David McNew/Getty Images

Last week, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California released a Water Supply Alert for all of Southern California. This regional call to action encourages water agencies (like Central Basin) to do what we can to help our residents and businesses reduce their water-use. In light of these announcements, our friends at EcoTrekker sent us this creative list of 53 ways to use less water. To help us assess the immediate local impact of the Water Supply Alert, reporter Karl Zynda from EGP News provides this analysis:

Karl Zynda
EGP Staff Writer

One week after Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a statewide drought, a Water Supply Alert has been issued by the Metropolitan Water District Board of Directors.

The alert, issued Wednesday, calls for cities, counties and local public water agencies, such as the Central Basin Municipal Water District, to conserve water by alerting the public to the drought and educating it about water saving practices, creating and enforcing water use ordinances, and development of additional local water supplies. The Central Basin Municipal Water District, which serves Bell Gardens, Montebello, Monterey Park, and part of Commerce, buys water from the MWD.

To read the full article, click here.

Share this article:

This entry was posted on Monday, June 16th, 2008 at 9:25 am and is filed under Central Basin News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.