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How much water a community gulps varies across the Sacramento region
Posted by Sacramento Bee: Phillip Reese on March 9th, 2014
Sacramento Bee: The ongoing drought has cities across the Sacramento region urgently trying to cut water use.
Some have a lot further to go than others.
Though they share the same climate, Granite Bay residents use almost twice as much water per person as Sacramento residents, state data show. Woodland residents consume more per person than nearby Davis residents. Citrus Heights residents use less water than their neighbors in Orangevale.
The patterns were taken from water use management plans recently...