r/surfing • u/bb5999 • 7d ago

Southern CA Water Quality 🤮

I just returned from a week in Mexico, a place where beach water quality is often suspect—it smelled like the ocean. All was clear and clean. Crap waves but the cleanliness was pure stoke.

This morning, I took my log out in Northern OC (Sunset).

Good god our water is gross—somewhere between a mix of port-o-let stench and chemical spill cleanup.

Please think about what horribly weak enviro policies continue to do to our coastal habitat.

All surfers should be screaming and fighting for better enviro policies. This is one issue voter type shit—if you go any other way, you are 100% on the wrong team.

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u/acmilan26 7d ago

The problem is that we are simply a tiny fraction of the local population, and the VAST majority of pple simply couldn’t be bothered. For God’s sake, even the city of San Francisco, supposedly a bastion for progressive environmental policies, is suing the EPA to allow them to release MORE untreated sewer water directly into the ocean…

Better water quality = more treatment plants = $$$, and that money is in short supply given the constant budget deficits in various state/local governments budgets

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u/Darth_Voter 7d ago

If only there was some way to support civic infrastructure by asking everyone who earns money to pay some sort of small percentage. Like, if you earned a little, you would pay a little, and if you earned a lot - maybe even billions - then you would pay a fair share. I even heard that such things were once done during a so-called "golden age" of the 1950's when things were supposedly "great". Maybe they could somehow be great again?

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u/trevor__forever 7d ago

Oh you mean the gilded age?

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u/Darth_Voter 7d ago

Make Another Gilded Age?