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RESOLUTION NO. 88-65 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA ADOPTING A PNDGRAM OF VOLUNTARY ~%TER CONSERVATION TO REDUCE WATER CONSUMPTION BY TEN PERC~i~T ~q~EAS, the City of Santa Ana, a municipal eorporatlon, is empowered to provide water service within its boundaries; and ~IEREAS, because of inadequate rainfall, the State Department of Water Resources declared 1987 to be a dry year, and 1988 a critically dry year, and only the existence of water in storage bas prevented the declaration of a drought year, which may nevertheless be subsequently declared if stored water falls below a critical level; and W/~REAS, precipitation for the current water year bas been substantially below normal, particularly in the watersheds of the imported water supplies serving Southern California, and many cc~munities in the State will suffer water shortages; and WHEREAS, the Governor of the State of California bas asked all Californians to conserve water on a voluntary basis; and W/~EREAS, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Metropolitan), in recognition of the critical water conditions existing in the State, is considering curtailment of agricultural water deliveries in 1989; and W~EREAS, in recognition of the critical water conditions existing in the State, Metropolitan's Board of Directors approved a Resolution on the California Drought (Resolution) on May 9, 1988; and WHEREAS, the Resolution requests every water supplier in Metropolitan's service area to alert its custc~ers to the necessity and means of saving water and to carefully monitor water uses to prevent waste; and W/~_~REAS, the Resolution further requests every water supplier in Metropolitan's service area to develop and implement specific water conservation measures with a goal of reducing water use by 10 percent; and