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Fact Check: Is It Now 'Against the Law in California to Shower and Do Laundry on the Same Day'?
Holmes Lybrand
June 5, 2018 1:45 PM
Cleaning up a misleading claim about two bills signed into law.
Recent blog posts made hay over two water-related bills passed in California, suggesting that consumers may now be fined for doing laundry and taking a shower on the same day.
California has a water problem—one so severe that Gov. Jerry Brown thought it prudent to sign two bills, Senate Bill 606 and Assembly Bill 1668, into law focused primarily on decreasing per-person water usage.
One part of the legislation requires that “urban retail water suppliers†stick to set annual water budgets or potentially face a penalty of up to $1,000 per day (more if the overuse coincides with emergency droughts).
https://www.weeklystandard.com/holmes-lybrand/fact-check-is-it-now-against-the-law-in-california-to-shower-and-do-laundry-on-the-same-day (https://www.weeklystandard.com/holmes-lybrand/fact-check-is-it-now-against-the-law-in-california-to-shower-and-do-laundry-on-the-same-day)