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California Water Board To Continue Emergency Rules

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  California’s Water Resource Control Board could vote tomorrow and expand and continue the state’s emergency conservation regulations. The board is looking to tighten lawn watering.

Many of the conservation rules remain the same, but two big changes focus on lawn watering.

Instituting a two day a week limit in communities that are currently without a plan and prohibiting watering within 48 hours of rain.

Senior environmental scientist Max Gomberg says the restrictions have saved nearly 2-million gallons of water since last June.

“Overall, these are modest steps. We are in the fourth year of a drought and trying to make everyone aware statewide,” Gomberg said.

Clovis is one of the central valley’s communities that has, and will be able to keep, three days of watering.

Assistant Public utilities manager Lisa Khoen only allowing two days would stress their water system…

“If they water longer, that means more water is going to be required on those days. So it kind of can be an operational problem,” Khoen.

The board could also take steps to make these regulations permanent.

Jeffrey Hess is a reporter and Morning Edition news host for Valley Public Radio. Jeffrey was born and raised in a small town in rural southeast Ohio. After graduating from Otterbein University in Columbus, Ohio with a communications degree, Jeffrey embarked on a radio career. After brief stops at stations in Ohio and Texas, and not so brief stops in Florida and Mississippi, Jeffrey and his new wife Shivon are happy to be part Valley Public Radio.