California Imposes Permanent Water Restrictions on Residents

Residential water restrictions could save 500,000 acre feet. Greeeat...

Mind you, it's a drop in the bucket compared to the 26 MILLION acre feet of water used by agriculture and the 9 MILLION acre feet used by industry.

The state's residential water use is around 15%. The top line-items in the remaining are dairy (for raising alfalfa and thirsty cows) and almonds.

> about 500,000 acre-feet of water

"My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it."

The US and they're obstinate use of imperial ...

Water restrictions at semiconductor fabs would also drastically help improve water availability.