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During the month of January, Californians missed Governor Jerry Brown’s water conservation mandate goal of 25 percent, a first since the mandatory mandate went into effect. Residents saved 24.8 percent, a small margin from the 25 percent goal.
“We’re hoping for every raindrop and every snowflake we can handle. We’re hoping for a miracle March and an awesome April. But we can’t know what the next couple months will bring. And a warm and dry February has proved that we can’t count on El Nino to save us,” State Water Resources Control Board Chair Felicia Marcus said in a statement. “Californians have risen to the occasion as never before. But we have to stay the course. We have to keep it up.”
So far, the state has saved 1,147,672 acre-feet of water since June 2015. The statewide goal is 1.2 million acre-feet.
Statewide average water use for January was the lowest on record at 61 residential gallons per capita per day (R-GPCD), down from 67 gallons per person per day in December 2015.
