Californians’ water usage is down 9% and other takeaways from The Times’ updated water tracker

California residents are using about 8 fewer gallons of water per day than they did during the last drought emergency, according to newly released state data.

Between April 2023 and last April, urban water users consumed an average of 77 gallons per person per day. That comes out to a 9% decrease since the drought emergency ended in March 2023. This period includes the effects of two consecutive wet winters, the first of which relieved the years-long historic drought that had gripped the western United States since 2021.

Read more at the Los Angeles Times.