California Puts Mandatory Curbs on Water Use

A sign in the the front yard of a home in the Silver Lake section of Los Angeles urges conserving water on April 2, 2015. Gov. Jerry Brown ordered mandatory water use reductions for the first time in California's history, saying the state's four-year drought had reached near-crisis proportions after a winter of record-low snowfalls. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI