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Jul 2 5 tweets 2 min read
My May 19 to June 20th water bill not showing any better savings from last month. But, I did soak the yard and trees on May 30th before watering restrictions went into place. #drought
That said, apparently saved 4,488 gallons year-to-year for the same period. That's a 40% reduction. 51 gpd usage (including outdoor food garden and fruit trees).
Will see what July looks like -- that will remove the soaking from May, and new water-saving shower (Navy showers!). Still, probably 20gpd usage right now from hydroponic tomatoes will impact the water savings.
The target for MWD is to get people to 80 gallons of water per day. latimes.com/california/sto…
Funny enough, they have "55 gallons per person per day that the state is delivering for “health and safety” purposes through the State Water Project" -- so we're doing health, safety AND tomatoes.

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15% discount, which was fine by me!
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This looks like some kind of park.
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Within distance of this spot...
Field Day Site
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