While applauding the response of Californians, many water policy experts also cautioned against seeing conservation as a permanent panacea.
A deeded conservation easement is a permanent restriction voluntarily placed on a piece of property by a homeowner, defining the kind of development and use that would be permitted.
Tonight, I propose creating a permanent conservation fund to restore wildlife, protect coastlines, save natural treasures from California redwoods to the Florida Everglades.
A permanent conservation easement attached to the property when it was given to the state bars buildings and any development, power or telephone lines, mining, off-road vehicles or any improvement of the unpaved roads.
Those plans involved expanding the operation, owned by a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, onto land that Rio Tinto had pledged in 2003 as a permanent conservation zone to shield Bulga from the mine.
While the drought has become less severe in recent months – leading some communities and water agencies to abandon strict restrictions – Brown's executive order on Monday made clear that the drought was not over and that California must transition its short-term emergency measures into a permanent conservation plan.
In the long-term, fences may ultimately prove to be as much a threat to biodiversity as the threats they are meant to exclude, and a new research agenda should arise to ensure that conservation fences do not remain a permanent part of the landscape.
Therese Kosterman, a spokeswoman for Beverly Hills, said the city "is evaluating" the water board's new guidelines and officials will set any new savings target "with the goal of encouraging maximum water conservation and efficiency and maintaining a permanent state of vigilance over water use".
One of the things the Commissioner has instituted is a permanent program of water conservation.
What the city has proposed is to take several existing transitional programs that allow units to be billed at flat rates and make them part of a permanent program called the Conservation Program for Multiple Family Residential Buildings.
The move underscores President Clinton's push to create a permanent endowment to finance land conservation.
