The Suffolk County Water Authority has extended its water emergency to the entirety of its customer base, stretching from the Nassau/Suffolk border and to Montauk.

The emergency to date had included just SCWA’s customers on the East End.

All customers are strongly urged to stop non-essential water uses and to stop watering their lawns between the hours of 12 a.m. and 7 a.m.  Officials say that is when water infrastructure is pushed to the limit by enormous numbers of irrigation timers set to the early morning hours.

The U.S. Drought Monitor continues to place all of Long Island in a condition of severe drought.