California's water conservation targets have been revised, which is good news for many SoCal providers

Under standards posted Thursday afternoon, the water districts that provide water around California have new conservation targets. The revised standards follow news that the state narrowly missed Gov. Jerry Brown's conservation mandate of 25 percent over the nine months ending February 2016.

The conservation targets were revised as the Water Board considered information about climate, population and local water use submitted by districts. They're good news for districts such as the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the city of Long Beach, which conserved water over the past nine months but just barely missed their conservation targets.

In fact, in the South Coast region, which includes much of greater L.A. and San Diego, dozens of suppliers who missed their targets during the nine-month period would have met the new targets.

The comparisons are hypothetical, as mandatory conservation didn't kick in until June last year. The newly-announced targets apply to water use beginning on March 1 of this year, and they could revised again.

Still, the comparisons show many districts that could benefit from the changes.

Seventy-two districts that missed their target would have met their new standard, had it been in place. Forty-three of those were in the South Coast region; those are below.

You can look up water use over the past several months using KPCC's water use tool.