To curtail water use, Best Foods has swapped its dishes for paper plates and foam cups.
San Diego, which imports about 85percentt of its water because of a lack of aquifers, asked residents this year to curtail water use.
At the same time, the Western drought has lowered supplies in reservoirs, while legal rulings to protect endangered species will curtail water deliveries from Northern California.
Most large hotels in Puerto Rico have big water tanks and some recycle wastewater to irrigate green areas, but many have curtailed water use, said Frank Comito, CEO of the Florida-based Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association.
NEW YORK Because of an editing error, the City Room column in some editions on Aug. 10 about the retrofitting of sprinklers in city playgrounds in an effort to curtail water use misstated the amount of water the new sprinklers could save over the course of a summer.
Rights to its waters were snatched up in the wake of the gold rush and, even in a particularly savage drought (see chart), it is hard for the state to curtail water use by those who have held them for more than a century.
But to be on the safe side, the city added five of its own proposals, including a plan that would provide a water reserve in Lake Whitney to be released to the river should conditions deteriorate; a drought response that would ask customers to "conserve or curtail water use" and more extensive attention to dissolved oxygen, salinity and wildlife.
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Duterte is also an advocate for the environment, and he recently pushed through legislation that would change mining practices to curtail water contamination affecting the rural poor, whose needs are easy to ignore.
Marlin and sailfish have already been curtailing deep water diving in search of prey.
