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July 17, 2014

Asked to cut water use 20%, Calif. uses more

  • Many urban and suburban residents continued to douse lawns and fill pools, while farmers fallowed hundreds of thousands of acres.
    • By DON THOMPSON
    Associated Press

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Some Southern California water districts became so good at saving water and building their own water storage facilities in recent decades that residents are not feeling the effects of the worst drought to hit the state in a generation.

    That's a problem.


     
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