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Restaurants, stores and other property owners will be banned from using drinking water to irrigate their lawns under a new California law. Assembly Bill 1572 requires business owners, public ...
The permanent ban in California falls in line with the governor’s goals around stretching the state’s water supply, including converting 500 million square feet of ornamental turf to climate ...
California's drought rules forbid the use of drinking water for irrigating grass that is purely decorative at businesses and some residential areas.
The nation's largest water supplier has declared a drought emergency for all of Southern California, clearing the way for potential mandatory water restrictions early next year that could impact ...
The Water Conservation Act of 2009 (also known as Senate Bill X7-7 or SB X7-7 [1]) is a California state law that requires the state to reduce urban water consumption by 20% by the year 2020. It originated as a bill written by Democratic Senator Darrell Steinberg and was enacted on November 10, 2009. [ 1 ]
The Metropolitan Water District has lifted mandatory water restrictions for nearly 7 million people, but is still urging conservation efforts.
DWR must determine regulations to evaluate, implement, and coordinate GSPs based on conditions of "hydrology, water demand, regulatory restrictions that affect the availability of surface water, and unreliability of, or reductions in, surface water deliveries to the agency or water users in the basin, and impact of those conditions on achieving ...
The water restrictions are set to take effect June 1 and are aimed at reducing water use by about 35%. Esquivel said the increased aridity that California faces requires a transition ...