Southern California Asks Millions To Cut Outdoor Water Use Amid Drought
Southern California’s water supplier on Tuesday asked about 6 million people to limit their outdoor watering to one day a week amid a water shortage emergency owing to the ongoing drought.
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD), the largest supplier of treated water in the United States, asked residents in parts of Los Angeles, Ventura, and San Bernardino counties to cut their outdoor watering.
“We don’t have enough water supplies right now to meet normal demand. The water is not there,” MWD spokeswoman Rebecca Kimitch said.
“This is unprecedented territory. We’ve never done anything like this before.”
According to the MWD, the affected regions face an “emergency because of reliance on severely limited” supplies from Northern California.
“The past three years are projected to be the driest in our state’s history, leading to drought conditions unlike anything we’ve experienced before,” it noted.
The MWD uses water from the Colorado River and the State Water Project to supply 26 public water agencies that provide water to 19 million people, or 40 percent of the state’s population.- READ MORE
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