Enrique Silva, a ‘water policeman’ with the Water Conservation Response Unit in Los Angeles, documents runoff water while patrolling a neighbourhood in Burbank, California yesterday, looking for homes or businesses wasting water during California’s drought. Silva, a Los Angeles native, patrols neighbourhoods, sharing duties with three others to police an area some 460 sq miles, responding to calls or e-mails from people reporting on neighbours watering their lawns or spraying down sidewalks. According to the US Drought Monitor report, nearly 82% of California continues to suffer “extreme” drought, and within that area, more than half the state is under the driest “exceptional” drought category.
