You might have heard; Nevada Irrigation District (NID) customers are under a mandate to conserve 20 percent of water as our community faces an emergency shortage. Without efforts to use more efficiently use water, the local supply will be depleted to dangerously low levels this summer.

Severe damage to infrastructure owned by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) at Lake Spaulding has effectively cut off water supplies in 2024 and now into 2025. The lack of access to normal watershed runoff means the District must rely upon the limited water storage in Rollins and Scotts Flat reservoirs. Last year, the reservoirs were drawn down to extremely low levels, and the impact in 2025 is expected to be similar. The mandatory 20 percent water conservation helps preserve some of that limited w

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