Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...average Massachusetts household uses approximately 60 gallons of water each day, according to MWRA Executive Director Paul Levy. A 10 percent reduction in water use would be easily accomplished through simple measures...
Levy stressed the need to attend to household problems that cause water waste, such as fixing leaky faucets and pipes, limiting toilet use and cutting back on garden watering...
Levy also unveiled a public service announcement on water conservation featuring Boston Celtic Robert Parish that has been made available to local television stations...
DeVillars said Quabbin, the largest reservoir in the Northeast, is usually at 81 percent capacity and is down this year to 68 percent. It is at its lowest level since March 1967, when it fell to 45 percent. The last water emergency was declared when the reservoir's level was 65 percent in 1965, the beginning of a four-year drought, according to MDC records...
...Commissioner William Geary warned that the low level in the reservoir could hurt the quality of drinking water...