Summer 2015 - 79
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water consumption
Jerry Brown raises
about what life in
the years ahead, and
faces the prospect of
wetter climates—assuming
permanent change in the
particularly severe cyclical
the governor's executive
areas to reduce water
use by 25 percent.
Brown's order follows action by the State
Water Resources Control Board in March
extending restrictions on outdoor water use and
requiring local water agencies to impose new
restrictions on urban irrigation.
"The reality of a possible water supply
shortage has caused the consumer to rethink all
of their landscape decisions," Dargatz said. "We
do residential development with landscapers,
gardeners and homeowners. A substantial
portion of our business comes out directly by
