'We don't have enough water supplies right now to meet normal demand,' warns one state official. 'The water is not there.'
"We don't have enough water supplies right now to meet normal demand," warns one state official."The water is not there."As California endures a third year of record-breaking drought exacerbated by the climate crisis, officials on Tuesday declared the state's first-ever water shortage emergency and ordered outdoor use restrictions that will affect around six million people in three southern counties.
"We're reaching uncharted territory here and we need all Southern Californians to be part of the solution."that it will limit outdoor watering to one day per week, effective June 1 in parts of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Ventura counties. "We don't have enough water supplies right now to meet normal demand. The water is not there," MWD spokesperson Rebecca KimitchAdel Hagekhalil, MWD's general manager,:"We're reaching uncharted territory here and we need all Southern Californians to be part of the solution. We need everyone to take action to reduce their water use immediately. This drought emergency declaration helps us all move in the same direction.
MWD, the nation's largest wholesaler of treated water, draws supplies from the Colorado River and State Water Project—a complex system involving aqueducts, pumping stations, and power plants to redistribute water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in the north to farmland and cities to the south—to serve 19 million people in 26 public water jurisdictions.
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