Wednesday Top of the Scroll: 6 million Southern Californians face order to conserve water
Unprecedented water restrictions are in store for about 6 million Southern Californians, a sign of deepening drought in counties that depend on water piped from the state’s parched reservoirs. The Metropolitan Water District’s board voted unanimously today to require six major water providers and the dozens of cities and local districts they supply to impose one of two options: limit residents to outdoor watering once a week or reduce total water use below a certain target.
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- Sacramento Bee: Millions must cut water use in drought-stricken California
- CNN: Southern California businesses and residents are asked to reduce outdoor watering as drought leaves ‘half the water that we need’ for summer
- San Francisco Chronicle: Oakland, Berkeley residents to see water usage capped amid drought fears
- KRON 4: New East Bay drought measures now in effect
- Vallejo Times-Herald: California drought - New water restrictions coming to 1.4 million East Bay residents
- Los Angeles Times: Unprecedented water restrictions ordered as MWD declares water shortage emergency
- Associated Press: Millions face unprecedented order to conserve water in drought-stricken California
- ABC 7: Watch – 6 million SoCal residents asked to limit outdoor watering to 1 day a week under new restrictions