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Temecula area homeowners will be getting a little budgetary wiggle room in the near future.

The Rancho California Water District approved a new water rate structure on Thursday morning that should make it easier for people to water their lawns or fill up their pools.

The structure, which the district calls “stage 3c” of its “water shortage contigency plan,” includes a suspension of the drought surcharges that were imposed last year following Gov. Jerry Brown’s statewide water use reduction mandate.

U.S. government weather forecasters said Thursday they expect the La Niña weather phenomenon to take place in the Northern Hemisphere later this year, as El Niño conditions have dissipated.

The forecast means Southern California could experience a drier winter, following a winter that didn’t bring as much rain as expected.

The Climate Prediction Center, an agency of the National Weather Service, said in its monthly forecast La Niña is favored to develop during the summer and pegged the chance of La Niña developing in the fall and winter 2016-17 at 75 percent.

SAN DIEGO (CNS) – You still shouldn’t water the lawn too much, but the San Diego region will have enough water supply to meet demand for the next three years even if they’re dry, the County Water Authority reported Thursday.

The agency’s Board of Directors, after hearing the projections from staff, voted unanimously to take a regional approach to the state’s new process for certifying supply sufficiency for the Water Authority’s 24 member agencies, and to establish a long-term drought awareness initiative.

San Diego County, CA — The San Diego County Water Authority and its member agencies that serve the region’s cities and communities have enough water supplies to meet the region’s demands for the next three years — even if the drought continues, the SDCWA announced Thursday.

That is according to initial calculations under a new state formula shared with the Water Authority’s Board of Directors Thursday, according to James Palen, a Water Authority spokesman.

You still shouldn’t water the lawn too much, but the San Diego region will have enough water supply to meet demand for the next three years even if they’re dry, the County Water Authority reported Thursday.

The agency’s board of directors, after hearing the projections from staff, voted unanimously to take a regional approach to the state’s new process for certifying supply sufficiency for the water authority’s 24 member agencies, and to establish a long-term drought awareness initiative.