In three months, the Lavon dropped 10 feet this time. But, if the drought continues, we could go down three feet in a few weeks.

(People need to) stop irrigating their lawns. This time in the winter, you don't need to be watering the ground around your home but every couple of weeks.

Our feeling is that I want to warn people before I do it [raise water rates]. It's just good customer service.

It's really difficult to say (if we'll hit Stage 4), but the rainfall that will keep us from going to Stage 4 has not happened yet. The lake didn't go up very much from the rain we had last weekend.

The way the water district has put it, if we do not see a significant improvement in the rainfall, we do expect to hit stage four.

We gave out $75,000 last year in rebates. We budgeted $10,000 more this year.