The Metropolitan Water District has lifted mandatory water restrictions for 7 million people, but is still urging conservation efforts.
Mandatory water restrictions are being lifted for nearly 7 million people across Southern California following winter storms that have boosted reservoirs and eased a severe shortage that emerged during the state’s driest three-year period on record.
“This year’s very wet weather has improved our water supply conditions enough that we no longer need to mandate the most serious of the restrictions that we had on nearly 7 million people,” said Brad Coffey, Metropolitan’s water resource manager. “But because we have to refill our storage that’s been drawn down by this drought, and because of the longstanding drought on the Colorado River, we’re still asking consumers to conserve.
The series of atmospheric river storms have dramatically eased the water-supply deficit since January. Agencies that depend on the State Water Project’s supplies were only able to get 5% of their full allocations last year, but with the storms and the rise in reservoirs levels, state officials have told agencies they will be able to receive 35% of requested water supplies, and that figure is expected to increase further with the latest storms.
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