Appeal-Democrat, Marysville (August 4, 2014) — Jay Lund is a professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis. Lund writes that the State Water Board's recent decision to outlaw some water-wasting activities under penalty of $500 fines helps alert urban residents and businesses to the seriousness of the drought. These water conservation actions, though, are fairly mild compared with the water rationing and other mandatory restrictions that Santa Cruz and a few other California communities have imposed this year.