Note the fact that your entire article conveniently glosses over the reality that the only reason they are dipping into ground water to begin with is because these environmentalist loons let 800,000 acre feet of pure pristine mountain run off water go straight into the ocean. If not for that move, there would be plenty of water, but instead, radical liberals dumped half of the naturally recurring water supply, and now want to ration the only water that remains. You guys are fucking insane.
This is pure orwellian government control. Government causes water supply shortage, then idiotic people are convinced that we need more government to control the situation, that the government created to begin with.