This is when the state needs to start building more dams. We need more jobs and more water. The population has expanded by 25% and not a single new dam. Then they wonder why we have a water shortage. Really. Plus I thought we needed more clean electricity to run all those new electric cars.

They have been drawing down Shasta Lake for some time to make room for the snow melt from Mt Shasta and water tables in the Central Valley have been rising as well. Another large issue is the loss of revenue of some districts because people have been conserving.

We should shame the EBMUD board for this reckless decision! We are in a drought and need penalties.

My question is are they going to reduce the rate charged to pre-drought days? As I recall, water rate was raised to discourage people from using excessive water. Now with the restriction removed, would they reverse the rate hike or are they going to stay quiet hoping the people forget?

The rate will stay the same. 31.5% increase.

I thought it was over a month ago when Livermore recycling said they were not going back to full hours like last summer.

Seriously wish we could just buy our water from EBMUD.

Zone 7 is not going to end drought conservation due to their own lack of capacity planning.

We used to buy from emud. Our hippie mayor and council at the time decided to switch over. She and her crew are also the ones who decided to put in all these hard water groundwater pumping stations as a means of water supply. We voted them in so its our fault.

The drought will never be over in Pleasanton. It just doesn't work for them - they have so much more control over us with the drought. And, it works that they get to spend millions of residents' dollars to put in recycled water pipes - putting all residents at risk as they rupture gas lines right and left. Wait - did we agree to toilet to tap? That's next, and there will probably be no "vote" - an emergency measure due to poor planning. And the hippie mayor - left behind progeny. Uggghhh.