Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the house whisper and
Speaker 1: the host of home on KFI. It's Dean Sharp. So Dean,
Speaker 1: we know that water prices have gone up, a lot
Speaker 1: of our water bills have gone up, but our water
Speaker 1: usage is way the heck down.
Speaker 2: I know, right, I know I'm a story on this
Speaker 2: last week, but I just thought this is worth celebrating,
Speaker 2: This is worth giving everybody in southern California a serious
Speaker 2: round of applause on because you know, it's a big thing.
Speaker 2: Do you remember, do you remember when we're gonna find
Speaker 2: you if you water your lawn on the wrong day
Speaker 2: and you got to tear out your lawn and we're
Speaker 2: all gonna die and there's nothing left. And now per person,
Speaker 2: water usage in southern California has dropped to its lowest
Speaker 2: in thirty five years. So you know, well done, Southern Californians.
Speaker 2: Well done.
Speaker 1: Okay, So why is it just because people are more aware?
Speaker 1: Is it because water prices are higher? Or do we
Speaker 1: have more efficient.
Speaker 2: I think essentially, well, I mean the water district gives
Speaker 2: is patting themselves on the back for finally getting on
Speaker 2: the ball and reclaiming more rain water, Like, what's happening
Speaker 2: today reclaiming more of that water. But the largest bulk
Speaker 2: of it, in my opinion, comes from a couple of
Speaker 2: simple things. Finally, people have just taken the advice switched
Speaker 2: over their mass air based sprinkler systems to drip irrigation.
Speaker 2: And there a lot of people, a lot a lot
Speaker 2: of people have installed these bridge valves and recirculation pumps
Speaker 2: in their home. What's that, Well, this is the simple thing.
Speaker 2: You and I have talked about it before. It's the
Speaker 2: idea that this one little device placed at the furthest
Speaker 2: sink away from your water heater allows hot water to
Speaker 2: be drawn through the house further without wasting it, so
Speaker 2: that when you turn on that faucet or you turn
Speaker 2: on that shower in the morning, you're not waiting three
Speaker 2: minutes to get in for the hot water to show up.
Speaker 2: And it's a small thing experientially that we've talked about
Speaker 2: for years now, but so many homeowners have done this
Speaker 2: because the fact of the matter is waiting that two
Speaker 2: or three minutes for the hot water to show up,
Speaker 2: that's two or three minutes of water going down the
Speaker 2: drain and that is singlely responsible for hundreds of billions
Speaker 2: of gallons of water being wasted in southern California, and
Speaker 2: that simply is not happening the same way anymore. Combined
Speaker 2: that with people irrigating their property differently, and we're in
Speaker 2: a good place.
Speaker 1: I like that. I think it's because the low flow toilets.
Speaker 2: Low flow toilets now flow toilets have been around for
Speaker 2: a long time, but yeah, incrementally, brick by brick, we
Speaker 2: have just stepped away from heavy water usage. And now again,
Speaker 2: you know, I think everybody deserves a round of applause. Okay,
Speaker 2: which does not is not to say, is not to
Speaker 2: say there it is. It's not to say we should
Speaker 2: all just turn all the taps on and walk away.
Speaker 2: It's just I think it's become our lifestyle now and
Speaker 2: it's not a it's no big deal anymore. And and
Speaker 2: that's great. That's where we were hoping to get to.
Speaker 1: Okay, we don't, we have almost no time, but I
Speaker 1: wanted to just touch base really quick. We got that
Speaker 1: report from NASA and JPL this week that the Palace
Speaker 1: Verde is shifting and during a month last fall it
Speaker 1: was like four inches a week. You're saying that it's
Speaker 1: up to twelve inches per week in some areas. Do
Speaker 1: those guys have any hope of saving their homes or
Speaker 1: are they just is it inevitable that they're eventually they're
Speaker 1: all just going to crumble.
Speaker 2: No, they don't, and they really don't. This this, actually,
Speaker 2: the Portuguese End landslide, has actually been happening since late
Speaker 2: nineteen fifties. It has been shifting and moving, and now
Speaker 2: recent there are last couple of heavy rains through the
Speaker 2: last couple of bad winters has set it off. It
Speaker 2: is a deep slip zone. It is happening way way
Speaker 2: down below them. Part of the reason it's moving is
Speaker 2: because of the homes and the weight and the road
Speaker 2: systems that have been built on top of it. And
Speaker 2: it is a massive, massive amount of soil that is
Speaker 2: now shifting. There's no reinforcing it, there's no retaining walls
Speaker 2: that are going to stop it. And now it's moving,
Speaker 2: as you said, you know, up to certain areas twelve
Speaker 2: inches a week. That is simply not going to be stopped.
Speaker 2: So those hundreds of homes that have already been affected,
Speaker 2: I'm afraid that they are just going to have to
Speaker 2: find a way of walking away from those very very
Speaker 2: likely the majority of that area is going to be
Speaker 2: allocated as open space on the peninsula.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Dean, what are you gonna be talking about
Speaker 1: on the show this weekend?
Speaker 2: Well, we've got a very special show on Sunday whose
Speaker 2: topic I am not revealing yet, But Saturday morning, tomorrow morning,
Speaker 2: we're taking calls and we're discussing more of these design
Speaker 2: oddities from around southern California.
Speaker 1: Oh that sounds fun. Okay, six to eight tomorrow morning
Speaker 1: right here on KFI, and then nine to noon with
Speaker 1: a secret guest on Sunday. It's the house Whisper and
Speaker 1: the host of Home on KFI, Dean Sharp. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Thanks Sam.