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REGIONAL LEGISLATIVEUPDATE
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Metropolitan Water District issues water restrictions for several Southern California
Lcounties as State’s Water Board elevates drought level status
ast month, the Metropolitan Water represents 26 local water agencies in Los Angeles, District (MWD) of Southern California Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Ventura Board of Directors approved new counties including the San Diego County Water water use restrictions on Los Angeles, Authority, Eastern and Western Water Municipal San Bernardino, and Ventura counties Districts.
beginning June 1. California’s State Water Control Resources Board (SWRCB), the state’s lead water
agency, voted to increase the drought level among all local water agencies due to the California’s severe drought.
The Desert Water Agency (DWA), Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD), and Imperial County’s Imperial Irrigation District (IID) are separate entities from MWD and receive their water independently from the state water project and the Colorado River. DWA, CVWD, and IID have not indicated if they plan to impose
MWD’s decision comes in response to California’s similar restrictions on their local districts at the time
severe multi-year drought, and the announcement that the state water project will supply regional water agencies with significantly less water for the coming year. MWD will receive only 5 percent of water it typically receives from the state water project.
Metropolitan Water District (MWD) requested local water agencies to voluntary reduce their water usage by 20 percent earlier this year but of those agencies were unable to achieve the voluntary cutbacks. MWD
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Under MWD’s order, regional and local water agencies must enact new water restrictions. Water agencies and districts will have the option to set their restrictions to overall usage or daily usage limits, but districts that fail to reduce the amount of water used could face penalties of $2,000 per acre-foot from the MWD and the state.
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