FALLBROOK, Calif. -- Thanks to around-the-clock construction on a water treatment plant, North County water cutbacks have ended and officials say residents can return to normal watering routines.

San Diego County Water Authority spokesman John Liarakos said that the seven-day shutdown of water pipelines ended Saturday night, after crews completed work on the expansion of the R.A. Skinner Treatment Plant near Temecula four days earlier than originally planned.

"Everything is back to normal," Liarakos told the North County Times. He cautioned, though, that with 90 percent of the county's water imported, common sense and conservation should be a way of life in the region.

With the Metropolitan Water District's pipelines cut off for the past week and the weather unseasonably warm and dry, water agencies in Fallbrook, Rainbow, Valley Center and San Marcos which rely solely on imported drinking water faced shortages.