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Brown grass in a north Davis park
Starting this month, because of the drought, all of us in Davis are supposed to use 28 percent less water than we did two years ago. On today’s show we work out what that means in terms of average daily use per person, how people with houses can tell how much water they use outside, things you should and shouldn’t do, how brown the parks will become, and why we’re told to save even though Davis uses groundwater. The guests are Davis city employees Christine Helweg, community services superintendent, and Jennifer Gilbert, conservation coordinator, who says the city is already getting lots of calls reporting wasted water.