City agencies in hot water for wasting H20

Remember this footage our reporters shot of L.A. agencies (the DWP, for Pete's sake) wasting water on the very day the city cracked down on residents with strict drought regulations and tough fines? Now they're under the same scrutiny, with orders to conduct audits of their water usage, the results of which will be handed over to the public on a regular basis, Rich Connell reports.

Help out with pix of your own. Here's a great one of city sprinklers turned 180 degrees and watering the street near Echo Park Lake.

-- Veronique de Turenne

Video: Rich Connell and Robert J. Lopez

Comments

[Chris T]

These incidents happen daily on city, county, state and DOT lands throughout Orange County. It amazes me the amount of water that is wasted from very poorly placed and maintained sprinklers. With our current technology you would think that we could have a watering system that doesn't involve spewing water mist into the air where a big portion is blown away or evaporates.