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Re:Epic Drought in West Is Literally Moving Mountains by dragonwriter on Friday August 22, 2014 @02:19AM (#8211091)
> Before you ration drinking water, you ban or ration washing cars, watering lawns, and laundry.

In the Sacramento region (and I believe other parts of the state), that's already happening. But its fairly light rationing for now, and we're very far from rationing drinking water.

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Re:Epic Drought in West Is Literally Moving Mountains by dredmorbius on Friday August 22, 2014 @07:10AM (#8211601)
Does Sacramento have water meters yet?
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Re:Epic Drought in West Is Literally Moving Mountains by dragonwriter on Friday August 22, 2014 @09:56AM (#8212075)
About half of the city of Sacramento proper does [1], not that you need meters to restrict lawn watering or car washing.

[1] http://portal.cityofsacramento.org/Utilities/Conservation/Wa...

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Re:Epic Drought in West Is Literally Moving Mountains by dredmorbius on Friday August 22, 2014 @05:19PM (#8214016)
While some restrictions can be enforced via other means, metering and noting aberrantly high consumption patterns can both show unobserved violations and find other causes of wasting -- e.g., broken mains or pipes on a property.
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