By Dave Nyczepir
Route Fifty
The Dublin San Ramon Services District in the San Francisco Bay Area imposed mandatory water use limits on residents in May 2014—about a year before restrictions became mandatory across California—reducing consumption more than 25 percent.
Facing a now-four-year drought, last year the California State Water Project only provided contractors 5 percent of requested water allocations. And the help came in September, after the summer months when demand is highest.
That meant DSRSD’s supplier, which relied on CSWP for 80 percent of its water, could only provide 75 percent of its normal allotment, so the district tapped into its local aquifer.
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