California starts water conservation awareness
SACRAMENTO (KABC) -- California water officials are planning to spend $4 million in the coming year to get out the message: conserve water. In February, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a statewide drought, after three consecutive years of below-average rainfall. To encourage conservation, the California Department of Water Resources will launch an awareness project that includes public service announcements instructing people in ways to save water.
Lester Snow, Director of the Department of Water Resources, says
Californians respond to calls for conservation, but need reminding:
"What we find on a lot of these kind of practices is people don't
continue them," he said. "They respond in a drought and then they go
back. They leave the faucet running when they're brushing their teeth.
So, a lot of these things are making people aware and going back to the
tried and true. And our target, what the Governor asked for in his
emergency proclamation, was for every Californian to reduce their water
use by 20 percent."
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