SF News California Water Officials Pass Ban on Ornamental Lawn Watering, More Restrictions Coming On Tuesday, state officials approved a program to cut water usage across California by 10 to 20 percent, and this includes a blanket ban on the watering of ornamental lawns in communal areas of subdivisions and on all commercial properties.
SF News Bay Area Slightly Decreased Water Usage During the Drought to Date, While Palm Springs' Usage Went Up 19% The majority of residents and businesses in the state of California appear to have ignored calls for voluntary reductions in water usage during the current drought emergency. The Bay Area is the only exception, but even we only decreased usage by less than 2%.
SF News Marin Becomes First Bay Area County to Announce Drought Water-Use Restrictions We're in another drought, and likely within the next month or two we will be hearing about water-use rules and neighbors tattling on neighbors for washing their cars all over the Bay Area. But right now, the only county making mandatory restrictions official is Marin County.
SF News California Lifts Mandatory Water Restrictions Though Drought Continues While an El Niño rainy season skewed North and left California drier than anticipated, the State Water Resources Control Board met, as expected, to revisit our mandatory 25 percent water use reduction restrictions.
SF News Uneven El Niño Skewed North, But Water Restrictions May Ease In Parts Of CA With just weeks left in California's rainy season, El Niño has distributed uneven relief to an arid state. As a result, regulators must consider lifting state water restrictions that took effect last April
SF News Billy Beane's Water Use Was 24 Times That Of His Neighbors This Year The Executive Vice President of the Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane, is a rich man. And, as is often the case with rich men, Beane appears to be used to getting what he wants.
SF News Famed Nudist Colony Arraigned On Charges Of Siphoning Water Amidst CA Drought For the residents of Lupin lodge, a Los Gatos nudist camp with an 80-year history, the drought has been devastating and water — not just for skinny dipping — has been in short supply. Last
SF News In Drought Of Ideas, Public Utilities Commission Redoes Their 'Sexy' Water Conservation Campaign Since San Franciscans will obviously only save water if we're convinced that it's somehow sexy to do so, since last summer the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has employed a series of
SF News California Water Use Dropped 13.5 Percent In April According to data released by the State Water Resources Control Board, this April California reduced its water consumption by 13.5 percent over the same month in 2013. In a doom and gloom
SF News Day Around The Bay: Those Water Usage Fines Might Hit $10,000 The SFPD cites eight times as many black people as they do white people for resisting arrest. [Chron] An iPad app used by pilots in all American Airlines cockpits malfunctioned Tuesday causing widespread
SF News Drought Rules Revised Based On Feedback, SF In Most Lenient Water Usage Tier On Saturday, state water regulators issued a revised plan based on Governor Jerry Brown's April 1 mandate that everyone statewide cut back on water usage by 25 percent. The new plan takes into
SF News Mandatory Gray Water Requirement For New Buildings Set To Freak Out Developers Supervisor Scott Wiener, who's often accused of being in the pocket of developers, has just proposed an aggressive, drought-conscious piece of legislation that would require all new developments in particular the huge and
SF News Governor Explains Why Drought Order Won't Limit Farmers In calling for water restrictions by executive order last week, Governor Jerry Brown has required cities and towns across the state to reduce water use by 25 percent compared with 2013 levels. But
SF News New York Times Wags Its Finger At California's Drought Following Governor Brown's announcement last week about mandatory cutbacks in water usage, the New York Times has suddenly decided to take California's worsening drought seriously with a whole package of pieces discussing things
SF News How Much Water Do Bay Area Residents Really Use? In response to California Governor Jerry Browns' executive order to reduce water use statewide by 25 percent, The New York Times took a dive into the question of how much water Californians really
SF News California Drought: Governor Orders First-Ever Water Restrictions via Imgur While at the annual April 1st Sierra snowpack measurement, California Governor Jerry Brown announced an executive order directing the State Water Resources Control Board to work with local agencies to reduce
