Your guide to the California drought from the Los Angeles Times.
NEWS AND POLICY
Future water policies: The water sector may well take a cue from the energy industry when it looks to the future on conservation. Water officials are hoping to use a mix of customer awareness, more efficient technologies and new policies governing groundwater and rainwater capture. "The reality is that there are so many soft paths that we can take that might have a lot less environmental impact and be a lot less expensive, and still meet our future demand," said Newsha Ajami, director of urban water policy for Stanford's Water in the West initiative.