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San Diego Mayor Wants 20% Water (Rationing) Usage Reduction?: Would Require 45% Outdoor Watering Cutback; Indoor Water Usage by 5% (SanFranciscoChronicle)

(March 21, 2009, The San Francisco Chronicle)
A statewide drought emergency has prompted San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders to propose a plan that would reduce the city’s water use by about 20 percent.
The plan announced on Friday would require residents to cut their outdoor water use by 45 percent, and their indoor water use by 5 [...]

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RED ALERT: 75% Chance of Mandatory Water Rationing in San Diego by July 1, 2009: Initial Penalties to be Price-Based; Flow Restrictors to be Put on Violator’s Houses!!!; Mayor Claims Families’ Water Use down 40% over Last Two Years (MSNBC)

(March 7, 2009, MSNBC)
Using the back yard of a Tierrasanta resident as a backdrop, Mayor Jerry Sanders called on San Diegans to get serious about water conservation.
Sanders revealed what he has done personally to conserve and showed clear disappointment in the overall efforts of San Diegans.
“Despite some successes, we still continue to fall shrt of [...]

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Water Managers NEED to Manage People, Not Meters (Aguanomics)

(March 6, 2009, David Zetland, Aguanomics)
(via DW) The Mayor’s office sent out this press release [pdf] yesterday:
San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders is calling on all San Diegans to step up water conservation efforts in the wake of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s state of emergency declaration for California’s water supplies.
“The Governor’s message is right on target,” said [...]

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