Los Angeles considers officially 'drought shaming' water violators

City considers new measures against those who use more water than they should, including publicly naming and shaming perpetrators

Drought-stricken Los Angeles is weighing new ways to crack down on residents who use more than their fair share of dwindling water supplies. For the first time in many years, such water hogs could be publicly named in an official version of the increasingly familiar and social-media-driven phenomenon of "drought shaming".

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