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Manteca water use climbing as drought worsens
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The San Luis Reservoir west of Los Banos is at 12 percent of its 2 million acre-feet of storage as of Wednesday. - photo by Photo Contributed

Manteca’s water use continues to accelerate as the drought deepens. The city used 151.8 gallons per capita on a daily basis last month. That’s up 17.9 percent on a per capita basis from April of 2019.