10% Reduction in Water Use Urged

Redondo Beach residents are being asked to voluntarily cut back their water use by 10% as part of a regionwide effort to cut water consumption during the drought.

Residents are being asked to repair leaky faucets and to refrain from hosing down driveways, watering lawns between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. and refilling decorative fountains. The city is also urging restaurants not to serve water unless customers ask for it.

The voluntary conservation effort is the first phase in a drought response plan formulated by the Metropolitan Water District, which supplies 60% of the water used by the city of Los Angeles and the surrounding six-county region.

Faced with dwindling water supplies in the West’s fourth consecutive drought year, the MWD has called on the 300 communities it serves to initiate voluntary cutbacks and to pass emergency rationing laws in case they are needed.