Still deep in the throes of a statewide drought that has lasted for the past several years, Long Beach residents continued to conserve water at a record-setting pace in November.
The Long Beach Board of Water Commissioners announced today that in the month of November, residents and businesses in Long Beach used 12.5% less water – compared to historical averages over the previous ten years. Long Beach has been a leader in water conservation throughout southern California as the entire state struggles to decrease consumption in the face of a crippling drought.
That was the good news. The bad news is that November was yet another month of extremely low rainfall levels.
“To set another record low for water use in November is great in and of itself,” said Paul Blanco, President of the Long Beach Board of Water Commissioners, according to a press release today. “But to do so in a month that produced zero rainfall, making it the driest November on record, really demonstrates the outstanding job that our residents and businesses are doing to be responsible users of water.”
Click here to read an lbpost.com feature about how the city of Long Beach gets its water.
Photo above: The California Aqueduct, which delivers drinking water to Long Beach and Southern California.