Following Governor Jerry Brown's historic statewide mandatory water restrictions that call for a 25-percent reduction in water usage through February 2016, Badger Meter, a global manufacturer of flow measurement and control solutions, has released recommendations on the latest metering technologies for California municipalities, utilities and other water suppliers to start using in an effort to comply with state-mandated actions. As part of the new mandates, Section 17 specifically calls for the implementation of water-use monitoring and software technology.