It has been coming for a long time. It would seem that the right people are finally catching on. We have been experts in rain harvesting for years and already have solutions to a problem here in California and a nation that will be paying significantly higher prices for goods shipped from our increasingly DRY State.

California Gov. Jerry Brown ordered officials Wednesday to impose statewide mandatory water restrictions for the first time in history as surveyors found the lowest snow level in the Sierra Nevada snowpack in 65 years of record-keeping.

Standing in dry, brown grass at a site that normally would be snow-covered this time of year, Brown announced he had signed an executive order requiring the State Water Resources Control Board to implement measures in cities and towns to cut the state's overall water usage by 25 percent compared with 2013 levels.

The move will affect residents, businesses, farmers and other users...

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