California water conservation slows slightly
By Matt Stevens, Los Angeles Times
Californians cut back their urban water use in August by 27 percent compared with the same month in 2013, state regulators announced Thursday.
The reduction was slightly less than the 31 percent decline recorded in July, but on par with a 27 percent effort in June.
It was also enough to remain in compliance with Gov. Jerry Brown’s restrictions for the third consecutive month. Earlier this year, Brown ordered cities and towns across California to slash their water consumption by 25 percent to help combat the effects of a four-year drought.
my county , amador, water agency leaves a 1/2 gal. per minute water main line leak wait not only once for two weeks but yet another for 9 days. ‘every drop counts’ doesn’t apply to the water agency, therefore i refuse to conserve and i will get my water worth of the amounts the agency let go straight onto the ground. that’s thousands of gallons in my neighborhood for my neighborhood.
AMEN ron…
These ‘agencies’ that monitor the public!!!need monitoring themselves and need to be held accountable for the abuses that we, the taxpayers, ‘pay’ them to heap upon hard working families.
Fine the person/s responsible and fire them. If jail would be the consequence for a regular person then the offending agent should go there as a consequence surely.