Los Angeles Drought Prompts Call for Drastic Action. By Phil Willon, LATimes, February 10, 2009. "Even with the recent batch of rainstorms, the ongoing drought has grown so severe that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday called for increased citywide water restrictions and the adoption of a tiered water rate that would punish Department of Water and Power customers who fail to conserve. Sprinkler use would be restricted to two days a week under the proposal and, by summer, could be cut to one day a week if the drought continues, Villaraigosa said. The restrictions -- the first of six levels have been in place for more than a year -- and rate changes could be enacted by spring if approved by the City Council and DWP… Water restrictions are nothing new in California, but since the last major drought in the early 1990s the state's population has grown by 9 million."
2009-02-10
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