The Santa Clara Valley Water District Board of Directors ended
its 10 percent mandatory water conservation today and instead
called for a 10 percent voluntary conservation, indicating that
many water-supply challenges persist despite improved water supply
conditions, according to a district news release.
The Santa Clara Valley Water District Board of Directors ended its 10 percent mandatory water conservation today and instead called for a 10 percent voluntary conservation, indicating that many water-supply challenges persist despite improved water supply conditions, according to a district news release.
The seven-member board voted to replace its mandatory conservation goal with a voluntary conservation goal, largely because of the above average rainfall, healthy groundwater storage levels and the community’s strong conservation effort.
“The water supply conditions in the county have sufficiently improved to the point that mandatory conservation is no longer required. However, we need to continue to conserve voluntarily because many challenges still remain,” Richard Santos said, SCVWD’s board chairman.
The water supply outlook received a boost thanks to the community’s conservation efforts that delivered 20 percent water savings over the last 14 months, exceeding the 15 percent mandatory conservation goal. In March 2009, the board called for mandatory 15 percent water reduction, as the state entered a third year of drought. In June 2010, as the water supply situation improved, the board scaled back the goal to 10 percent mandatory.
