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Dry California tourist town to guests: 'Please conserve'

by Olga R. Rodriguez & Haven Daley
| August 9, 2021 10:03 PM

MENDOCINO, Calif. (AP) — Tourists flock by the thousands to the coastal town of Mendocino for its Victorian homes and cliff trails, but visitors this summer are also finding public portable toilets and signs on picket fences pleading: “Severe Drought. Please conserve water."

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