LA residents told to cut showers as drought deepens

Los Angeles residents were urged on Wednesday to take shorter showers, reduce lawn sprinklers and stop throwing trash in toilets in a bid to cut water usage by 10 percent in the driest year on record.With downtown Los Angeles seeing a record low of 4 inches of rain since July 2006-less than a quarter of normal-and with a hot, dry summer ahead, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said the city needed "to change course and conserve water to steer clear of this perfect storm."It is the driest year since rainfall records began 130 years ago.

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