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Article: Preventing water woes: Cities enforce ordinances to keep from being left high, dry this summer.
- Article from:
- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- June 8, 2006
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Byline: Roy Appleton
Jun. 8--Frisco is playing hardball with water sprinklers. Other cities are writing citations, all before another punishing North Texas summer arrives. Dallas and many other cities are leaning, at least for now, on warnings and public education to enforce week-old restrictions on outdoor watering. Prolonged drought has drawn down Lake Lavon, the primary water source of the North Texas Municipal Water District. In response, the district asked Frisco and the 60 or so other cities and customers it serves to limit landscape watering to once a week, effective June 1. Most cities have complied or are in the process of doing so, but ...
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