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A spokesperson for the embassy said the stunt "damaged a 1.5 million gallon water supply on the property, wasting a local environmental resource".

They’ve said the state should instead bolster water supplies by upgrading aging levees in the Delta and investing more in recycling wastewater, capturing stormwater locally and making other improvements to use water more efficiently.

The state is expected to record a third straight year of ample water supplies in the mountains, which hasn’t happened in a quarter of a century.

An historic canal will be given an emergency water supply to stop it from running dry in days.

After he starts the washing machine, the water supply coming out of his kitchen tap turns to a trickle.