Los Angeles transportation agency to cut water use by 20 percent

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles County transportation agency, facing a catastrophic drought that has led the state to issue its first ever mandatory cutbacks in urban water use, has decided to reduce its water consumption by 20 percent by 2017.

The motion, which passed the Metropolitan Transportation Agency Board of Directors by a unanimous vote on Thursday, would limit landscape irrigation to two days a week and would remove or limit ornamental turf at MTA facilities.

The measures also require a public database be put in place by October 2015 to disclose water use at all MTA facilities, partly by installing water meters.

“The areas include both bus and rail divisions, landscape irrigation, toilets and wash basins and mobile cleaning vehicles,” said Rick Jager, communications manager for the MTA.

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