LOS ANGELES – California’s governor called on residents to reduce their water consumption by 15 percent as he extended a state of drought emergency to nearly half the parched US state’s population Thursday.
Governor Gavin Newsom deemed the western state’s unusually dry year a “mega drought” and urged Californians to save scarce water resources by reducing activities such as irrigating lawns and by taking shorter showers.
“We are now two years into a drought, having just come out of a five-year drought that concluded just a few years ago,” said Newsom.
“We’re hopeful that … people in the state of California will take that mindset they brought into the last drought…
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