Precipitation has been so abundant in Southern California that water authorities rescinded emergency restrictions imposed last year on nearly 7 million residents to cut back on outdoor watering and conserve supplies during the historic drought.
The water provider encouraged residents to continue to use water efficiently to “prepare for potential“Southern California remains in a water supply deficit,” Tracy Quinn, a member of the board of directors, said in the statement. “The more efficiently we all use water today, the more we can keep in storage for a future dry year.”
The water restrictions imposed last June came during the third consecutive year of extreme drought in the state. They required water agencies in parts of Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties toand to keep usage within certain thresholds. Some jurisdictions imposed steep fines on those who didn’t follow the rules and deployed water monitors to search subdivisions for runaway trickles and excessive sprinklers.
“The amount of water we’re getting is just unbelievable,” said Mike McNutt, a spokesman of the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District in Southern California. “It’s total whiplash.”, installing water-flow restricting devices on a couple hundred homes that repeatedly failed to stay within their water budgets and calling on residents in the affluent hills north of Los Angeles to conserve.
He said he hoped that the spirit of thrifty water use — and moving away from thirsty lawns — continues.The restrictions last summer focused on communities whose water came from the California State Water Project, which brings water through reservoirs and canals from the northern part of the state to the south. At the time, agencies that relied on the State Water Project were only getting 5 percent of their allocations. After the abundant rains this winter, that number has risen to 35 percent.
their historic averages and in the past week, California officials released water from Lake Oroville for the first time in four years.
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