Rich Silverman has put his money where his mouth is when it comes to saving water. The Manteca City Councilman – who has helped oversee a cutback of just over 37 percent of the city’s municipal water supply when compared to 2014 – just recently had a landscaping firm remove more than 600 square-feet of grass from his Woodward Park home and replace it with a drought-resistant rock and bark setup that he believes will cut his own water bill by nearly 40 percent. And he hopes the move will show that some of Manteca’s leaders are doing their own part when it comes to navigating the most severe drought that California has seen in nearly four decades.
SAVING WATER
Silverman changes landscaping