Mr. Villaraigosa,
I am willing to go through one summer watering my lawn twice a week, in fact, we could get away with watering it ONCE a week ... IF ... IF you send out your crews to adjust school lawns to STOP with the automatic sprinklers when it rains, IF you turn off the shrubbery watering along freeways and have it come on ONCE a week, IF you use some of the city funds in conjunction with county and state funds to BUILD new water reservoirs.
This past rainy season we received on the very low end, about 8 inches of rain. In the hills above the Valley, over 14 inches. What isn't absorbed into the water table is run off and goes to the ocean. We have not built a new water reservoir in decades. Yet millions of new occupants reside in Los Angeles using hundreds of gallons a week, each. Think if we had more water reservoirs around the county, even a few within the city, or the state - think how much less serious this would all be if we made use of the water that falls on us.
Los Angeles restricts lawn watering to 2 days a week
Associated Press
06/01/2009
LOS ANGELES — It's now illegal to water lawns in the nation's second-largest city on any day other than Mondays and Thursdays.
New mandatory water conservation rules went into effect today in Los Angeles as the city faces a water supply shortage for a third consecutive year.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power says the city gets most of its water from elsewhere in the state and those supplies are being limited by drought and regulatory restrictions.
The department is also reducing by 15 percent the amount of water that customers can purchase at the lowest rate, known as Tier 1. Customers who don't cut usage by 15 percent will be charged at a higher rate for every gallon over their Tier 1 allotment.
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