据外媒报道，美国加州持续干旱进入第四年，且目前无缓解迹象，3月17日加州水资源控制委员会（State Water Resources Control Board）官员在萨克拉曼多投票通过了延长紧急限水条例，并增加了几条新规定。
按照新规定，从3月底开始，顾客在餐馆吃饭时需要向服务生要水喝；任何人不得在雨后48小时内浇草坪。其他限水条例包括，每周只有两天可给草坪浇水；每个供水商在制定旱灾应急计划时必须限制其客户可以浇水的天数，否则按每星期最多有两天可浇水的新规则。
部分原文报道如下：
Water restrictions are about to get stricter.
Responding to the four-year drought that shows no signs of easing, officials at the State Water Resources Control Board voted Tuesday in Sacramento to extend current emergency water use rules and add several new ones.
By the end of March, you'll have to ask for a glass of water at a restaurant, and you won't be able to water your lawn for 48 hours after rain. Rules limiting landscape watering to two days per week were expanded; now every water supplier must limit the number of days its customers can water. The limit must be specified in drought contingency plans -- if it's not, the new rules stipulate a two-day-per-week maximum.
原文链接：http://www.ocregister.com/articles/water-654548-drought-state.html
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