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L.A. Water Use Plunges a Record 9% as Unprecedented Water Restrictions Bring Savings

/in , , /by /Los Angeles Timesby Hayley Smith and Carolyn Cole

Damon Ayala peered at a wet patch of sidewalk on South Tremaine Avenue on a recent Wednesday and clicked his pen.

“No one should be watering today,” he said. “That’s evidence of a watering today. They’re going to get an information letter from me.”

Ayala is a member of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s water conservation response unit, and he spends his days patrolling the streets of L.A. looking for homes and businesses in violation of the new drought rules.

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El Centro Implements New Drought Mandates

/in , , /by /Hotville Tribuneby Marcie Landeros

The City Council voted unanimously to move into Stage 2 of the city’s water shortage contingency plan as required by the state Water Resources Control Board in response to increasing drought conditions.

The July 5 vote came in direct response to an emergency regulation passed on May 24 by the Water Resources Control Board, which required water suppliers, such as cities or the Imperial Irrigation District, to implement Stage 2 of their respective plans, according to El Centro Public Works Director Abraham Compos.

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Pasadena Water and Power Plans to Ratchet Up Water Restrictions: Once a Week Watering Beginning September

/in , , /by /Pasadena Nowby Keith Calayag

Pasadena Water and Power is planning to step up water conservation efforts beginning this September as California slips deeper into drought.

Speaking to members of the Municipal Services Committee on Tuesday, July 13, PWP Interim General Manager Jeffrey Kightlinger said the agency will soon propose the implementation of a level 3 Water Supply Shortage Plan, which would limit watering days to one day per week.

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California Capitol Lawn No Longer Being Watered

/in , , /by /FOX 40by Jose Fabian

The lawns at the California Capitol are no longer being watered as water conservation was taken up a notch.

Emergency water conservation regulations were enacted by the California State Water Resources Control Board, and they went into effect on June 10. The regulations prohibit ornamental or non-functional grass at commercial, industrial and institutional properties from being watered.

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Opinion: The Case for Banning Front Lawns in California Is Stronger Than Ever

/in , /by /Manteca Bulletinby Dennis Wyatt

Man-made climate change is not the source of California’s water woes.

I guarantee that some people will read those 11 words and dismiss anyone who utters them as a climate change denier or at least a member of the Flat Earth Society.

But the science and history are absolutely clear that when it comes to our water supply we are basing our solutions on the wrong facts.

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Water Usage Down 36% in Claremont, La Verne and Three Valleys Municipal Water District

/in , /by /Daily Bulletinby Javier Rojas

A month after water restrictions were placed on communities in the San Gabriel and Inland valleys, many are meeting required conservation goals.

Customers in the Three Valleys Municipal Water District are using 36% below the maximum amount of water currently allotted, according to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The latest figure, which reflects data for the month of June, surpasses the 20% reduction residents were asked to meet beginning June 1.

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Castaic Lake Water Level Lowers to 34 Percent Total Capacity

/in , , /by /KHTSby Marc Monroy

As of Monday, Castaic Lake held only 34 percent of its total water capacity, and state officials expect to see that number dwindle even further as the long hot summer continues, according to information from the California Department of Water Resources.

“SCV Water and the rest of California is facing a serious multi-year drought, and there is no end in sight,” said Santa Clarita Valley Water Sustainability Manager Matt Dickens in an April statement. “Our current water-saving efforts are falling short of our conservation goals.”

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How Scottsdale’s Drought Plan Has Reduced the City’s Water Footprint

/in , , /by /KJZZby Katherine Davis-Young

In front of the Granite Reef Senior Center in Scottsdale, there’s a parking lot on one side, and off to the other side, there’s a space for the Scottsdale Trolley to stop. Between those areas is a patch of gravel and drought-tolerant desert plants. Six months ago, the senior center’s little xeriscape garden was about 3,000 square feet of turf. But it wasn’t intended as a sports field or a picnic area, it was really just a decorative space to divide two sides of the parking lot.

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Desalination: Should California Use the Ocean to Quench Its Thirst?

/in , /by /Capitol Weeklyby Aaron Gilbreath

As the state’s water supplies continue to dwindle during this drought, it’s always worth weighing the pros and cons of desalinization to meet the state’s water needs

Groundwater keeps shrinking, reservoirs keep drying. Is it time for California to use desalinization to increase its depleted water supplies?

Here we are again: California is enduring another punishing drought, this one only a few years after the last one ended, which was the most severe drought in the state’s nearly 500 years of recorded history.

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San Diego City Council Unanimously Approves Water Rate Hike to Start 2023

/in , , /by /NBC 7 San Diego Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

The San Diego City Council unanimously approved the city’s second water rate hike in two years on Tuesday.

In May, the San Diego County Water Authority proposed increasing its rates by about 5% for treated water and nearly 4% for untreated water, citing inflation, increased energy costs and rate hikes set by the Southern California Metropolitan Water District.

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