Napa’s cities step back water restrictions following California’s winter storms
Two years ago, Napa County’s cities imposed strict water-use curbs in response to the encroaching pressure of California’s historic drought. The city of Napa, for instance, limited most outdoor residential irrigation to only two days a week, prevented residents from irrigating for much of the day and restricted the trucking of water from city hydrants, all in an effort to cut community water use in 2021 by 20% compared to the year before. But in recent weeks, following a wintertime deluge of rain and snow across the state — which refilled dry reservoirs and packed mountain ranges with unprecedented levels of snow — California’s drought emergency has lifted. Napa’s cities have pulled back their water restrictions as a result.
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