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Demeter

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10. CALIFORNIANS! Lock Your Taps! Drought Has Thieves Stealing Water Like It’s Liquid Gold

Reply to Tansy_Gold (Original post)

Mon Jun 15, 2015, 07:18 AM

Jun 2015

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/06/13/lock-your-taps-spigot-milpitas-thieves-stealing-water-like-its-liquid-gold/

Police are warning for businesses and residents to start locking up their taps. California’s drought has gotten so bad, people are stealing water.

Thieves busted the locks on the spigots at a popular Asian shopping center on Barber Lane in Milpitas, just to get their hands on what has become liquid gold...

Police say the thieves waited until the businesses were closed and returned in the middle of the night to steal their water — and lots of it. Witnesses saw 3 or 4 water bandits prying open the small boxes that house the spigots. Then they filled up large containers with hundreds of gallons of water. The businesses discovered the theft after the property owner noticed a much higher water bill and told them...

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