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    Unprecedented restrictions ordered as Southern California's Metropolitan Water District declares water shortage emergency

    by Ian James, Los Angeles Times Apr 26, 2022 5 minutes
    Diamond Valley Lake in Hemet, California. Diamond Valley Lake is a major drinking water source for 18 million Southern Californians. On April 26, 2022, the Metropolitan Water District declared a water shortage emergency and moved to restrict outdoor watering to just once a week in parts of Ventura and Los Angeles counties, as well as certain areas of the Inland...

    LOS ANGELES — Southern California officials on Tuesday took the unprecedented step of declaring a water shortage emergency and ordering outdoor usage be restricted to just one day a week for about 6 million people in parts of Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties.

    The outdoor watering restrictions will take effect June 1 under the decision by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and will apply to areas that depend on water from the drought-ravaged State Water Project.

    “We are seeing conditions unlike anything we have seen before,” said Adel Hagekhalil, the district’s general manager. “We need serious demand reductions.”

    The MWD’s board has never before taken such a step and the resolution adopted by the water wholesaler will bring the first widespread water restrictions imposed in Southern California during the current extreme drought.

    California’s drought,

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