Huge gardens, 14 bathrooms, two pools: Too much water is used on the properties of stars like Kim Kardashian and Sylvester Stallone. While there’s a drought all around California.
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Susan Vahabzadeh
The drought, the devastating forest fires, that Europe is going through this summer, the drought and wildfires in California, which have been there for so long and so often, have pushed a little out of the picture. California experienced the third straight year of drought this summer. In Los Angeles, the capital of the entertainment industry, water must be saved. Gardens, for example, can only be watered twice a week for eight minutes. Fields lie fallow, wells have dried up. The area served by the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District includes the small luxury town of Hidden Hills in Los Angeles County. The Las Virgenes Municipal Water District put its concerns in the spotlight last week. The water supplier informed journalists surprisingly precisely when asked: In the Los Angeles Times could then be read very carefullywho committed the worst water sins in the territory of the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District.