California Water Conservation Improves In September, Still Trails 2015

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Urban Californians still are saving less water since mandatory conservation measures were lifted earlier this year in the state’s drought, but monthly figures released Tuesday show the conservation backslide is leveling off.
Californians used 18 percent less water than usual in September than in the same month during the benchmark year of 2013. That compares with 26 percent less usage in September last year when the state’s mandatory conservation order stil