LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles isn’t the world’s wettest city at the best of times.
But a record drought has triggered extra measures – now including “water police” checking on over-zealous sprinkler users and the like.
The Water Conservation Response Unit is a five-strong team from LA’s Department of Water and Power utility, who aim to “educate customers about the importance of practising water conservation.”
The unit’s director Enrique Silva patrols the sprawling metropolis’s neighbourhoods in an ocean-blue car, looking for people wasting water.
“We will look for people irrigating on the wrong day, especially the one thing we’re looking for is water running in the street, run-off,” he told AFP.
“It can be for any different reason, usually from irrigation being on too long.” — AFP