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Monrovia Requiring Residents To Cut Water Usage By 10%

"There was one customer who was well over 120 units of their base allocation so $400 on their monthly water bill," said Monrovia city ma ...

(CBS Los Angeles)

March 14, 2022

MONROVIA (CBSLA) — Monrovia will require its residents to cut their water usage or face fines, as California continues to dry out amid this historic drought.

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Beginning this March, the city of Monrovia voted to require every resident to reduce their water usage by 10% or face fines averaging at $10 a month or more for extreme water wasters. The city will compare a household’s usage in Feb. 2022 to Feb. 2020.

“There was one customer who was well over 120 units of their base allocation so $400 on their monthly water bill,” said Monrovia city manager Dylan Feik.

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