November marked the second month in a row that Californians failed to meet the governor’s emergency water conservation order amid a historic drought.
Regulators announced Tuesday that residents used an average of 20.3 percent less water in November when compared with the same month in 2013, the baseline year for Gov. Jerry Brown’s mandate. His benchmark is a minimum savings of 25 percent.
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The program began June 1 and is scheduled to last through February, with some type of extension eyed for much of the rest of this year.
