Over the last few weeks, things have happened in Sacramento and Los Angeles to dramatically reduce the water use restrictions that have impacted Valley Center and all of California for well over the last year.

While the El Niño was somewhat of a bust, it still provided enough rain and snowpack to California’s key watershed to move the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) in Sacramento and the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) Board in Los Angeles to loosen the reins outside landscape irrigation and water use by commercial agriculture.