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California Water Use Falls By 27 Percent in June
NBC Bay Area ^ | 7/30

Posted on 07/30/2015 2:33:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway

June marked the first month of mandatory cutbacks during California's drought

California water use dropped by 27 percent in June, the first month of mandatory cutbacks during the drought.

The announcement from state regulators comes after the state's largest cities already announced they met or exceeded mandatory conservation targets provided by the state. Data released by the State Water Resources Control Board shows 265 of the 411 local agencies in the state hit or nearly reached the savings targets implemented after Gov. Jerry Brown ordered an overall 25 percent savings.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the state's largest agency serving 4 million people, said it met its 16 percent savings target. Utilities serving San Diego, San Jose and San Francisco said savings far exceeded the goals from the state.

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To: eyeamok

“50% is USED for the Delta Smelt (2 quarters)”

Which is it? Wasted OR used?


21 posted on 07/30/2015 4:29:37 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: nickcarraway

Just in LA for 3 days. No sign or care for the drought there. Back home in the Bay Area all of our lawns are dying and my water bill has doubled.


22 posted on 07/30/2015 4:33:53 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: CdMGuy

At least we do have rain. How long has your drought lasted? 2, 3 years?


23 posted on 07/30/2015 5:05:36 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: nickcarraway

But they still don’t get after all the illegal aliens who are living 20 to a house.


24 posted on 07/30/2015 5:16:38 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: rktman

Yet another strain on our infrastructure by illegal’s.

CA school’s are 9th worst in the Country.
Anyone want to guess why?

And some are now talking about segregating school’s so illegal’s and their children can be better educated.

The libs and their social experiments keep sending our Country into a decline.


25 posted on 07/30/2015 5:38:37 PM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield (I stopped drinking the Trump Kool-Aid July 25th and will support Ted Cruz for POTUS)
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To: NormsRevenge

Everyone on our street has pools so everyone is more or less letting their front lawns go brown and taking care of the back.


26 posted on 07/30/2015 6:01:07 PM PDT by sheana
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To: eyeamok

That point was far from clear in the original article....but thank you.

At the same time, I cannot imagine reducing my water usage by 25%. The only way I see that happening is if the number of people decreased.


27 posted on 07/30/2015 7:14:44 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: TexasGator

Both!


28 posted on 07/30/2015 7:34:21 PM PDT by eyeamok
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