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Water conservation is nothing new at Senen. They've been doing it all along. But this year it may just take on an added meaning for all 800 residents of the ranches, especially when they're neighbors wells run dry when sin in took over this 1700 acre ranch. They

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planned ahead for a non rainy day, maybe not for so many non rainy days, usually at this time of year synonyms. Main reservoir is brimming with about a half million gallons of water this year. However, the water reserve is down to about one third of its

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normal level grim evidence of the drought of 76 for the 800 or so residents of seven Annan's three big branches in western marin. The drought has been no big thing up to now. An ounce of prevention is produced gallons of cure with a complete the independent

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water system. The ranches are just not in trouble yet but to protect their precious supplies. Conservation programs have been implemented for water use, simple measures like turning off a running tap while brushing teeth has brought the per capita daily use of water down to about 45

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gallons per person. The rest of the population in marin averaging somewhere between 100 and 25 100 80 gallons of day. one of the main things we do is we have people going around, I form like groups of people, a lot of the young kids around here,

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they walk around and they sneak into the showers and make sure that people aren't taking long showers. We have posters, we we put posters up over the toilets that when you're, when you're standing there, you see a poster that says, is this flush necessary? And it

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makes you think, I guess last year you guys bob pitched in and helped the neighbors a little bit too. Yeah, we've shipped water. We've actually trucked water. We have some old surplus water tankers. We've actually taken water out from the dam here and from our springs

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and and trucked it to neighbors who were in need of water. Some of the farmers, you know, who are running low on water. We've done that a number of times in the past as the dryness continues, even synonym begins to worry. They hope they'll have some

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rain and have it soon from the western edges of marin County. This is ERic smith Channel five Eyewitness News.