The rationing plan is intended to cut outdoor water use by 60 percent and indoor use by 10 percent.

The governor and the Republicans have negotiated a last-minute deal - expected to be enacted shortly - to stave off the rationing plan by allotting extra vouchers.

Under the rationing plan, agencies will have to pay triple the cost of water used in excess of the limits.

The public had watched skeptically last month after the city of Moscow announced a rationing plan to control food shortages, then dropped it.

The rationing plan was first announced May 18.

Based on the current rationing plan, each private car receives 120 liters per month at about 10 cents per liter.

The authors appear to support the "rationing" plan once its problems can be repaired.

Elsewhere in the state, Los Angeles has postponed a stricter rationing plan.

But its rationing plan could not pass political muster for these reasons: *The method of ranking 709 medical procedures was too rigid.

Baghdad scrapped the rationing plan five days after it was introduced.