25% water cuts nothing new to East Bay district
Here it comes...
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/25-water-cuts-nothing-new-to-East-Bay-district-6182528.php
When Gov. Jerry Brown ordered the first-ever statewide water cuts last week, there was consternation across California, with folks everywhere wondering how they could ever chop their water use by 25 percent.
But Brown’s executive order is no big deal to cities in Alameda County’s Tri-Valley area, where that fight went down a year ago....
It wasn’t by choice. Dublin, Pleasanton, Livermore and parts of San Ramon typically get 80 percent of their drinking water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta through the State Water Project. But early last year, the cities learned they would get only 5 percent of their annual allocation, and that wouldn’t arrive until September....
It wasn’t that water wasn’t available — there is an estimated two-year supply in the underground aquifer the area also draws from. But along with long-term worries about pulling out water that’s not being replaced during the drought, there were plenty of technical concerns with relying entirely on that underground resource.