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

We're asking for voluntarily conservation of water and to not plant any new landscaping until the drought passes.

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.

Don't water all the grass. Just soak around the tree, foundation.

(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.

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.