Bradley Gives Details of Water-Saving Plan

Mayor Tom Bradley unveiled details Tuesday of a $2-million program to send “conservation consultants” door-to-door to hand out and, if necessary, install water-saving devices at up to 100,000 Los Angeles homes.

The program, which was developed by the Board of Public Works over the past year, will begin in July and could take three to four months to complete. Scores of canvassers will comb selected neighborhoods citywide in an effort to persuade residents to cut their water use. Low-flow shower heads and toilet dams will be available free of charge. The program follows an earlier effort by the Department of Water and Power, in which 1.2 million conservation kits were given away.

“Under this plan, the city will make it so simple to conserve . . . that our workers will offer to personally install a low-flow shower head or place a dam in the water closet in the household,” Bradley said.

With the city’s water supply dwindling in the fourth year of a statewide drought, Bradley has asked the City Council to approve a mandatory water rationing plan.