NEW WATER RESTRICTIONS: California water officials adopted a ban Tuesday on watering certain green spaces as the state's drought drags on. Here's what the new changes mean for you.
This includes watering of non-functional turf at commercial and industrial sites, and violators can be fined $500 per day.
The ban doesn't apply to parks, sports fields, people's lawns, or to watering trees. It would apply to grass managed by homeowners' associations but not individual residents. "It is dire," said Adel Hagekhalil, the general manager for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California."It is unprecedented. We are in a place that we don't do enough production in the water we're using, we're not going to have enough water for the end of the year."
Meanwhile, officials from numerous water agencies urged the board not to force them all into further restrictions and instead give them more discretion based on their local supply conditions.
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