Santa Clara County officials are taking drastic measures to conserve water and it could all start at the end of May.
That’s alarming when all 10 of the district’s reservoirs were just 24% full on Monday.
Baker said they’re proposing a new ordinance with enforcement restrictions that will be presented to the board soon.“What we’ll start with is letters, door hangers, those type of educational types of things then we’ll ramp up to per occurrence bases of fines,” said Baker. “We're going to have to or pretty soon we’ll have nothing to drink,” said resident Kirk Rose.He ripped out his lawn and went from watering that once a day to watering his drought-resistant cactus once a month.
“I was saving up so I could buy a fishing boat for my truck and there's no water to go fishing, so we gotta do something,” said Kirk.This article tagged under:
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