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LA Residents Double Reports of Water Waste Amid Drought and Irrigation Restrictions

Los Angeles residents apparently have no patience for water-wasters during the current drought.

During the first six months of the year, the city’s MyLA311 system received 1,643 reports about water waste or people violating irrigation rules, more than double the number from the first half of last year, according to data released today by a nonprofit news organization.

L.A. Is Taking a Different Path on Severe Watering Restrictions. Here’s How It Will Work

Los Angeles residents now know the plan for significantly cutting water use beginning June 1.

The Department of Water and Power differs in some key ways from other local agencies that are struggling with unprecedented water restrictions due to the drought.

The restrictions, ordered by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, target areas that rely heavily or entirely on the State Water Project, a Northern California water supply that officials say is dangerously low after the state’s driest-ever start to the year.