Los Angeles has grown by about 1 million people in the last three decades, but you wouldn\u2019t know it from the way water has been trickling out of taps and sprinklers lately.<\/p>\n
The city had the lowest recorded water use in 31 years, according to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, which announced Tuesday that usage in February declined to 1979 levels.<\/p>\n
Officials tied the decreased water usage to restrictions that went into effect in 2007, prompted by an ongoing drought. The current regulations limit watering to Mondays and Thursdays, prohibit watering between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. daily and outlaw hosing down driveways and sidewalks, among other provisions. <\/p>\n
\u201cAngelenos understand the urgency for water conservation, their actions show it,\u201d Lee Kanon Alpert, president of the Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Citywide, water use was down more than 20% compared to February 2007, officials said. The reductions varied among commercial, residential and industrial ratepayers, but the largest cutbacks were among single-family homes, which have used nearly 30% less water since February 2007, according to the DWP.<\/p>\n
The news that water customers have cut back is a rare piece of good news for the utility, which is in the midst of a tense<\/a> standoff<\/a> with the mayor and city council over proposed rate hikes.<\/p>\n — Tony Barboza Los Angeles has grown by about 1 million people in the last three decades, but you wouldn\u2019t know it from the way water has been trickling out of taps and sprinklers lately. The city had the lowest recorded water use in 31 years, according to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, which announced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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