(17:20) CALIFORNIA – The State of California has fallen just short of the Governor’s mandated water conservation target over the 9 months that ended in February. Governor Brown’s mandate was for a 25 percent cut in water-use, and overall the state’s water-users came in at 23.9 percent. Although water-users came up a tad short, an official with the State Water Resources Board said she was very impressed by the “enormous effort” by water-users in this state. February was the end of the governor’s mandated water conservation goal. Even though we had an El Nino winter in northern California, southern California got very little rain; and so the state is going into its 5th year in a drought. Because of the continued drought, the new goal is to get water-use down 20 percent.
