The march of the low-flow toilets begins
Gov. Sonny Perdue just announced his water conservation package. Read the entire press release here, but this paragraph below appears to be the most wide-reaching:
Beginning in July 2012, the legislation requires efficient water fixtures in all new residential and commercial construction statewide as well as the installation of efficient cooling towers in new industrial construction.
Also, for all new residential and commercial multi-unit projects, the bill will require sub-metering so that each unit will receive consumption reports and have incentive to practice conservation measures.
Note that the effective date coincides with the deadline set by the federal judge to resolve Georgia’s water dispute with Alabama and Florida.
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25 comments Add your comment
d.
February 3rd, 2010
12:41 pm
That’s it. It took hi seven years to come up with this. Just throw in recycle toliet water also. Man, the crap that flows down stream.
d.
February 3rd, 2010
12:42 pm
that should be him not hi
DCA
February 3rd, 2010
1:00 pm
And just what are Alabama and Florida going to do? Could it be….NOTHING?!
Dummy Purdue
February 3rd, 2010
1:04 pm
Uh, Purdue, in case you hadn’t noticed . . . with the foreclosure mess and the state economy in the toilet, there isn’t much new construction being done. So, this wouldn’t make a dent in water conservation.
How soon will we be rid of this governor? Perry Georgia needs its idiot back.
Paddy O
February 3rd, 2010
1:12 pm
Precisely when will the people of Georgia realize that our Governor mimics the Emporer with new clothes? This man may be the most utterly unprepared, and thoroughly inept, Governor in the last 100 years. He has systematically rearranged the deck chairs of the Titanic, not once, but perennially in his 8 years. It was acceptable the first 18 months, but at that point he should of had an agenda to implement. His leadership has been an gross failure. We need water in Georgia – what has he done? We need mass transit, and had a plan as early as 1995, but what has he done? We need funds for transit, and what has he or the Republican do nothings accomplished? Cities have been held hostage by ego driven, jealous counties through SPLOST proceedings. Cities need to have the authority to adopt their own sales taxes to fund their own projects. Why is this so tough for the legislature to adopt? Perdue has thrown away a decade of progress.
Bill
February 3rd, 2010
1:16 pm
How about more efforts to require and support retrofitting? Finding and repairing municipal leaks could be a big saver. What about a permanent ban on watering of lawns and shrubs with municipal water. I know the landscaping industry will scream, so perhaps some support for xeriscaping. Perhaps a hefty tax on every non-native non-drought resistant plant sold in Georgia, with the money going to fix water and sewer infrastructure.
What a waste
February 3rd, 2010
1:22 pm
This part of Perdue’s press release is particularly weird: “The legislation also instructs eight different state agencies to look at local government and water provider grant and loan programs to develop incentive criteria that would encourage retrofit programs on existing construction.” Why is Perdue introducing a bill that asks the General Assembly to “instruct” state agencies “to look at …developing incentive criteria.” As Governor and chief executive, those state agencies answer to him. It seems completely unnecessary to beg permission from the General Assembly on how to instruct the agencies to act and, even then, to merely be instructing them to “develop criteria.” Rather than providing leadership on water management, we have somebody so ineffective he can do little more than pass the buck. Please just give us a competent administration led by someone who has a clue.
Wha?!?!
February 3rd, 2010
1:28 pm
A hefty tax?!?! How about properly managing the money they have in the first place? Botht he state and federal governments have shown they have not a clue when it comes to budgets or the will of the people who elected them. It is time for them to be accountable for their lack of action. Vote them out!!
Democratic Hack
February 3rd, 2010
1:38 pm
Looks like the Democrats have taken over this blog.
All they care to do is bash the Governor.
What have the Democrats done to correct this problem?
Nothing!
King Roy
February 3rd, 2010
1:40 pm
Re-elect me and I will correct all problems known to man…even the ones I created when I was Governor.
Cutty
February 3rd, 2010
1:41 pm
D. Hack- The city of Atlanta proposed the same initiative last summer, and the developers bashed them for months about how it would affect the real estate economy. Get a new talking point dude.
Da'Rick Rogers
February 3rd, 2010
1:44 pm
Who cares!?! Georgia is going down the tubes. Follow me to the promise land – Tennessee!
King Roy
February 3rd, 2010
1:50 pm
Cutty,
What?
What talking point are you talking about dude?
d.
February 3rd, 2010
2:17 pm
You mean there is someone that does support the guv? King Roy and Democratic Hack–if you think the Guv has done good these lst seven years, I want to sell you a golden gate bridge. Y’all must be on Perdue’s Blog Payroll
Lucas
February 3rd, 2010
2:20 pm
Yeah, I guess the Dems haven’t done anything to correct this problem. Then again, the Republicans were the ones in power, and the only things they did were lobbyists. Zing!
But seriously, dude – the Republicans have had their shot and they effed it all up. Sitting in traffic? Thank last year’s House Republican caucus. They chose to front an extremely unpopular, unproven statewide transportation tax, while the Senate was basically begging to sign the bill the House had passed *the previous year.* It’s a mess, and it’s the Republicans’ fault, because they were in charge. So shut yer trap.
harrison
February 3rd, 2010
2:42 pm
If I remember correctly, before he left office Barnes had a statewide water plan that included building new reservoirs. I know that at least one where they were about to break ground, but when Perdue came in he scuttled it. Just like he scuttled anything and everything that Barnes had done.
d.
February 3rd, 2010
2:47 pm
How much did we pay to have this study done. I could have done it for nothing. A whole year for a study of what…..I don’t get it. Are the people on this commission lobbist. This water plan is a joke.
Cutty
February 3rd, 2010
3:32 pm
King Roy- Just look who’s in power in this state, and look at whats been done about water, transportation, and education the last for years. Get back at me then.
Road Scholar
February 3rd, 2010
3:37 pm
Demo Hack: If you had been paying attention, the City of Atlanta has been building sewer overflow storage, separating sewer lines from drainage lines, updating thier sewage treatment plants, and providing rebates for high efficiency/low water toilets. Last time I checked, they are/have been run by Democrats.
Whether you like the COA or not…at least they have moved forward…( even though it was by federal mandate)
Reverie
February 3rd, 2010
3:42 pm
“This man may be the most utterly unprepared, and thoroughly inept, Governor in the last 100 years.”
No Paddy O., that would be King Roy Barnes, the man depriving Mabelton of their Village Idiot.
George
February 3rd, 2010
5:57 pm
Roy Barnes did more good for Georgia in a week than Sonny has done in eight years. Barnes created jobs, but not just jobs for lobbyists. Sonny has done little more than pray for rain and continue to pray that the transportation and water issues will go away on their own. Perdue spent $20 Million on boat ramps when Georgia State Patrol posts have to close due to budget cuts, State Troopers are being furloughed, and GSP posts are closed overnight to save money. Keep praying Sonny, you’re gonna need it next election time….
Alabama Communist
February 3rd, 2010
9:07 pm
Meanwhile in a amazing change. The State of Alabama offer 45,000 OutHouses to the State of Georgia to settle the Water Shortage in both States
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again
February 3rd, 2010
11:29 pm
Speaking of toilets…
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/michael-jackson/sc-dc-obama-dems04-20100203,0,987524.story
Randy Karrh Jr.
February 4th, 2010
12:59 pm
Perdue should have taken the outhouses from Alabama, and used the compost to create organic gardens. And then he could sale the organic produce to restaurants in Alabama.
d.
February 4th, 2010
1:04 pm
I think they need to flush their water proposal down the water-saving toliets.