RSS Feed
EcoWatch: The April 1 snowpack assessment in California, which set an all-time record for lowest snowpack levels in the state’s history, finally spurred Governor Brown’s office to issue an executive order to residents and non-agricultural businesses to cut water use by 25 percent in the first mandatory statewide reduction in the state’s history.
But some groups have been exempted from the water restrictions, specifically big agriculture, which uses about 80 percent of California’s water, and oil companies.......
Read Complete Article at Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS News Feed
Drought-Stricken California Exempts Big Oil and Big Ag from Mandatory Restrictions
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on April 2nd, 2015
Posted in Water Conservation