The city of Port Jervis is asking residents to use water more efficiently as reservoir levels remain below 50 percent.
“It’s a bad dry season; we just had intermittent rains,” the city’s Chief Water Plant Operator Scott Decker told The Epoch Times. “What really worries me is the forecast for rain, because if we don’t start watching it now and don’t get more rain to catch up later, then we will be really depleted before it’s too late,” he added.
Decker recommended water conservation practices such as watering lawns in the early morning or late evening, using a dishwasher and clothes washer only when they are fully loaded, and using low-flow shower heads and faucets….