XYL - Water restrictions come to Southern California as drought worsens

Sweeping restrictions on outdoor water use have gone into effect for Southern Californians as the state attempts to conserve the precious life resource. Declining reservoir levels and reduced snowpack have led to a severe three-year drought and officials fear that some communities won't even have enough water to get through the summer. "Some would consider this a wake-up call. I disagree," said California's Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot. "The alarm's already gone off." Snapshot: The new limits will depend on locality, but the hardest hit will be the 6M residents across Ventura and northwestern L.A. counties and parts of the San Gabriel Valley and Inland Empire. Households will be forbidden from irrigating their lawns more than once a week to preserve enough supplies for people to cover their basic needs. Outdoor and landscape watering use accounts for roughly half of all urban water use, according to California estimates. Not all

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Water restrictions come to Southern California as drought worsens