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NEWSOM: “There is an additional order, we are also signing today an executive order. That executive order specifically will lay out a framework to encourage voluntary water conservation efforts in the state of California. I want to underscore, voluntary water conservation here in the state of California. We’re hopeful that people will take that mindset that we brought into, that people of the state of California will take that mindset they brought into the last drought and extend that forward with a 15 percent voluntary reduction, not only on residences but industrial commercial operations and agricultural operations. We are encouraging people to do common sense things like reducing the amount of irrigation, the water you’re doing out on your lawns, for example, reducing perhaps the time that you are in a shower. Not eliminating that time, not here as a nanny state, we’re not trying here to be oppressive. Again, these are voluntary standards.”