Top 10 Reasons for CA Cities to Prohibit Certain Outdoor Water Uses

Top 10 Reasons for CA Cities to Prohibit Certain Outdoor Water Uses

What outdoor uses should cities be prohibiting? Hosing patios, streets, gutters, sidewalks, driveways, parking lots and store fronts; Using water on landscaped areas more than three days each week; Watering landscaped areas in the middle of the day for 15, 20 and sometimes 30 minutes, per station; and overwatering to the point of causing run-off.

1. Drought and other natural climate conditions of California
2. Depleted emergency water supply reserves throughout California
3. The permanent reduction to imported water that the Bay Area, Central Valley and Northern California typically recieve from northern California
4. The permanent reduction to imported water that southern California typically has recieved from the Colorado River watershed
5. The anticipated additoinal curtailment of imported water deliveries from northern California to southern California due to endangered species issues; delta smelt, longfin smelt, salmon
6. California Department of Water Resources announcement that water deliveries from northern California to the Bay Area, Central Valley and southern California, may be 85 percent below wht is being requested for these regions in 2009.
7. Dry La Nina conditions forming in the Pacific Ocean
8. National Weather Service predicts uneventful forecast (no storms anywhere) for next 10-days
9. Southern California imports half its water...imported water sources are becoming increasingly unreliable.
10. Hope is NOT a strategy!