Starting June 1st, six million southern Californians won’t be able to water their lawns more than once a week find other ways to get water use down to about 80 gallons per day per person. But that’s not the case for 14 cities in the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California’s service area that are exempt from the new drought restrictions.
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Colorado River water use not price-moderated, despite drought
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REGION San Diego area water prices and regulations don’t relate directly to the growing scarcity of water in the drought-stricken Colorado River Basin, from which the region imports about half its supply.
“There is no plan or expectation that the (contingency plan) will be implemented this year,” the Water Authority’s Jeff Stephenson said Monday.
“Generally speaking, price isn’t used as a mechanism to ration water in California, nor to identify its scarcity, because of the system of water rights that we’ve adopted over time,” said Kurt Schwabe, chair of environmental economics and policy at UC Riverside.