A Texas city is strictly limiting water consumption as thousands across the state face water shortages.
A small Texas city west of Austin remains under tight water restrictions amid a significant drought. After days of being at the highest emergency level for water conservation, officials said Monday that those restrictions have only slightly been loosened, limiting water consumption to"indoor use only" until further notice.
The city's water provider, the Texas Water Company, draws drinking water from the Canyon Lake Reservoir,73% full . The company had already been"barely" able to keep up with the area's demand, officials said, and the break"was enough for their delivery of water to the City of Blanco to stop altogether."
By Saturday morning, all of the city tanks were full and the supplier once again started to provide some water, but out of an abundance of caution, the cityThe city held onto its highest-level restriction until Monday, when officials said that they have moved from Stage 6 to Stage 5 – banning resident water consumption outside of indoor use, as well as landscape irrigation"until further notice.
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