering filling up an inflatable pool this weekend for the 4.5 year old (and myself)

 

[Pope]

I live in Ankeny and I'm not grumbling at my neighbor. I'm grumbling at DM Water Works and the farmers upstream who are preventing us from turning on our hose.

It just rained another 0.6 inch this morning (approximately 3 inches of rain in the last 5 or 6 days) and there's still a water ban in place.

It's going to be 107 degree heat index this weekend and my grandkids can't go to the splash pads or even play on the slip and slide in their back yard.

I know there are lots bigger problems to worry about these days. Just frustrating.

 

[Turn2]

So… hypothetically speaking. Your city is in a water ban, and you look out at 7 am and see your newer neighbors (grass already established) watering their lawn (ironically, while it is raining). Do you call them out on it? Do you call the water ban police? What do you do?

Hypothetically speaking, atrazine would be longer lasting than Roundup, but harder to come by without connections.

 

[Tre4ISU]

IMO you shouldn't ever be able to water your lawn with public water service or you should pay a completely frivolous surcharge for your frivolous water usage that is wholly unnecessary. Exceptions applied for establishing a lawn, obviously. If you want to put in a well, have at it..

Also, address the real problem.

 

[Turn2]

IMO you shouldn't ever be able to water your lawn with public water service or you should pay a completely frivolous surcharge for your frivolous water usage that is wholly unnecessary. Exceptions applied for establishing a lawn, obviously. If you want to put in a well, have at it..

Also, address the real problem.

Coming from the headwaters of the Des Moines River, please excuse us if that comes off as a bit tone deaf.

 

[Turn2]

Meanwhile it has been decided that sharing precious resources with these water parasites is no biggie. The 76 total looks to include a small cluster in the Marshalltown area, not in the CIWW domain.

 

[chuckd4735]

So… hypothetically speaking. Your city is in a water ban, and you look out at 7 am and see your newer neighbors (grass already established) watering their lawn (ironically, while it is raining). Do you call them out on it? Do you call the water ban police? What do you do?

Be a man and go talk to them before you turn them in. If they continue to do it after you talk to them, then turn them in.

 

[NoCreativity]

I live in Ankeny and I'm not grumbling at my neighbor. I'm grumbling at DM Water Works and the farmers upstream who are preventing us from turning on our hose.

It just rained another 0.6 inch this morning (approximately 3 inches of rain in the last 5 or 6 days) and there's still a water ban in place.

It's going to be 107 degree heat index this weekend and my grandkids can't go to the splash pads or even play on the slip and slide in their back yard.

I know there are lots bigger problems to worry about these days. Just frustrating.

The Des Moines splash pools and spray grounds are back open. You can always go to one of them.

 

[chuckd4735]

Meanwhile it has been decided that sharing precious resources with these water parasites is no biggie. The 76 total looks to include a small cluster in the Marshalltown area, not in the CIWW domain.

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I bet you used Google to find that map...

 

[NoCreativity]

Be a man and go talk to them before you turn them in. If they continue to do it after you talk to them, then turn them in.

Then it turns into an argument about "freedumbs" and now you have a neighbor dispute on your hands.

Everything is completely anonymous when you use those hotlines.

 

[chuckd4735]

Then it turns into an argument about "freedumbs" and now you have a neighbor dispute on your hands.

Well at that point walk away turn them in then. At least start by taking to them. I guarantee you the complaints coming in right now are many and they can't keep up and that is mostly due to the fact that people are afraid of confrontation.

 

[Tre4ISU]

Then it turns into an argument about "freedumbs" and now you have a neighbor dispute on your hands.

Everything is completely anonymous when you use those hotlines.

Yeah, well, be an adult.

Also, kindly point out that when you rely on a public service you forfeit some of those freedoms. That's how it works. it seems like pretty much every corner of society, in their own situations, feels like they can do whatever they want and have it supplied by the public.

 

[Tre4ISU]

Coming from the headwaters of the Des Moines River, please excuse us if that comes off as a bit tone deaf.

What do you mean?

 

[Turn2]

I bet you used Google to find that map...

The Duck.