Members of the state Water Resources Control Board are scheduled to decide Tuesday whether to bring back what had been temporary water bans from California’s 2013-2017 drought and make them permanent. Water officials expect neighbours to be responsible for detecting most of the wasteful water use and they have no plans to add more enforcement officers if the permanent restrictions are adopted. California already has a website, http://www.savewater.ca.gov , that allows citizens to report wasteful water use. Jerry Brown lifted California’s drought emergency status a year ago, after a wet winter that snapped a historic 2013-2017 drought. Strict 25 per cent conservation orders for cities and towns and other watering restrictions phased out with the end of the emergency status.

Source: National Post February 20, 2018 06:35 UTC