Forget Jerry Brown. Forget the drought scolds. Forget, even, future generations to whom you will bequeath a barren, waterless wasteland.
Just don’t ignore the Splash Brothers.
Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson made it rain once again yesterday for the Warriors. They still don’t have the ability to do that for the state of California. (Give it time.) They have, however, done the next best thing, urging residents of our parched state to keep conserving water.
“If we’re going to take on the drought, we need some defense,” says Curry in the public service announcement plugging the state’s Save Our Water website. The site aims to help Californians cut down water use.
The renewed conservation push comes as drought-weary residents have been counting on El Niño, if and when it arrives, to free us to flush our toilets once again.
But the state has warned that even the anticipated drenching won’t be enough to end the drought. That means the state’s emergency water restrictions will probably be extended past their original February cutoff.
Water reductions in October for the first time fell short of Gov. Jerry Brown’s mandate for a 25 percent reduction. Water officials attributed the skimpier conservation rate to unusually high temperatures. From the time water restrictions went into effect in June, however, the state has cumulatively bested Brown’s mandate. Urban water use is about 27 percent less than it was in the base year of 2013.