Durham residents will soon face tighter water rules as drought conditions worsen across central North Carolina.
Beginning next Monday, Durham will tighten conservation measures after declines at its drinking water reservoirs, including a halt on using city water for landscape irrigation, according to WUNC News.
What’s happening?
Durham will enter Stage 2 water restrictions next Monday, with city officials tying the change to falling levels at Lake Michie and Little River Reservoir.
During Stage 2, the city will stop issuing new landscape-exemption licenses, ask large water users to reduce consumption by 30%, limit car washing to compliant commercial facilities, and bar both spray and drip irrigation with city water…