In 2002, the first year that the Sewer Authority Mid-Coastside gave serious thought to recycling wastewater into irrigation water on the coast, the winter was wet and Crystal Springs Reservoir, an important storage site for summer drinking water, was high.

But Wednesday's declaration of a statewide drought came as no surprise to Peninsula water agencies, which have been coping with water scarcity concerns by asking customers to voluntarily cut their water use by 10 percent this summer.

Source: San Mateo County (CA) Times

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