Drought Restrictions Ended

Following unprecedented water conservation and plentiful winter rain and snow, on April 7, 2017 Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. ended the drought state of emergency in most of California, while maintaining water reporting requirements and prohibitions on wasteful practices, such as watering during or right after rainfall.

In response to the Governor's announcement, Provost Persis Drell recently issued a letter to the campus community which acknowledged the excellent community response to the drought and lifted the two day per week domestic watering restriction and the 25% reduction of non-potable irrigation water. She emphasized that water conservation is a way of life in California and at Stanford. It is important that Stanford continues to sustainably manage water resources to be prepared for California’s cyclical weather patterns that are prone to drought and to maintain water supplies for our growing campus.