By Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix
San Francisco officials are issuing a request for all customers of the Hetch Hetchy water system — that’s everyone in the city, plus roughly 1.8 million customers in San Mateo, Santa Clara and Alameda counties — to reduce water use by 10 percent, effective this Friday.
Tyrone Jue, a spokesman for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, said the agency is asking only for a 10 percent reduction, rather than a 20 percent voluntary cut requested by Gov. Jerry Brown, because the water district’s customers are already “very conscious about their water use.”
The agency says San Francisco’s water use is about 88 gallons per capita per day — less than half of the statewide average of 197, according to the agency.
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