On Monday, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) released its water conservation numbers for January 2015, showing a 22 percent reduction since January 2007 — the year that the city’s water conservation ordinance was implemented — and a 15.8 percent reduction in water use since last year.

However, the city’s January 2015 conservation numbers did not hit the mark when compared to the California Water Resources Control Board’s 2013 baseline year, and the state is expected to credit the city with only 1.1 percent conservation when the statewide numbers are published this week.

“We are on track for a fourth dry year in this drought with the warmest winter for the last 120 years,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said. “This has direct and serious impacts to our water supply and the Eastern Sierra snowpack. I’m asking Angelenos to heed our call to reduce their water use by 20 percent by reducing sprinkler use, checking for leaks and removing your grass. Now is the time to do what we can to cut back even more and prevent a severe water shortage when summer comes around.”

“We spoke last week with many of the state’s major water agencies, and we are all facing the same dilemma in our January reporting — extremely low precipitation coupled with higher-than-normal temperatures,” said Marty Adams, DWP’s senior assistant general manager for the water system. “The good news is that we are still saving lots of water, but the numbers show that we are still too quick to return to old watering habits as soon as the weather gets nice. With the wet weather we have had, there is absolutely no reason for anyone to turn their automatic sprinklers back on. Don’t be a watering robot. If we don’t save water now and encourage our plants to develop stronger root systems, both our water supply and our landscapes will be at risk this summer.”

This month, DWP’s snow surveys were showing snowpack water content only at 18 percent of normal this time of year.

Similarly, the California Department of Water Resources announced that their surveys in the Sierras were only 25 percent of normal to date statewide.