Tattletales Use Twitter to Shame California Water-Wasters
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California’s record drought has unleashed a flood of social-media tattletales.
Vigilantes armed with cameraphones prowl neighborhoods from San Diego to San Francisco documenting sprinklers running freely, runoff flowing from saturated lawns and other water-wasters. Sacramento, California’s capital, received almost 12,000 reports of excessive water use in the first six months of this year, up from about 800 in the period last year.