AB 754: Water management planning: water shortages.
- Session Year: 2023-2024
- House: Assembly
- Latest Version Date: 2023-08-14
Current Status:
Failed
(2023-09-01: In committee: Held under submission.)
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First Chamber
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Second Chamber
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(1)Existing law, the Urban Water Management Planning Act, requires every public and private urban water supplier that directly or indirectly provides water for municipal purposes to prepare and adopt an urban water management plan. Existing law requires an urban water management plan to quantify past, current, and projected water use, identifying the uses among water use sectors, including, among others, commercial, agricultural, and industrial. Existing law requires every urban water supplier to prepare and adopt a water shortage contingency plan as part of its urban water management plan. Existing law requires the water shortage contingency plan to include the procedures for used in conducting an annual water supply and demand assessment, including the key data inputs and assessment methodology used to evaluate the urban water suppliers water supply reliability for the current year and one dry year. Existing law requires the key data inputs and assessment methodology to include specified information, including, among other things, a description and quantification of each source of water supply.
This bill would require a water shortage contingency plan to include, if if, based on a description and quantification of each source of water supply, a single reservoir constitutes at least 50% of the total water supply, an identification of the dam and description of existing reservoir management operations, as specified, and if the reservoir is owned and operated by the urban water supplier, a description of operational practices and approaches, as specified. The bill would require a water shortage contingency plan to include reservoir shortage levels relative to the target water supply storage curve that will trigger specified shortage response actions.
(2)Existing law requires an agricultural water supplier to prepare and adopt an agricultural water management plan with specified components and to update those plans on or before April 1 in the years ending in 6 and one. Existing law requires an agricultural water supplier to include develop a drought plan as part of its agricultural water management plan. Existing law requires the drought plan to describe the agricultural water suppliers actions relating to drought preparedness and management of water supplies and allocations during drought conditions, as provided. Existing law requires drought response planning to include, among other things, policies and a process for declaring a water shortage and for implementing water shortage allocations and related response actions.
This bill would require, if if, based on specified findings related to water supply, a single reservoir constitutes at least 50% of the total water supply, the policies for declaring a water shortage to consider specified certain information related to that reservoir.
(1)Existing law, the Urban Water Management Planning Act, requires every public and private urban water supplier that directly or indirectly provides water for municipal purposes to prepare and adopt an urban water management plan. Existing law requires an urban water management plan to quantify past, current, and projected water use, identifying the uses among water use sectors, including, among others, commercial, agricultural, and industrial. Existing law requires every urban water supplier to prepare and adopt a water shortage contingency plan as part of its urban water management plan. Existing law requires the water shortage contingency plan to include procedures for an annual water supply and demand assessment, including the data inputs and assessment methodology used to evaluate the urban water suppliers water supply reliability for the current year and one dry year. Existing law requires the key data inputs and assessment methodology to include specified information, including, among other things, a description and quantification of each source of water supply.
This bill would require a water shortage contingency plan to include a target water supply storage curve for a reservoir, if that reservoir constitutes at least 50% of the total water supply for the urban water supplier, based on target carryover levels sufficient to satisfy water users, ecological streamflow needs, and water quality needs, as specified. include, if based on a description and quantification of each source of water supply, a single reservoir constitutes at least 50% of the total water supply, an identification of the dam and description of existing reservoir management operations, as specified, and if the reservoir is owned and operated by the supplier, a description of operational practices and approaches, as specified. The bill would require a water shortage contingency plan to include reservoir shortage levels relative to the target water supply storage curve that will trigger specified shortage response actions.
(3)(2)Existing law requires an agricultural water supplier to prepare and adopt an agricultural water management plan with specified components and to update those plans on or before April 1 in the years ending in 6 and one. Existing law requires an agricultural water supplier to submit its plan to the Department of Water Resources no later than 30 days after the adoption of the plan and requires the department to review an agricultural water management plan and notify an agricultural water supplier if the department determines that it is noncompliant, as provided. Existing law requires an agricultural water supplier to submit copies of its plan to specified entities no later than 30 days after the departments review of the plan and requires the department to submit its report summarizing the status of the plans to the Legislature on or before April 30 in the years ending in 7 and 2. Existing law requires an agricultural water supplier to include a drought plan as part of its agricultural water management plan. Existing law requires the drought plan to describe the agricultural water suppliers actions relating to drought preparedness and management of water supplies and allocations during drought conditions, as provided. Existing law requires drought response planning to include, among other things, policies and a process for declaring a water shortage and for implementing water shortage allocations and related response actions.
This bill would require a drought plan to include a target water supply storage curve for a reservoir, if that reservoir constitutes at least 50% of the total water supply for the agricultural water supplier, based on target carryover levels sufficient to satisfy water users, ecological streamflow needs, and water quality needs, as specified. The bill would require the drought plan to include reservoir shortage levels relative to the target water supply storage curve that will trigger specified shortage response actions. require, if based on specified findings related to water supply, a single reservoir constitutes at least 50% of the total water supply, the policies for declaring a water shortage to consider specified information related to that reservoir.
(1)Existing law, the Urban Water Management Planning Act, requires every public and private urban water supplier that directly or indirectly provides water for municipal purposes to prepare and adopt an urban water management plan. Existing law requires an urban water management plan to quantify past, current, and projected water use, identifying the uses among water use sectors, including, among others, commercial, agricultural, and industrial. Existing law requires an urban water management plan to identify and quantify, to the extent practicable, the existing and planned sources of water available to the supplier over a specified period of time, providing supporting and related information, including, among other things, a description of the management of each supply in correlation with the other identified supplies when multiple sources of water supply are identified. Existing law requires an urban water management plan to include a narrative relating to water demand management measures implemented over the prior 5 years.
This bill would require an urban water management plan, if a reservoir is identified as an existing or planned source of water available to the supplier, to include specified information related to water storage and conservation, including, among other things, a target water supply storage curve, calculated based on target carryover levels of water sufficient to satisfy water users and streamflow requirements, as specified, and an automatic conservation plan that would be implemented when the reservoir storage level falls below the target water supply storage curve. The bill would require the automatic conservation plan to contain specified information related to water storage, including, among other things, reservoir storage levels relative to a target water supply storage curve that will trigger shortage response actions.This bill would require an urban water management plan to include in that narrative any demand management measures that have a significant impact on water used by downstream water rights holders.
(2)Existing law requires every urban water supplier to prepare and adopt a water shortage contingency plan as part of its urban water management plan. Existing law requires the water shortage contingency plan to include procedures for an annual water supply and demand assessment, including the data inputs and assessment methodology used to evaluate the urban water suppliers water supply reliability for the current year and one dry year.
This bill would require a water shortage contingency plan to include a target water supply storage curve for a reservoir, if that reservoir constitutes at least 50% of the total water supply for the urban water supplier, based on target carryover levels sufficient to satisfy water users, ecological streamflow needs, and water quality needs, as specified. The bill would require a water shortage contingency plan to include reservoir shortage levels relative to the target water supply storage curve that will trigger specified shortage response actions.
(2)(3)Existing law requires an agricultural water supplier to prepare and adopt an agricultural water management plan with specified components on or before December 31, 2012, and to update those plans on or before December 31, 2015, and on or before April 1, 2021, and thereafter on or before April 1 in the years ending in 6 and one. Existing law requires an agricultural water supplier to submit its plan to the Department of Water Resources no later than 30 days after the adoption of the plan and requires the department to review an agricultural water management plan and notify an agricultural water supplier if the department determines that it is noncompliant, as provided. Existing law requires an agricultural water supplier to submit copies of its plan to specified entities no later than 30 days after the departments review of the plan and requires the department to submit its report summarizing the status of the plans to the Legislature on or before April 30 in the years ending in 7 and 2. Existing law requires an agricultural water supplier to include a drought plan as part of its agricultural water management plan. Existing law requires the drought plan to describe the agricultural water suppliers actions relating to drought preparedness and management of water supplies and allocations during drought conditions, as provided.
This bill would additionally require an agricultural water management plan, if a reservoir is identified as an existing or planned source of water available to the supplier, to include specified information related to water storage and conservation, including, among other things, a target water supply storage curve, calculated as provided, and an automatic conservation plan that is implemented when the reservoir storage level falls below the target water supply storage curve. The bill would require the automatic conservation plan to contain specified information regarding, among other things, response actions to be taken when water storage falls to specified storage levels.This bill would require a drought plan to include a target water supply storage curve for a reservoir, if that reservoir constitutes at least 50% of the total water supply for the agricultural water supplier, based on target carryover levels sufficient to satisfy water users, ecological streamflow needs, and water quality needs, as specified. The bill would require the drought plan to include reservoir shortage levels relative to the target water supply storage curve that will trigger specified shortage response actions.
(1)Existing law, the Urban Water Management Planning Act, requires every public and private urban water supplier that directly or indirectly provides water for municipal purposes to prepare and adopt an urban water management plan. Existing law requires an urban water management plan to quantify past, current, and projected water use, identifying the uses among water use sectors, including, among others, commercial, agricultural, and industrial. Existing law requires an urban water management plan to identify and quantify, to the extent practicable, the existing and planned sources of water available to the supplier over a specified period of time, providing supporting and related information, including, among other things, a description of the management of each supply in correlation with the other identified supplies when multiple sources of water supply are identified.
This bill would additionally require an urban water management plan, if a reservoir is identified as an existing or planned source of water available to the supplier, to include specified information related to water storage and conservation, including, among other things, a target water supply storage curve, calculated as provided, based on target carryover levels of water sufficient to satisfy water users and streamflow requirements, as specified, and an automatic conservation plan that would be implemented when the reservoir storage level falls below the target water supply storage curve. The bill would require the automatic conservation plan to contain specified information regarding, among other things, response actions to be taken when water storage falls to specified storage levels. related to water storage, including, among other things, reservoir storage levels relative to a target water supply storage curve that will trigger shortage response actions.
(2)Existing law requires an agricultural water supplier to prepare and adopt an agricultural water management plan with specified components on or before December 31, 2012, and to update those plans on or before December 31, 2015, and on or before April 1, 2021, and thereafter on or before April 1 in the years ending in 6 and one. Existing law requires an agricultural water supplier to submit its plan to the Department of Water Resources no later than 30 days after the adoption of the plan and requires the department to review an agricultural water management plan and notify an agricultural water supplier if the department determines that it is noncompliant, as provided. Existing law requires an agricultural water supplier to submit copies of its plan to specified entities no later than 30 days after the departments review of the plan and requires the department to submit its report summarizing the status of the plans to the Legislature on or before April 30 in the years ending in 7 and 2.
This bill would additionally require an agricultural water management plan, if a reservoir is identified as an existing or planned source of water available to the supplier, to include specified information related to water storage and conservation, including, among other things, a target water supply storage curve, calculated as provided, and an automatic conservation plan that is implemented when the reservoir storage level falls below the target water supply storage curve. The bill would require the automatic conservation plan to contain specified information regarding, among other things, response actions to be taken when water storage falls to specified storage levels.
(1)Existing law, the Urban Water Management Planning Act, requires every public and private urban water supplier that directly or indirectly provides water for municipal purposes to prepare and adopt an urban water management plan. Existing law requires an urban water management plan to quantify past, current, and projected water use, identifying the uses among water use sectors, including, among others, commercial, agricultural, and industrial. Existing law requires an urban water management plan to identify and quantify, to the extent practicable, the existing and planned sources of water available to the supplier over a specified period of time, providing supporting and related information, including, among other things, a description of the management of each supply in correlation with the other identified supplies when multiple sources of water supply are identified.
This bill would additionally require an urban water management plan, if a reservoir is identified as an existing or planned source of water available to the supplier, to include specified information related to water storage and conservation, including, among other things, a target water supply storage curve, calculated as provided, and an automatic conservation plan that would be implemented when the reservoir storage level falls below the target water supply storage curve. The bill would require the automatic conservation plan to contain specified information regarding, among other things, response actions to be taken when water storage falls to specified storage levels.
(2)Existing law requires an agricultural water supplier to prepare and adopt an agricultural water management plan with specified components on or before December 31, 2012, and to update those plans on or before December 31, 2015, and on or before April 1, 2021, and thereafter on or before April 1 in the years ending in 6 and one. Existing law requires an agricultural water supplier to submit its plan to the Department of Water Resources no later than 30 days after the adoption of the plan and requires the department to review an agricultural water management plan and notify an agricultural water supplier if the department determines that it is noncompliant, as provided. Existing law requires an agricultural water supplier to submit copies of its plan to specified entities no later than 30 days after the departments review of the plan and requires the department to submit its report summarizing the status of the plans to the Legislature on or before April 30 in the years ending in 7 and 2.
This bill would additionally require an agricultural water management plan, if a reservoir is identified as an existing or planned source of water available to the supplier, to include specified information related to water storage and conservation, including, among other things, a target water supply storage curve, calculated as provided, and an automatic conservation plan that is implemented when the reservoir storage level falls below the target water supply storage curve. The bill would require the automatic conservation plan to contain specified information regarding, among other things, response actions to be taken when water storage falls to specified storage levels.
Existing law authorizes surface water to be leased for a period not to exceed 5 years to assist water conservation efforts pursuant to specified terms and conditions.This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in these provisions.Existing law authorizes surface water to be leased for a period not to exceed 5 years to assist water conservation efforts pursuant to specified terms and conditions.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in these provisions.
(a)Every urban water supplier shall prepare and adopt a water shortage contingency plan as part of its urban water management plan that consists of each of the following elements:
(1)The analysis of water supply reliability conducted pursuant to Section 10635.
(2)The procedures used in conducting an annual water supply and demand assessment that include, at a minimum, both of the following:
(A)The written decisionmaking process that an urban water supplier will use each year to determine its water supply reliability.
(B)The key data inputs and assessment methodology used to evaluate the urban water suppliers water supply reliability for the current year and one dry year, including all of the following:
(i)Current year unconstrained demand, considering weather, growth, and other influencing factors, such as policies to manage current supplies to meet demand objectives in future years, as applicable.
(ii)Current year available supply, considering hydrological and regulatory conditions in the current year and one dry year. The annual supply and demand assessment may consider more than one dry year solely at the discretion of the urban water supplier.
(iii)Existing infrastructure capabilities and plausible constraints.
(iv)A defined set of locally applicable evaluation criteria that are consistently relied upon for each annual water supply and demand assessment.
(v)(I)A description and quantification of each source of water supply.
(II)If, based on the description and quantification of each source of water supply pursuant to subclause (I), a single reservoir constitutes at least 50 percent of the total water supply, all of the following information:
(ia)An identification of the dam and description of existing reservoir management operations, including:
(Ia)The name of the reservoir.
(Ib)The name of the reservoir owner and operator.
(Ic)Total reservoir capacity.
(Id)The range of historic annual inflows into the reservoir.
(Ie)The range of historic annual outflows from the reservoir.
(If)The range of historic annual carryover volumes for the reservoir.
(Ig)The purposes for which the reservoir is operated, which may include, but are not limited to, water released for instream uses, water supplied for consumptive use, flood control, hydroelectric generation, and recreation.
(Ih)Existing regulatory requirements, including instream flow requirements downstream of the reservoir.
(Ii)A target water supply storage curve for that reservoir based on target carryover levels sufficient to satisfy water users and ecological streamflow needs pursuant to any applicable state, federal, or local regulations, and water quality needs pursuant to any state, federal, or local regulations for the current year and one dry year, with reasonably predicted inflow and outflow calculations considering the factors described in sub-sub-subclauses (Ia) though to (Ih), inclusive.
(Ij)Each month, the actual reservoir level shall be plotted against the target water supply storage curve on a calendar to compare actual reservoir levels with target reservoir levels. This analysis shall be included in the annual water supply and demand assessment as required by Section 10632.1.
(ib)If the reservoir is owned and operated by the supplier, a description of operational practices and approaches, including both of the following:
(Ia)Existing annual carryover targets and reservoir operations taken to achieve those targets under the range of historic hydrologic conditions described in this section.
(Ib)Potential actions that may be taken under a range of potential future hydrologic conditions considering climate change.
(3)(A)Six standard water shortage levels corresponding to progressive ranges of up to 10-, 20-, 30-, 40-, and 50-percent shortages, and greater than 50-percent shortage. Urban water suppliers shall define these shortage levels based on the suppliers water supply conditions, including percentage reductions in water supply, changes in groundwater levels, changes in surface elevation or level of subsidence, or other changes in hydrological or other local conditions indicative of the water supply available for use. Shortage levels shall also apply to catastrophic interruption of water supplies, including, but not limited to, a regional power outage, an earthquake, and other potential emergency events.
(B)An urban water supplier with an existing water shortage contingency plan that uses different water shortage levels may comply with the requirement in subparagraph (A) by developing and including a cross-reference relating its existing categories to the six standard water shortage levels.
(4)Shortage response actions that align with the defined shortage levels and include, at a minimum, all of the following:
(A)Locally appropriate supply augmentation actions.
(B)Locally appropriate demand reduction actions to adequately respond to shortages.
(C)Locally appropriate operational changes.
(D)Additional, mandatory prohibitions against specific water use practices that are in addition to state-mandated prohibitions and appropriate to the local conditions.
(E)For each action, an estimate of the extent to which the gap between supplies and demand will be reduced by implementation of the action.
(5)Communication protocols and procedures to inform customers, the public, interested parties, and local, regional, and state governments, regarding, at a minimum, all of the following:
(A)Any current or predicted shortages as determined by the annual water supply and demand assessment described pursuant to Section 10632.1.
(B)Any shortage response actions triggered or anticipated to be triggered by the annual water supply and demand assessment described pursuant to Section 10632.1.
(C)Any other relevant communications.
(6)For an urban retail water supplier, customer compliance, enforcement, appeal, and exemption procedures for triggered shortage response actions as determined pursuant to Section 10632.2.
(7)(A)A description of the legal authorities that empower the urban water supplier to implement and enforce its shortage response actions specified in paragraph (4) that may include, but are not limited to, statutory authorities, ordinances, resolutions, and contract provisions.
(B)A statement that an urban water supplier shall declare a water shortage emergency in accordance with Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 350) of Division 1.
(C)A statement that an urban water supplier shall coordinate with any city or county within which it provides water supply services for the possible proclamation of a local emergency, as defined in Section 8558 of the Government Code.
(8)A description of the financial consequences of, and responses for, drought conditions, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
(A)A description of potential revenue reductions and expense increases associated with activated shortage response actions described in paragraph (4).
(B)A description of mitigation actions needed to address revenue reductions and expense increases associated with activated shortage response actions described in paragraph (4).
(C)A description of the cost of compliance with Chapter 3.3 (commencing with Section 365) of Division 1.
(9)For an urban retail water supplier, monitoring and reporting requirements and procedures that ensure appropriate data is collected, tracked, and analyzed for purposes of monitoring customer compliance and to meet state reporting requirements.
(10)Reevaluation and improvement procedures for systematically monitoring and evaluating the functionality of the water shortage contingency plan in order to ensure shortage risk tolerance is adequate and appropriate water shortage mitigation strategies are implemented as needed.
(b)For purposes of developing the water shortage contingency plan pursuant to subdivision (a), an urban water supplier shall analyze and define water features that are artificially supplied with water, including ponds, lakes, waterfalls, and fountains, separately from swimming pools and spas, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 115921 of the Health and Safety Code.
(c)The urban water supplier shall make available the water shortage contingency plan prepared pursuant to this article to its customers and any city or county within which it provides water supplies no later than 30 days after adoption of the water shortage contingency plan.
SEC. 2.Section 10826.2 of the Water Code is amended to read:10826.2.As part of its agricultural water management plan, each agricultural water supplier shall develop a drought plan for periods of limited water supply describing the actions of the agricultural water supplier for drought preparedness and management of water supplies and allocations during drought conditions. The drought plan shall contain both of the following:
(a)Resilience planning, including all of the following:
(1)Data, indicators, and information needed to determine the water supply availability and levels of drought severity.
(2)Analyses and identification of potential vulnerability to drought.
(3)A description of the opportunities and constraints for improving drought resilience planning, including all of the following:
(A)The availability of new technology or information.
(B)The ability of the agricultural water supplier to obtain or use additional water supplies during drought conditions.
(C)A description of other actions planned for implementation to improve drought resilience.
(b)Drought response planning, including all of the following:
(1)Policies and a process for declaring a water shortage and for implementing water shortage allocations and related response actions.
(2)Methods and procedures for the enforcement or appeal of, or exemption from, triggered shortage response actions.
(3)Methods and procedures for monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of the drought plan.
(4)Communication protocols and procedures to inform and coordinate customers, the public, interested parties, and local, regional, and state government.
(5)A description of the potential impacts on the revenues, financial condition, and planned expenditures of the agricultural water supplier during drought conditions that reduce water allocations, and proposed measures to overcome those impacts, including reserve-level policies.
(c)If, based on the findings in subparagraphs paragraphs (1) through to (3), inclusive, of subdivision (b) of Section 10826 10826, a single reservoir constitutes at least 50 percent of the total water supply, the policies for declaring a water shortage pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) shall include consideration of all of the following information:
(1)An identification of the dam and description of existing reservoir management operations, including all of the following:
(A)The name of the reservoir.
(B)The name of the reservoir owner and operator.
(C)Total reservoir capacity.
(D)The range of historic annual inflows into the reservoir.
(E)The range of historic annual outflows from the reservoir.
(F)The range of historic annual carryover volumes for the reservoir.
(G)The purposes for which the reservoir is operated, which may include, but are not limited to, water released for instream uses, water supplied for consumptive use, flood control, hydroelectric generation, and recreation.
(H)Existing regulatory requirements, including instream flow requirements downstream of the reservoir.
(I)A target water supply storage curve for that reservoir based on target carryover levels sufficient to satisfy water users and ecological streamflow needs pursuant to any applicable state, federal, or local regulations, and water quality needs pursuant to any state, federal, or local regulations for the current year and one dry year, with reasonably predicted inflow and outflow calculations considering factors described in subparagraphs (A) through to (H), inclusive.
(J)Each month, the actual reservoir level shall be plotted against the target water supply storage curve on a calendar. This analysis shall be submitted every five years to the department in addition to the agricultural water management plan.
(2)If the reservoir is owned and operated by the supplier, a description of operational practices and approaches, including both of the following:
(A)Existing annual carryover targets and reservoir operations taken to achieve those targets under the range of historic hydrologic conditions described in this section.
(B)Potential actions that may be taken under a range of potential future hydrologic conditions considering climate change.
(a)Every urban water supplier shall prepare and adopt a water shortage contingency plan as part of its urban water management plan that consists of each of the following elements:
(1)The analysis of water supply reliability conducted pursuant to Section 10635.
(2)The procedures used in conducting an annual water supply and demand assessment that include, at a minimum, both of the following:
(A)The written decisionmaking process that an urban water supplier will use each year to determine its water supply reliability.
(B)The key data inputs and assessment methodology used to evaluate the urban water suppliers water supply reliability for the current year and one dry year, including all of the following:
(i)Current year unconstrained demand, considering weather, growth, and other influencing factors, such as policies to manage current supplies to meet demand objectives in future years, as applicable.
(ii)Current year available supply, considering hydrological and regulatory conditions in the current year and one dry year. The annual supply and demand assessment may consider more than one dry year solely at the discretion of the urban water supplier.
(iii)Existing infrastructure capabilities and plausible constraints.
(iv)A defined set of locally applicable evaluation criteria that are consistently relied upon for each annual water supply and demand assessment.
(v)(I)A description and quantification of each source of water supply.
(II)If a single reservoir constitutes at least 50 percent of the total water supply for the urban water supplier, the water shortage contingency plan shall include a target water supply storage curve for that reservoir based on target carryover levels sufficient to satisfy water users and ecological streamflow needs pursuant to any applicable state, federal, or local regulations, and water quality needs pursuant to any state, federal, or local regulations for the current year and one dry year, with reasonably predicted inflow calculations considering local conditions and climate change.(III)Each month, the actual reservoir level shall be plotted against the target water supply storage curve on a calendar to determine whether target storage levels are met.(II)If, based on the description and quantification of each source of water supply pursuant to subclause (I), a single reservoir constitutes at least 50 percent of the total water supply, all the following information:
(ia)An identification of the dam and description of existing reservoir management operations, including:
(Ia)The name of the reservoir.
(Ib)The name of the reservoir owner and operator.
(Ic)Total reservoir capacity.
(Id)The range of historic annual inflows into the reservoir.
(Ie)The range of historic annual outflows from the reservoir.
(If)The range of historic annual carryover volumes for the reservoir.
(Ig)The purposes for which the reservoir is operated, which may include, but are not limited to, water released for instream uses, water supplied for consumptive use, flood control, hydroelectric generation, and recreation.
(Ih)Existing regulatory requirements, including instream flow requirements downstream of the reservoir.
(Ii)A target water supply storage curve for that reservoir based on target carryover levels sufficient to satisfy water users and ecological streamflow needs pursuant to any applicable state, federal, or local regulations, and water quality needs pursuant to any state, federal, or local regulations for the current year and one dry year, with reasonably predicted inflow and outflow calculations considering the factors described in sub-sub-subclauses (Ia) though (Ih), inclusive.
(Ij)Each month, the actual reservoir level shall be plotted against the target water supply storage curve on a calendar to compare actual reservoir levels with target reservoir levels.
(ib)If the reservoir is owned and operated by the supplier, a description of operational practices and approaches, including both of the following:
(Ia)Existing annual carryover targets and reservoir operations taken to achieve those targets under the range of historic hydrologic conditions described in this section.
(Ib)Potential actions that may be taken under a range of potential future hydrologic conditions considering climate change.
(3)(A)(i)Six standard water shortage levels corresponding to progressive ranges of up to 10-, 20-, 30-, 40-, and 50-percent shortages, and greater than 50-percent shortage. Urban water suppliers shall define these shortage levels based on the suppliers water supply conditions, including percentage reductions in water supply, changes in groundwater levels, changes in surface elevation or level of subsidence, or other changes in hydrological or other local conditions indicative of the water supply available for use. Shortage levels shall also apply to catastrophic interruption of water supplies, including, but not limited to, a regional power outage, an earthquake, and other potential emergency events.
(ii)(B)An urban water supplier with an existing water shortage contingency plan that uses different water shortage levels may comply with the requirement in clause (i) subparagraph (A) by developing and including a cross-reference relating its existing categories to the six standard water shortage levels.
(B)If a target water supply storage curve is developed pursuant to clause (v) of subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2), six standard reservoir shortage levels corresponding to water levels below the target water supply storage curve in progressive ranges of up to 10-, 20-, 30-, 40-, and 50-percent shortages, and greater than 50-percent shortage. Urban water suppliers shall determine these shortage levels pursuant to subclause (III) of clause (v) of subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2). Reservoir shortage levels trigger shortage response actions that align with the defined shortage levels and include, at a minimum, subparagraphs (B), (D), and (E) of paragraph (4).(4)Shortage response actions that align with the defined shortage levels and include, at a minimum, all of the following:
(A)Locally appropriate supply augmentation actions.
(B)Locally appropriate demand reduction actions to adequately respond to shortages.
(C)Locally appropriate operational changes.
(D)Additional, mandatory prohibitions against specific water use practices that are in addition to state-mandated prohibitions and appropriate to the local conditions.
(E)For each action, an estimate of the extent to which the gap between supplies and demand will be reduced by implementation of the action.
(5)Communication protocols and procedures to inform customers, the public, interested parties, and local, regional, and state governments, regarding, at a minimum, all of the following:
(A)Any current or predicted shortages as determined by the annual water supply and demand assessment described pursuant to Section 10632.1.
(B)Any shortage response actions triggered or anticipated to be triggered by the annual water supply and demand assessment described pursuant to Section 10632.1.
(C)Any other relevant communications.
(6)For an urban retail water supplier, customer compliance, enforcement, appeal, and exemption procedures for triggered shortage response actions as determined pursuant to Section 10632.2.
(7)(A)A description of the legal authorities that empower the urban water supplier to implement and enforce its shortage response actions specified in paragraph (4) that may include, but are not limited to, statutory authorities, ordinances, resolutions, and contract provisions.
(B)A statement that an urban water supplier shall declare a water shortage emergency in accordance with Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 350) of Division 1.
(C)A statement that an urban water supplier shall coordinate with any city or county within which it provides water supply services for the possible proclamation of a local emergency, as defined in Section 8558 of the Government Code.
(8)A description of the financial consequences of, and responses for, drought conditions, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
(A)A description of potential revenue reductions and expense increases associated with activated shortage response actions described in paragraph (4).
(B)A description of mitigation actions needed to address revenue reductions and expense increases associated with activated shortage response actions described in paragraph (4).
(C)A description of the cost of compliance with Chapter 3.3 (commencing with Section 365) of Division 1.
(9)For an urban retail water supplier, monitoring and reporting requirements and procedures that ensure appropriate data is collected, tracked, and analyzed for purposes of monitoring customer compliance and to meet state reporting requirements.
(10)Reevaluation and improvement procedures for systematically monitoring and evaluating the functionality of the water shortage contingency plan in order to ensure shortage risk tolerance is adequate and appropriate water shortage mitigation strategies are implemented as needed.
(b)For purposes of developing the water shortage contingency plan pursuant to subdivision (a), an urban water supplier shall analyze and define water features that are artificially supplied with water, including ponds, lakes, waterfalls, and fountains, separately from swimming pools and spas, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 115921 of the Health and Safety Code.
(c)The urban water supplier shall make available the water shortage contingency plan prepared pursuant to this article to its customers and any city or county within which it provides water supplies no later than 30 days after adoption of the water shortage contingency plan.
SEC. 3.SEC. 2.Section 10826.2 of the Water Code is amended to read:10826.2.As part of its agricultural water management plan, each agricultural water supplier shall develop a drought plan for periods of limited water supply describing the actions of the agricultural water supplier for drought preparedness and management of water supplies and allocations during drought conditions. The drought plan shall contain both of the following:
(a)Resilience planning, including all of the following:
(1)Data, indicators, and information needed to determine the water supply availability and levels of drought severity.
(2)Analyses and identification of potential vulnerability to drought.
(3)A description of the opportunities and constraints for improving drought resilience planning, including all of the following:
(A)The availability of new technology or information.
(B)The ability of the agricultural water supplier to obtain or use additional water supplies during drought conditions.
(C)A description of other actions planned for implementation to improve drought resilience.
(b)Drought response planning, including all of the following:
(1)(A)Policies and a process for declaring a water shortage and for implementing water shortage allocations and related response actions.
(B)(i)If a single reservoir constitutes at least 50 percent of the total water supply for the agricultural water supplier, the drought plan shall include a target water supply storage curve for that reservoir based on target carryover levels sufficient to satisfy water users and ecological streamflow needs pursuant to any applicable state, federal, or local regulations, and water quality needs pursuant to any state, federal, or local regulations for the current year and one dry year, with reasonably predicted inflow calculations considering local conditions and climate change.(ii)Each month, the actual reservoir level shall be plotted against the target water supply storage curve on a calendar to determine whether target storage levels are met.(iii)The drought plan shall include six standard reservoir shortage levels corresponding to water levels below the target water supply storage curve in progressive ranges of up to 10-, 20-, 30-, 40-, and 50-percent shortages, and greater than 50-percent shortage.(iv)At each reservoir shortage level, an agricultural water supplier shall initiate response actions that align with the shortage level, including, at a minimum, both of the following:(I)Locally appropriate demand reduction actions to adequately respond to shortages.(II)Additional mandatory prohibitions against specific water use practices that are in addition to state-mandated prohibitions and appropriate to the local conditions.(v)For each response action, the agricultural water supplier shall prepare an estimate of the extent to which the gap between the target reservoir storage level and the actual reservoir storage level will be reduced by implementation of the action.(vi)For each response action, the agricultural water supplier shall prepare an estimate of impacts on other water resources, including any increase in groundwater extraction.(2)Methods and procedures for the enforcement or appeal of, or exemption from, triggered shortage response actions.
(3)Methods and procedures for monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of the drought plan.
(4)Communication protocols and procedures to inform and coordinate customers, the public, interested parties, and local, regional, and state government.
(5)A description of the potential impacts on the revenues, financial condition, and planned expenditures of the agricultural water supplier during drought conditions that reduce water allocations, and proposed measures to overcome those impacts, including reserve-level policies.
(c)If, based on the findings in subparagraphs (1) through (3), inclusive, of subdivision (b) of Section 10826 a single reservoir constitutes at least 50 percent of the total water supply, the policies for declaring a water shortage pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) shall include consideration of all the following information:
(1)An identification of the dam and description of existing reservoir management operations, including all of the following:
(A)The name of the reservoir.
(B)The name of the reservoir owner and operator.
(C)Total reservoir capacity.
(D)The range of historic annual inflows into the reservoir.
(E)The range of historic annual outflows from the reservoir.
(F)The range of historic annual carryover volumes for the reservoir.
(G)The purposes for which the reservoir is operated, which may include, but are not limited to, water released for instream uses, water supplied for consumptive use, flood control, hydroelectric generation, and recreation.
(H)Existing regulatory requirements, including instream flow requirements downstream of the reservoir.
(I)A target water supply storage curve for that reservoir based on target carryover levels sufficient to satisfy water users and ecological streamflow needs pursuant to any applicable state, federal, or local regulations, and water quality needs pursuant to any state, federal, or local regulations for the current year and one dry year, with reasonably predicted inflow and outflow calculations considering factors described in subparagraphs (A) through (H), inclusive.
(J)Each month, the actual reservoir level shall be plotted against the target water supply storage curve on a calendar.
(2)If the reservoir is owned and operated by the supplier, a description of operational practices and approaches, including both of the following:
(A)Existing annual carryover targets and reservoir operations taken to achieve those targets under the range of historic hydrologic conditions described in this section.
(B)Potential actions that may be taken under a range of potential future hydrologic conditions considering climate change.
A plan shall be adopted in accordance with this chapter that shall do all of the following:
(a)Describe the service area of the supplier, including current and projected population, climate, and other social, economic, and demographic factors affecting the suppliers water management planning. The projected population estimates shall be based upon data from the state, regional, or local service agency population projections within the service area of the urban water supplier and shall be in 5-year increments to 20 years or as far as data is available. The description shall include the current and projected land uses within the existing or anticipated service area affecting the suppliers water management planning. Urban water suppliers shall coordinate with local or regional land use authorities to determine the most appropriate land use information, including, where appropriate, land use information obtained from local or regional land use authorities, as developed pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 65300) of Chapter 3 of Division 1 of Title 7 of the Government Code.
(b)Identify and quantify, to the extent practicable, the existing and planned sources of water available to the supplier over the same five-year increments described in subdivision (a), providing supporting and related information, including all of the following:
(1)A detailed discussion of anticipated supply availability under a normal water year, single dry year, and droughts lasting at least five years, as well as more frequent and severe periods of drought, as described in the drought risk assessment. For each source of water supply, consider any information pertinent to the reliability analysis conducted pursuant to Section 10635, including changes in supply due to climate change.
(2)When multiple sources of water supply are identified, a description of the management of each supply in correlation with the other identified supplies.
(3)For any planned sources of water supply, a description of the measures that are being undertaken to acquire and develop those water supplies.
(4)If groundwater is identified as an existing or planned source of water available to the supplier, all of the following information:
(A)The current version of any groundwater sustainability plan or alternative adopted pursuant to Part 2.74 (commencing with Section 10720), any groundwater management plan adopted by the urban water supplier, including plans adopted pursuant to Part 2.75 (commencing with Section 10750), or any other specific authorization for groundwater management for basins underlying the urban water suppliers service area.
(B)A description of any groundwater basin or basins from which the urban water supplier pumps groundwater. For basins that a court or the board has adjudicated the rights to pump groundwater, a copy of the order or decree adopted by the court or the board and a description of the amount of groundwater the urban water supplier has the legal right to pump under the order or decree. For a basin that has not been adjudicated, information as to whether the department has identified the basin as a high- or medium-priority basin in the most current official departmental bulletin that characterizes the condition of the groundwater basin, and a detailed description of the efforts being undertaken by the urban water supplier to coordinate with groundwater sustainability agencies or groundwater management agencies listed in subdivision (c) of Section 10723 to maintain or achieve sustainable groundwater conditions in accordance with a groundwater sustainability plan or alternative adopted pursuant to Part 2.74 (commencing with Section 10720).
(C)A detailed description and analysis of the location, amount, and sufficiency of groundwater pumped by the urban water supplier for the past five years. The description and analysis shall be based on information that is reasonably available, including, but not limited to, historic use records.
(D)A detailed description and analysis of the amount and location of groundwater that is projected to be pumped by the urban water supplier. The description and analysis shall be based on information that is reasonably available, including, but not limited to, historic use records.
(5)If a reservoir is identified as an existing or planned source of water available to the supplier, all the following information:(A)(i)A target water supply storage curve based on target carryover levels sufficient to satisfy water users and streamflow requirements for at least five years, with reasonably predicted inflow calculations considering local conditions and climate change.(ii)The reservoir storage level shall be calculated each month based on reservoir capacity, projected inflows, evaporation, water demands from all users, and streamflow requirements. The reservoir storage level shall be plotted against the target water supply storage curve on a calendar to ensure that target storage levels are met.(B)An automatic conservation plan that is implemented when the reservoir storage level falls below the target water supply storage curve determined in subparagraph (A). When both an automatic conservation plan and a water shortage contingency plan pursuant to Section 10632 are in effect, the more restrictive of the two plans shall govern. An automatic conservation plan shall include all of the following:(i)Six standard water shortage levels corresponding to progressive ranges of up to 10-, 20-, 30-, 40-, and 50-percent shortages below the target water supply curve and greater than 50-percent shortage.(ii)At each water shortage level, urban water suppliers shall initiate conservation response actions that align with the defined shortage levels and include, at a minimum, all of the following:(I)Locally appropriate water supply augmentation actions.(II)Locally appropriate water demand reduction actions to adequately respond to shortages.(III)Locally appropriate operational changes.(IV)Mandatory prohibitions against specific water use practices that are in addition to state-mandated prohibitions and appropriate to the local conditions.(iii)For each action, an estimate of the extent that the gap between target reservoir storage level and the actual reservoir storage level will be reduced by implementation of the action.(iv)For each action, an estimate of impacts to other water resources, including any increase in groundwater extraction.(v)Water demand reduction actions shall be applied to all customer classes, and may include any of the following:(I)Water waste prevention ordinances.(II)Metering.(III)Conservation pricing.(IV)Public education and outreach.(V)Programs to assess and manage distribution system real loss.(VI)Water conservation program coordination and staffing support.(vi)Other demand management measures that have a significant impact on water use as measured in gallons per capita per day, including innovative measures, if implemented.(vii)Other demand management measures that have a significant impact on water used by downstream water rights holders.(c)Describe the opportunities for exchanges or transfers of water on a short-term or long-term basis.
(d)(1)For an urban retail water supplier, quantify, to the extent records are available, past and current water use, over the same five-year increments described in subdivision (a), and projected water use, based upon information developed pursuant to subdivision (a), identifying the uses among water use sectors, including, but not necessarily limited to, all of the following:
(A)Single-family residential.
(B)Multifamily.
(C)Commercial.
(D)Industrial.
(E)Institutional and governmental.
(F)Landscape.
(G)Sales to other agencies.
(H)Saline water intrusion barriers, groundwater recharge, or conjunctive use, or any combination thereof.
(I)Agricultural.
(J)Distribution system water loss.
(2)The water use projections shall be in the same five-year increments described in subdivision (a).
(3)(A)The distribution system water loss shall be quantified for each of the five years preceding the plan update, in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to Section 10608.34.
(B)The distribution system water loss quantification shall be reported in accordance with a worksheet approved or developed by the department through a public process. The water loss quantification worksheet shall be based on the water system balance methodology developed by the American Water Works Association.
(C)In the plan due July 1, 2021, and in each update thereafter, data shall be included to show whether the urban retail water supplier met the distribution loss standards enacted by the board pursuant to Section 10608.34.
(4)(A)Water use projections, where available, shall display and account for the water savings estimated to result from adopted codes, standards, ordinances, or transportation and land use plans identified by the urban water supplier, as applicable to the service area.
(B)To the extent that an urban water supplier reports the information described in subparagraph (A), an urban water supplier shall do both of the following:
(i)Provide citations of the various codes, standards, ordinances, or transportation and land use plans utilized in making the projections.
(ii)Indicate the extent that the water use projections consider savings from codes, standards, ordinances, or transportation and land use plans. Water use projections that do not account for these water savings shall be noted of that fact.
(e)Provide a description of the suppliers water demand management measures. This description shall include all of the following:
(1)(A)For an urban retail water supplier, as defined in Section 10608.12, a narrative description that addresses the nature and extent of each water demand management measure implemented over the past five years. The narrative shall describe the water demand management measures that the supplier plans to implement to achieve its water use targets pursuant to Section 10608.20.
(B)The narrative pursuant to this paragraph shall include descriptions of the following water demand management measures:
(i)Water waste prevention ordinances.
(ii)Metering.
(iii)Conservation pricing.
(iv)Public education and outreach.
(v)Programs to assess and manage distribution system real loss.
(vi)Water conservation program coordination and staffing support.
(vii)Other demand management measures that have a significant impact on water use as measured in gallons per capita per day, including innovative measures, if implemented.
(viii)Other demand management measures that have a significant impact on water used by downstream water rights holders.
(2)For an urban wholesale water supplier, as defined in Section 10608.12, a narrative description of the items in clauses (ii), (iv), (vi), and (vii) (vii), and (viii) of subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1), and a narrative description of its distribution system asset management and wholesale supplier assistance programs.
(f)Include a description of all water supply projects and water supply programs that may be undertaken by the urban water supplier to meet the total projected water use, as established pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 10635. The urban water supplier shall include a detailed description of expected future projects and programs that the urban water supplier may implement to increase the amount of the water supply available to the urban water supplier in normal and single-dry water years and for a period of drought lasting five consecutive water years. The description shall identify specific projects and include a description of the increase in water supply that is expected to be available from each project. The description shall include an estimate with regard to the implementation timeline for each project or program.
(g)Describe the opportunities for development of desalinated water, including, but not limited to, ocean water, brackish water, and groundwater, as a long-term supply.
(h)An urban water supplier that relies upon a wholesale agency for a source of water shall provide the wholesale agency with water use projections from that agency for that source of water in 5-year increments to 20 years or as far as data is available. The wholesale agency shall provide information to the urban water supplier for inclusion in the urban water suppliers plan that identifies and quantifies, to the extent practicable, the existing and planned sources of water as required by subdivision (b), available from the wholesale agency to the urban water supplier over the same five-year increments, and during various water-year types in accordance with subdivision (f). An urban water supplier may rely upon water supply information provided by the wholesale agency in fulfilling the plan informational requirements of subdivisions (b) and (f).
SEC. 3.Section 10826 of the Water Code is amended to read:10826.An agricultural water management plan shall be adopted in accordance with this chapter. The plan shall do all of the following:(a)Describe the agricultural water supplier and the service area, including all of the following:(1)Size of the service area.(2)Location of the service area and its water management facilities.(3)Terrain and soils.(4)Climate.(5)Operating rules and regulations.(6)Water delivery measurements or calculations.(7)Water rate schedules and billing.(8)Water shortage allocation policies.(b)Describe the quantity and quality of water resources of the agricultural water supplier, including all of the following:(1)Surface water supply.(2)Groundwater supply.(3)Other water supplies, including recycled water.(4)Source water quality monitoring practices.(5)Water uses within the agricultural water suppliers service area, including all of the following:(A)Agricultural.(B)Environmental.(C)Recreational.(D)Municipal and industrial.(E)Groundwater recharge, including estimated flows from deep percolation from irrigation and seepage.(c)Include an annual water budget based on the quantification of all inflow and outflow components for the service area of the agricultural water supplier. Components of inflow shall include surface inflow, groundwater pumping in the service area, and effective precipitation. Components of outflow shall include surface outflow, deep percolation, and evapotranspiration. An agricultural water supplier shall report the annual water budget on a water-year basis. The department shall provide tools and resources to assist agricultural water suppliers in developing and quantifying components necessary to develop a water budget.(d)Include an analysis, based on available information, of the effect of climate change on future water supplies.(e)Describe previous water management activities.(f)Identify water management objectives based on the water budget to improve water system efficiency or to meet other water management objectives. The agricultural water supplier shall identify, prioritize, and implement actions to reduce water loss, improve water system management, and meet other water management objectives identified in the plan.(g)Include in the plan information regarding efficient water management practices required pursuant to Section 10608.48.(h)Quantify the efficiency of agricultural water use within the service area of the agricultural water supplier using the appropriate method or methods from among the four water use efficiency quantification methods developed by the department in the May 8, 2012, report to the Legislature entitled A Proposed Methodology for Quantifying the Efficiency of Agricultural Water Use. The agricultural water supplier shall account for all water uses, including crop water use, agronomic water use, environmental water use, and recoverable surface flows.(i)If a reservoir is identified as an existing or planned source of water available to the supplier, all of the following information shall be contained in the plan:(1)(A)A target water supply storage curve based on target carryover levels sufficient to satisfy water users and streamflow requirements for at least five years, with reasonably predicted inflow calculations considering local conditions and climate change.(B)The reservoir storage level shall be calculated each month based on reservoir capacity, projected inflows, evaporation, water demands from all users, and streamflow requirements. The reservoir storage level shall be plotted against the target water supply storage curve on a calendar to ensure that target storage levels are being met.(2)An automatic conservation plan that is implemented when the reservoir storage level falls below the target water supply storage curve determined in subparagraph (A). When both an automatic conservation plan and a drought plan pursuant to Section 10826.2 are in effect, the more restrictive of the two plans shall govern. An automatic conservation plan shall include all of the following:(A)Six standard water shortage levels corresponding to progressive ranges of up to 10-, 20-, 30-, 40-, and 50-percent shortages below the target water supply curve and greater than 50-percent shortage.(B)At each water shortage level, agricultural water suppliers shall initiate conservation response actions that align with the defined shortage levels and include, at a minimum, all of the following:(i)Locally appropriate supply augmentation actions.(ii)Locally appropriate demand reduction actions to adequately respond to shortages.(iii)Locally appropriate operational changes.(iv)Additional, mandatory prohibitions against specific water use practices that are in addition to state-mandated prohibitions and appropriate to the local conditions.(C)For each action, an estimate of the extent that the gap between the target reservoir storage level and the actual reservoir storage level will be reduced by implementation of the action.(D)For each action, an estimate of impacts to other water resources, including any increase in groundwater extraction.SEC. 2.Section 10632 of the Water Code is amended to read:10632.(a)Every urban water supplier shall prepare and adopt a water shortage contingency plan as part of its urban water management plan that consists of each of the following elements:
(1)The analysis of water supply reliability conducted pursuant to Section 10635.
(2)The procedures used in conducting an annual water supply and demand assessment that include, at a minimum, both of the following:
(A)The written decisionmaking process that an urban water supplier will use each year to determine its water supply reliability.
(B)The key data inputs and assessment methodology used to evaluate the urban water suppliers water supply reliability for the current year and one dry year, including all of the following:
(i)Current year unconstrained demand, considering weather, growth, and other influencing factors, such as policies to manage current supplies to meet demand objectives in future years, as applicable.
(ii)Current year available supply, considering hydrological and regulatory conditions in the current year and one dry year. The annual supply and demand assessment may consider more than one dry year solely at the discretion of the urban water supplier.
(iii)Existing infrastructure capabilities and plausible constraints.
(iv)A defined set of locally applicable evaluation criteria that are consistently relied upon for each annual water supply and demand assessment.
(v)(I)A description and quantification of each source of water supply.
(II)If a single reservoir constitutes at least 50 percent of the total water supply for the urban water supplier, the water shortage contingency plan shall include a target water supply storage curve for that reservoir based on target carryover levels sufficient to satisfy water users and ecological streamflow needs pursuant to any applicable state, federal, or local regulations, and water quality needs pursuant to any state, federal, or local regulations for the current year and one dry year, with reasonably predicted inflow calculations considering local conditions and climate change.
(III)Each month, the actual reservoir level shall be plotted against the target water supply storage curve on a calendar to determine whether target storage levels are met.
(3)(A)(i)Six standard water shortage levels corresponding to progressive ranges of up to 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 percent shortages and greater than 50 percent 10-, 20-, 30-, 40-, and 50-percent shortages, and greater than 50-percent shortage. Urban water suppliers shall define these shortage levels based on the suppliers water supply conditions, including percentage reductions in water supply, changes in groundwater levels, changes in surface elevation or level of subsidence, or other changes in hydrological or other local conditions indicative of the water supply available for use. Shortage levels shall also apply to catastrophic interruption of water supplies, including, but not limited to, a regional power outage, an earthquake, and other potential emergency events.
(B)(ii)An urban water supplier with an existing water shortage contingency plan that uses different water shortage levels may comply with the requirement in subparagraph (A) clause (i) by developing and including a cross-reference relating its existing categories to the six standard water shortage levels.
(B)If a target water supply storage curve is developed pursuant to clause (v) of subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2), six standard reservoir shortage levels corresponding to water levels below the target water supply storage curve in progressive ranges of up to 10-, 20-, 30-, 40-, and 50-percent shortages, and greater than 50-percent shortage. Urban water suppliers shall determine these shortage levels pursuant to subclause (III) of clause (v) of subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2). Reservoir shortage levels trigger shortage response actions that align with the defined shortage levels and include, at a minimum, subparagraphs (B), (D), and (E) of paragraph (4).
(4)Shortage response actions that align with the defined shortage levels and include, at a minimum, all of the following:
(A)Locally appropriate supply augmentation actions.
(B)Locally appropriate demand reduction actions to adequately respond to shortages.
(C)Locally appropriate operational changes.
(D)Additional, mandatory prohibitions against specific water use practices that are in addition to state-mandated prohibitions and appropriate to the local conditions.
(E)For each action, an estimate of the extent to which the gap between supplies and demand will be reduced by implementation of the action.
(5)Communication protocols and procedures to inform customers, the public, interested parties, and local, regional, and state governments, regarding, at a minimum, all of the following:
(A)Any current or predicted shortages as determined by the annual water supply and demand assessment described pursuant to Section 10632.1.
(B)Any shortage response actions triggered or anticipated to be triggered by the annual water supply and demand assessment described pursuant to Section 10632.1.
(C)Any other relevant communications.
(6)For an urban retail water supplier, customer compliance, enforcement, appeal, and exemption procedures for triggered shortage response actions as determined pursuant to Section 10632.2.
(7)(A)A description of the legal authorities that empower the urban water supplier to implement and enforce its shortage response actions specified in paragraph (4) that may include, but are not limited to, statutory authorities, ordinances, resolutions, and contract provisions.
(B)A statement that an urban water supplier shall declare a water shortage emergency in accordance with Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 350) of Division 1.
(C)A statement that an urban water supplier shall coordinate with any city or county within which it provides water supply services for the possible proclamation of a local emergency, as defined in Section 8558 of the Government Code.
(8)A description of the financial consequences of, and responses for, drought conditions, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
(A)A description of potential revenue reductions and expense increases associated with activated shortage response actions described in paragraph (4).
(B)A description of mitigation actions needed to address revenue reductions and expense increases associated with activated shortage response actions described in paragraph (4).
(C)A description of the cost of compliance with Chapter 3.3 (commencing with Section 365) of Division 1.
(9)For an urban retail water supplier, monitoring and reporting requirements and procedures that ensure appropriate data is collected, tracked, and analyzed for purposes of monitoring customer compliance and to meet state reporting requirements.
(10)Reevaluation and improvement procedures for systematically monitoring and evaluating the functionality of the water shortage contingency plan in order to ensure shortage risk tolerance is adequate and appropriate water shortage mitigation strategies are implemented as needed.
(b)For purposes of developing the water shortage contingency plan pursuant to subdivision (a), an urban water supplier shall analyze and define water features that are artificially supplied with water, including ponds, lakes, waterfalls, and fountains, separately from swimming pools and spas, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 115921 of the Health and Safety Code.
(c)The urban water supplier shall make available the water shortage contingency plan prepared pursuant to this article to its customers and any city or county within which it provides water supplies no later than 30 days after adoption of the water shortage contingency plan.
SEC. 3.Section 10826.2 of the Water Code is amended to read:10826.2.As part of its agricultural water management plan, each agricultural water supplier shall develop a drought plan for periods of limited water supply describing the actions of the agricultural water supplier for drought preparedness and management of water supplies and allocations during drought conditions. The drought plan shall contain both of the following:
(a)Resilience planning, including all of the following:
(1)Data, indicators, and information needed to determine the water supply availability and levels of drought severity.
(2)Analyses and identification of potential vulnerability to drought.
(3)A description of the opportunities and constraints for improving drought resilience planning, including all of the following:
(A)The availability of new technology or information.
(B)The ability of the agricultural water supplier to obtain or use additional water supplies during drought conditions.
(C)A description of other actions planned for implementation to improve drought resilience.
(b)Drought response planning, including all of the following:
(1)(A)Policies and a process for declaring a water shortage and for implementing water shortage allocations and related response actions.
(B)(i)If a single reservoir constitutes at least 50 percent of the total water supply for the agricultural water supplier, the drought plan shall include a target water supply storage curve for that reservoir based on target carryover levels sufficient to satisfy water users and ecological streamflow needs pursuant to any applicable state, federal, or local regulations, and water quality needs pursuant to any state, federal, or local regulations for the current year and one dry year, with reasonably predicted inflow calculations considering local conditions and climate change.
(ii)Each month, the actual reservoir level shall be plotted against the target water supply storage curve on a calendar to determine whether target storage levels are met.
(iii)The drought plan shall include six standard reservoir shortage levels corresponding to water levels below the target water supply storage curve in progressive ranges of up to 10-, 20-, 30-, 40-, and 50-percent shortages, and greater than 50-percent shortage.
(iv)At each reservoir shortage level, an agricultural water supplier shall initiate response actions that align with the shortage level, including, at a minimum, both of the following:
(I)Locally appropriate demand reduction actions to adequately respond to shortages.
(II)Additional mandatory prohibitions against specific water use practices that are in addition to state-mandated prohibitions and appropriate to the local conditions.
(v)For each response action, the agricultural water supplier shall prepare an estimate of the extent to which the gap between the target reservoir storage level and the actual reservoir storage level will be reduced by implementation of the action.
(vi)For each response action, the agricultural water supplier shall prepare an estimate of impacts on other water resources, including any increase in groundwater extraction.
(2)Methods and procedures for the enforcement or appeal of, or exemption from, triggered shortage response actions.
(3)Methods and procedures for monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of the drought plan.
(4)Communication protocols and procedures to inform and coordinate customers, the public, interested parties, and local, regional, and state government.
(5)A description of the potential impacts on the revenues, financial condition, and planned expenditures of the agricultural water supplier during drought conditions that reduce water allocations, and proposed measures to overcome those impacts, including reserve-level policies.
(a)Every urban water supplier shall prepare and adopt an urban water management plan in the manner set forth in Article 3 (commencing with Section 10640).
(b)Every person that becomes an urban water supplier shall adopt an urban water management plan within one year after it has become an urban water supplier.
(c)An urban water supplier indirectly providing water shall not include planning elements in its water management plan as provided in Article 2 (commencing with Section 10630) that would be applicable to urban water suppliers or public agencies directly providing water, or to their customers, without the consent of those suppliers or public agencies.
(d)(1)An urban water supplier may satisfy the requirements of this part by participation in areawide, regional, watershed, or basinwide urban water management planning where those plans will reduce preparation costs and contribute to the achievement of conservation, efficient water use, and improved local drought resilience.
(2)Notwithstanding paragraph (1), each urban water supplier shall develop its own water shortage contingency plan and automatic conservation plan, but an urban water supplier may incorporate, collaborate, and otherwise share information with other urban water suppliers or other governing entities participating in an areawide, regional, watershed, or basinwide urban water management plan, an agricultural management plan, or groundwater sustainability plan development.
(3)Each urban water supplier shall coordinate the preparation of its plan with other appropriate agencies in the area, including other water suppliers that share a common source, water management agencies, and relevant public agencies, to the extent practicable.
(e)The urban water supplier may prepare the plan with its own staff, by contract, or in cooperation with other governmental agencies.
(f)An urban water supplier shall describe in the plan water management tools and options used by that entity that will maximize resources and minimize the need to import water from other regions.
SEC. 2.Section 10631 of the Water Code is amended to read:10631.A plan shall be adopted in accordance with this chapter that shall do all of the following:
(a)Describe the service area of the supplier, including current and projected population, climate, and other social, economic, and demographic factors affecting the suppliers water management planning. The projected population estimates shall be based upon data from the state, regional, or local service agency population projections within the service area of the urban water supplier and shall be in five-year 5-year increments to 20 years or as far as data is available. The description shall include the current and projected land uses within the existing or anticipated service area affecting the suppliers water management planning. Urban water suppliers shall coordinate with local or regional land use authorities to determine the most appropriate land use information, including, where appropriate, land use information obtained from local or regional land use authorities, as developed pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 65300) of Chapter 3 of Division 1 of Title 7 of the Government Code.
(b)Identify and quantify, to the extent practicable, the existing and planned sources of water available to the supplier over the same five-year increments described in subdivision (a), providing supporting and related information, including all of the following:
(1)A detailed discussion of anticipated supply availability under a normal water year, single dry year, and droughts lasting at least five years, as well as more frequent and severe periods of drought, as described in the drought risk assessment. For each source of water supply, consider any information pertinent to the reliability analysis conducted pursuant to Section 10635, including changes in supply due to climate change.
(2)When multiple sources of water supply are identified, a description of the management of each supply in correlation with the other identified supplies.
(3)For any planned sources of water supply, a description of the measures that are being undertaken to acquire and develop those water supplies.
(4)If groundwater is identified as an existing or planned source of water available to the supplier, all of the following information:
(A)The current version of any groundwater sustainability plan or alternative adopted pursuant to Part 2.74 (commencing with Section 10720), any groundwater management plan adopted by the urban water supplier, including plans adopted pursuant to Part 2.75 (commencing with Section 10750), or any other specific authorization for groundwater management for basins underlying the urban water suppliers service area.
(B)A description of any groundwater basin or basins from which the urban water supplier pumps groundwater. For basins that a court or the board has adjudicated the rights to pump groundwater, a copy of the order or decree adopted by the court or the board and a description of the amount of groundwater the urban water supplier has the legal right to pump under the order or decree. For a basin that has not been adjudicated, information as to whether the department has identified the basin as a high- or medium-priority basin in the most current official departmental bulletin that characterizes the condition of the groundwater basin, and a detailed description of the efforts being undertaken by the urban water supplier to coordinate with groundwater sustainability agencies or groundwater management agencies listed in subdivision (c) of Section 10723 to maintain or achieve sustainable groundwater conditions in accordance with a groundwater sustainability plan or alternative adopted pursuant to Part 2.74 (commencing with Section 10720).
(C)A detailed description and analysis of the location, amount, and sufficiency of groundwater pumped by the urban water supplier for the past five years. The description and analysis shall be based on information that is reasonably available, including, but not limited to, historic use records.
(D)A detailed description and analysis of the amount and location of groundwater that is projected to be pumped by the urban water supplier. The description and analysis shall be based on information that is reasonably available, including, but not limited to, historic use records.
(5)If a reservoir is identified as an existing or planned source of water available to the supplier, all the following information:
(A)(i)A target water supply storage curve based on target carryover levels sufficient to satisfy water users and ecological stream flow needs streamflow requirements for at least five years, with reasonably predicted inflow calculations considering local conditions and climate change.
(ii)The reservoir storage level shall be calculated each month based on reservoir capacity, projected inflows, evaporation, water demands from all users, and streamflow requirements. The reservoir storage level shall be plotted against the target water supply storage curve on a calendar to ensure that target storage levels are met.
(B)An automatic conservation plan that is implemented when the reservoir storage level falls below the target water supply storage curve determined in subparagraph (A). When both an automatic conservation plan and a water shortage contingency plan pursuant to Section 10632 are in effect, the more restrictive of the two plans shall govern. An automatic conservation plan shall include all of the following:
(i)Six standard water shortage levels corresponding to progressive ranges of up to 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 percent 10-, 20-, 30-, 40-, and 50-percent shortages below the target water supply curve and greater than 50 percent 50-percent shortage.
(ii)At each water shortage level, urban water suppliers shall initiate conservation response actions that align with the defined shortage levels and include, at a minimum, all of the following:
(I)Locally appropriate water supply augmentation actions.
(II)Locally appropriate water demand reduction actions to adequately respond to shortages.
(III)Locally appropriate operational changes.
(IV)Mandatory prohibitions against specific water use practices that are in addition to state-mandated prohibitions and appropriate to the local conditions.
(iii)For each action, an estimate of the extent that the gap between target reservoir storage level and the actual reservoir storage level will be reduced by implementation of the action.
(iv)For each action, an estimate of impacts to other water resources, including any increase in groundwater extraction.
(v)Water demand reduction actions shall be applied to all customer classes, and may include any of the following:
(I)Water waste prevention ordinances.
(II)Metering.
(III)Conservation pricing.
(IV)Public education and outreach.
(V)Programs to assess and manage distribution system real loss.
(VI)Water conservation program coordination and staffing support.
(vi)Other demand management measures that have a significant impact on water use as measured in gallons per capita per day, including innovative measures, if implemented.
(vii)Other demand management measures that have a significant impact on water used by downstream water rights holders.
(c)Describe the opportunities for exchanges or transfers of water on a short-term or long-term basis.
(d)(1)For an urban retail water supplier, quantify, to the extent records are available, past and current water use, over the same five-year increments described in subdivision (a), and projected water use, based upon information developed pursuant to subdivision (a), identifying the uses among water use sectors, including, but not necessarily limited to, all of the following:
(A)Single-family residential.
(B)Multifamily.
(C)Commercial.
(D)Industrial.
(E)Institutional and governmental.
(F)Landscape.
(G)Sales to other agencies.
(H)Saline water intrusion barriers, groundwater recharge, or conjunctive use, or any combination thereof.
(I)Agricultural.
(J)Distribution system water loss.
(2)The water use projections shall be in the same five-year increments described in subdivision (a).
(3)(A)The distribution system water loss shall be quantified for each of the five years preceding the plan update, in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to Section 10608.34.
(B)The distribution system water loss quantification shall be reported in accordance with a worksheet approved or developed by the department through a public process. The water loss quantification worksheet shall be based on the water system balance methodology developed by the American Water Works Association.
(C)In the plan due July 1, 2021, and in each update thereafter, data shall be included to show whether the urban retail water supplier met the distribution loss standards enacted by the board pursuant to Section 10608.34.
(4)(A)Water use projections, where available, shall display and account for the water savings estimated to result from adopted codes, standards, ordinances, or transportation and land use plans identified by the urban water supplier, as applicable to the service area.
(B)To the extent that an urban water supplier reports the information described in subparagraph (A), an urban water supplier shall do both of the following:
(i)Provide citations of the various codes, standards, ordinances, or transportation and land use plans utilized in making the projections.
(ii)Indicate the extent that the water use projections consider savings from codes, standards, ordinances, or transportation and land use plans. Water use projections that do not account for these water savings shall be noted of that fact.
(e)Provide a description of the suppliers water demand management measures. This description shall include all of the following:
(1)(A)For an urban retail water supplier, as defined in Section 10608.12, a narrative description that addresses the nature and extent of each water demand management measure implemented over the past five years. The narrative shall describe the water demand management measures that the supplier plans to implement to achieve its water use targets pursuant to Section 10608.20.
(B)The narrative pursuant to this paragraph shall include descriptions of the following water demand management measures:
(i)Water waste prevention ordinances.
(ii)Metering.
(iii)Conservation pricing.
(iv)Public education and outreach.
(v)Programs to assess and manage distribution system real loss.
(vi)Water conservation program coordination and staffing support.
(vii)Other demand management measures that have a significant impact on water use as measured in gallons per capita per day, including innovative measures, if implemented.
(2)For an urban wholesale water supplier, as defined in Section 10608.12, a narrative description of the items in clauses (ii), (iv), (vi), and (vii) of subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1), and a narrative description of its distribution system asset management and wholesale supplier assistance programs.
(f)Include a description of all water supply projects and water supply programs that may be undertaken by the urban water supplier to meet the total projected water use, as established pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 10635. The urban water supplier shall include a detailed description of expected future projects and programs that the urban water supplier may implement to increase the amount of the water supply available to the urban water supplier in normal and single-dry water years and for a period of drought lasting five consecutive water years. The description shall identify specific projects and include a description of the increase in water supply that is expected to be available from each project. The description shall include an estimate with regard to the implementation timeline for each project or program.
(g)Describe the opportunities for development of desalinated water, including, but not limited to, ocean water, brackish water, and groundwater, as a long-term supply.
(h)An urban water supplier that relies upon a wholesale agency for a source of water shall provide the wholesale agency with water use projections from that agency for that source of water in five-year 5-year increments to 20 years or as far as data is available. The wholesale agency shall provide information to the urban water supplier for inclusion in the urban water suppliers plan that identifies and quantifies, to the extent practicable, the existing and planned sources of water as required by subdivision (b), available from the wholesale agency to the urban water supplier over the same five-year increments, and during various water-year types in accordance with subdivision (f). An urban water supplier may rely upon water supply information provided by the wholesale agency in fulfilling the plan informational requirements of subdivisions (b) and (f).
SEC. 3.Section 10826 of the Water Code is amended to read:10826.An agricultural water management plan shall be adopted in accordance with this chapter. The plan shall do all of the following:
(a)Describe the agricultural water supplier and the service area, including all of the following:
(1)Size of the service area.
(2)Location of the service area and its water management facilities.
(3)Terrain and soils.
(4)Climate.
(5)Operating rules and regulations.
(6)Water delivery measurements or calculations.
(7)Water rate schedules and billing.
(8)Water shortage allocation policies.
(b)Describe the quantity and quality of water resources of the agricultural water supplier, including all of the following:
(1)Surface water supply.
(2)Groundwater supply.
(3)Other water supplies, including recycled water.
(4)Source water quality monitoring practices.
(5)Water uses within the agricultural water suppliers service area, including all of the following:
(A)Agricultural.
(B)Environmental.
(C)Recreational.
(D)Municipal and industrial.
(E)Groundwater recharge, including estimated flows from deep percolation from irrigation and seepage.
(c)Include an annual water budget based on the quantification of all inflow and outflow components for the service area of the agricultural water supplier. Components of inflow shall include surface inflow, groundwater pumping in the service area, and effective precipitation. Components of outflow shall include surface outflow, deep percolation, and evapotranspiration. An agricultural water supplier shall report the annual water budget on a water-year basis. The department shall provide tools and resources to assist agricultural water suppliers in developing and quantifying components necessary to develop a water budget.
(d)Include an analysis, based on available information, of the effect of climate change on future water supplies.
(e)Describe previous water management activities.
(f)Identify water management objectives based on the water budget to improve water system efficiency or to meet other water management objectives. The agricultural water supplier shall identify, prioritize, and implement actions to reduce water loss, improve water system management, and meet other water management objectives identified in the plan.
(g)Include in the plan information regarding efficient water management practices required pursuant to Section 10608.48.
(h)Quantify the efficiency of agricultural water use within the service area of the agricultural water supplier using the appropriate method or methods from among the four water use efficiency quantification methods developed by the department in the May 8, 2012, report to the Legislature entitled A Proposed Methodology for Quantifying the Efficiency of Agricultural Water Use. The agricultural water supplier shall account for all water uses, including crop water use, agronomic water use, environmental water use, and recoverable surface flows.
(i)If a reservoir is identified as an existing or planned source of water available to the supplier, all of the following information shall be contained in the plan:
(1)(A)A target water supply storage curve based on target carryover levels sufficient to satisfy water users and ecological stream flow needs streamflow requirements for at least five years, with reasonably predicted inflow calculations considering local conditions and climate change.
(B)The reservoir storage level shall be calculated each month based on reservoir capacity, projected inflows, evaporation, water demands from all users, and streamflow requirements. The reservoir storage level shall be plotted against the target water supply storage curve on a calendar to ensure that target storage levels are being met.
(2)An automatic conservation plan that is implemented when the reservoir storage level falls below the target water supply storage curve determined in subparagraph (A). When both an automatic conservation plan and a drought plan pursuant to Section 10826.2 are in effect, the more restrictive of the two plans shall govern. An automatic conservation plan shall include all of the following:
(A)Six standard water shortage levels corresponding to progressive ranges of up to 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 percent 10-, 20-, 30-, 40-, and 50-percent shortages below the target water supply curve and greater than 50 percent 50-percent shortage.
(B)At each water shortage level, agricultural water suppliers shall initiate conservation response actions that align with the defined shortage levels and include, at a minimum, all of the following:
(i)Locally appropriate supply augmentation actions.
(ii)Locally appropriate demand reduction actions to adequately respond to shortages.
(iii)Locally appropriate operational changes.
(iv)Additional, mandatory prohibitions against specific water use practices that are in addition to state-mandated prohibitions and appropriate to the local conditions.
(C)For each action, an estimate of the extent that the gap between the target reservoir storage level and the actual reservoir storage level will be reduced by implementation of the action.
(D)For each action, an estimate of impacts to other water resources, including any increase in groundwater extraction.
(a)Every urban water supplier shall prepare and adopt an urban water management plan in the manner set forth in Article 3 (commencing with Section 10640).
(b)Every person that becomes an urban water supplier shall adopt an urban water management plan within one year after it has become an urban water supplier.
(c)An urban water supplier indirectly providing water shall not include planning elements in its water management plan as provided in Article 2 (commencing with Section 10630) that would be applicable to urban water suppliers or public agencies directly providing water, or to their customers, without the consent of those suppliers or public agencies.
(d)(1)An urban water supplier may satisfy the requirements of this part by participation in areawide, regional, watershed, or basinwide urban water management planning where those plans will reduce preparation costs and contribute to the achievement of conservation, efficient water use, and improved local drought resilience.
(2)Notwithstanding paragraph (1), each urban water supplier shall develop its own water shortage contingency plan, plan and automatic conservation plan, but an urban water supplier may incorporate, collaborate, and otherwise share information with other urban water suppliers or other governing entities participating in an areawide, regional, watershed, or basinwide urban water management plan, an agricultural management plan, or groundwater sustainability plan development.
(3)Each urban water supplier shall coordinate the preparation of its plan with other appropriate agencies in the area, including other water suppliers that share a common source, water management agencies, and relevant public agencies, to the extent practicable.
(e)The urban water supplier may prepare the plan with its own staff, by contract, or in cooperation with other governmental agencies.
(f)An urban water supplier shall describe in the plan water management tools and options used by that entity that will maximize resources and minimize the need to import water from other regions.
SEC. 2.Section 10631 of the Water Code is amended to read:10631.A plan shall be adopted in accordance with this chapter that shall do all of the following:
(a)Describe the service area of the supplier, including current and projected population, climate, and other social, economic, and demographic factors affecting the suppliers water management planning. The projected population estimates shall be based upon data from the state, regional, or local service agency population projections within the service area of the urban water supplier and shall be in five-year increments to 20 years or as far as data is available. The description shall include the current and projected land uses within the existing or anticipated service area affecting the suppliers water management planning. Urban water suppliers shall coordinate with local or regional land use authorities to determine the most appropriate land use information, including, where appropriate, land use information obtained from local or regional land use authorities, as developed pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 65300) of Chapter 3 of Division 1 of Title 7 of the Government Code.
(b)Identify and quantify, to the extent practicable, the existing and planned sources of water available to the supplier over the same five-year increments described in subdivision (a), providing supporting and related information, including all of the following:
(1)A detailed discussion of anticipated supply availability under a normal water year, single dry year, and droughts lasting at least five years, as well as more frequent and severe periods of drought, as described in the drought risk assessment. For each source of water supply, consider any information pertinent to the reliability analysis conducted pursuant to Section 10635, including changes in supply due to climate change.
(2)When multiple sources of water supply are identified, a description of the management of each supply in correlation with the other identified supplies.
(3)For any planned sources of water supply, a description of the measures that are being undertaken to acquire and develop those water supplies.
(4)If groundwater is identified as an existing or planned source of water available to the supplier, all of the following information:
(A)The current version of any groundwater sustainability plan or alternative adopted pursuant to Part 2.74 (commencing with Section 10720), any groundwater management plan adopted by the urban water supplier, including plans adopted pursuant to Part 2.75 (commencing with Section 10750), or any other specific authorization for groundwater management for basins underlying the urban water suppliers service area.
(B)A description of any groundwater basin or basins from which the urban water supplier pumps groundwater. For basins that a court or the board has adjudicated the rights to pump groundwater, a copy of the order or decree adopted by the court or the board and a description of the amount of groundwater the urban water supplier has the legal right to pump under the order or decree. For a basin that has not been adjudicated, information as to whether the department has identified the basin as a high- or medium-priority basin in the most current official departmental bulletin that characterizes the condition of the groundwater basin, and a detailed description of the efforts being undertaken by the urban water supplier to coordinate with groundwater sustainability agencies or groundwater management agencies listed in subdivision (c) of Section 10723 to maintain or achieve sustainable groundwater conditions in accordance with a groundwater sustainability plan or alternative adopted pursuant to Part 2.74 (commencing with Section 10720).
(C)A detailed description and analysis of the location, amount, and sufficiency of groundwater pumped by the urban water supplier for the past five years. The description and analysis shall be based on information that is reasonably available, including, but not limited to, historic use records.
(D)A detailed description and analysis of the amount and location of groundwater that is projected to be pumped by the urban water supplier. The description and analysis shall be based on information that is reasonably available, including, but not limited to, historic use records.
(5)If a reservoir is identified as an existing or planned source of water available to the supplier, all the following information:
(A)(i)A target water supply storage curve based on target carryover levels sufficient to satisfy water users and ecological stream flow needs for at least five years, with reasonably predicted inflow calculations considering local conditions and climate change.
(ii)The reservoir storage level shall be calculated each month based on reservoir capacity, projected inflows, evaporation, water demands from all users, and streamflow requirements. The reservoir storage level shall be plotted against the target water supply storage curve on a calendar to ensure that target storage levels are met.
(B)An automatic conservation plan that is implemented when the reservoir storage level falls below the target water supply storage curve determined in subparagraph (A). When both an automatic conservation plan and a water shortage contingency plan pursuant to Section 10632 are in effect, the more restrictive of the two plans shall govern. An automatic conservation plan shall include all of the following:
(i)Six standard water shortage levels corresponding to progressive ranges of up to 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 percent shortages below the target water supply curve and greater than 50 percent shortage.
(ii)At each water shortage level, urban water suppliers shall initiate conservation response actions that align with the defined shortage levels and include, at a minimum, all of the following:
(I)Locally appropriate water supply augmentation actions.
(II)Locally appropriate water demand reduction actions to adequately respond to shortages.
(III)Locally appropriate operational changes.
(IV)Mandatory prohibitions against specific water use practices that are in addition to state-mandated prohibitions and appropriate to the local conditions.
(iii)For each action, an estimate of the extent that the gap between target reservoir storage level and the actual reservoir storage level will be reduced by implementation of the action.
(iv)For each action, an estimate of impacts to other water resources, including any increase in groundwater extraction.
(v)Water demand reduction actions shall be applied to all customer classes, and may include any of the following:
(I)Water waste prevention ordinances.
(II)Metering.
(III)Conservation pricing.
(IV)Public education and outreach.
(V)Programs to assess and manage distribution system real loss.
(VI)Water conservation program coordination and staffing support.
(vi)Other demand management measures that have a significant impact on water use as measured in gallons per capita per day, including innovative measures, if implemented.
(vii)Other demand management measures that have a significant impact on water used by downstream water rights holders.
(c)Describe the opportunities for exchanges or transfers of water on a short-term or long-term basis.
(d)(1)For an urban retail water supplier, quantify, to the extent records are available, past and current water use, over the same five-year increments described in subdivision (a), and projected water use, based upon information developed pursuant to subdivision (a), identifying the uses among water use sectors, including, but not necessarily limited to, all of the following:
(A)Single-family residential.
(B)Multifamily.
(C)Commercial.
(D)Industrial.
(E)Institutional and governmental.
(F)Landscape.
(G)Sales to other agencies.
(H)Saline water intrusion barriers, groundwater recharge, or conjunctive use, or any combination thereof.
(I)Agricultural.
(J)Distribution system water loss.
(2)The water use projections shall be in the same five-year increments described in subdivision (a).
(3)(A)The distribution system water loss shall be quantified for each of the five years preceding the plan update, in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to Section 10608.34.
(B)The distribution system water loss quantification shall be reported in accordance with a worksheet approved or developed by the department through a public process. The water loss quantification worksheet shall be based on the water system balance methodology developed by the American Water Works Association.
(C)In the plan due July 1, 2021, and in each update thereafter, data shall be included to show whether the urban retail water supplier met the distribution loss standards enacted by the board pursuant to Section 10608.34.
(4)(A)Water use projections, where available, shall display and account for the water savings estimated to result from adopted codes, standards, ordinances, or transportation and land use plans identified by the urban water supplier, as applicable to the service area.
(B)To the extent that an urban water supplier reports the information described in subparagraph (A), an urban water supplier shall do both of the following:
(i)Provide citations of the various codes, standards, ordinances, or transportation and land use plans utilized in making the projections.
(ii)Indicate the extent that the water use projections consider savings from codes, standards, ordinances, or transportation and land use plans. Water use projections that do not account for these water savings shall be noted of that fact.
(e)Provide a description of the suppliers water demand management measures. This description shall include all of the following:
(1)(A)For an urban retail water supplier, as defined in Section 10608.12, a narrative description that addresses the nature and extent of each water demand management measure implemented over the past five years. The narrative shall describe the water demand management measures that the supplier plans to implement to achieve its water use targets pursuant to Section 10608.20.
(B)The narrative pursuant to this paragraph shall include descriptions of the following water demand management measures:
(i)Water waste prevention ordinances.
(ii)Metering.
(iii)Conservation pricing.
(iv)Public education and outreach.
(v)Programs to assess and manage distribution system real loss.
(vi)Water conservation program coordination and staffing support.
(vii)Other demand management measures that have a significant impact on water use as measured in gallons per capita per day, including innovative measures, if implemented.
(2)For an urban wholesale water supplier, as defined in Section 10608.12, a narrative description of the items in clauses (ii), (iv), (vi), and (vii) of subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1), and a narrative description of its distribution system asset management and wholesale supplier assistance programs.
(f)Include a description of all water supply projects and water supply programs that may be undertaken by the urban water supplier to meet the total projected water use, as established pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 10635. The urban water supplier shall include a detailed description of expected future projects and programs that the urban water supplier may implement to increase the amount of the water supply available to the urban water supplier in normal and single-dry water years and for a period of drought lasting five consecutive water years. The description shall identify specific projects and include a description of the increase in water supply that is expected to be available from each project. The description shall include an estimate with regard to the implementation timeline for each project or program.
(g)Describe the opportunities for development of desalinated water, including, but not limited to, ocean water, brackish water, and groundwater, as a long-term supply.
(h)An urban water supplier that relies upon a wholesale agency for a source of water shall provide the wholesale agency with water use projections from that agency for that source of water in five-year increments to 20 years or as far as data is available. The wholesale agency shall provide information to the urban water supplier for inclusion in the urban water suppliers plan that identifies and quantifies, to the extent practicable, the existing and planned sources of water as required by subdivision (b), available from the wholesale agency to the urban water supplier over the same five-year increments, and during various water-year types in accordance with subdivision (f). An urban water supplier may rely upon water supply information provided by the wholesale agency in fulfilling the plan informational requirements of subdivisions (b) and (f).
SEC. 3.Section 10826 of the Water Code is amended to read:10826.An agricultural water management plan shall be adopted in accordance with this chapter. The plan shall do all of the following:
(a)Describe the agricultural water supplier and the service area, including all of the following:
(1)Size of the service area.
(2)Location of the service area and its water management facilities.
(3)Terrain and soils.
(4)Climate.
(5)Operating rules and regulations.
(6)Water delivery measurements or calculations.
(7)Water rate schedules and billing.
(8)Water shortage allocation policies.
(b)Describe the quantity and quality of water resources of the agricultural water supplier, including all of the following:
(1)Surface water supply.
(2)Groundwater supply.
(3)Other water supplies, including recycled water.
(4)Source water quality monitoring practices.
(5)Water uses within the agricultural water suppliers service area, including all of the following:
(A)Agricultural.
(B)Environmental.
(C)Recreational.
(D)Municipal and industrial.
(E)Groundwater recharge, including estimated flows from deep percolation from irrigation and seepage.
(c)Include an annual water budget based on the quantification of all inflow and outflow components for the service area of the agricultural water supplier. Components of inflow shall include surface inflow, groundwater pumping in the service area, and effective precipitation. Components of outflow shall include surface outflow, deep percolation, and evapotranspiration. An agricultural water supplier shall report the annual water budget on a water-year basis. The department shall provide tools and resources to assist agricultural water suppliers in developing and quantifying components necessary to develop a water budget.
(d)Include an analysis, based on available information, of the effect of climate change on future water supplies.
(e)Describe previous water management activities.
(f)Identify water management objectives based on the water budget to improve water system efficiency or to meet other water management objectives. The agricultural water supplier shall identify, prioritize, and implement actions to reduce water loss, improve water system management, and meet other water management objectives identified in the plan.
(g)Include in the plan information regarding efficient water management practices required pursuant to Section 10608.48.
(h)Quantify the efficiency of agricultural water use within the service area of the agricultural water supplier using the appropriate method or methods from among the four water use efficiency quantification methods developed by the department in the May 8, 2012, report to the Legislature entitled A Proposed Methodology for Quantifying the Efficiency of Agricultural Water Use. The agricultural water supplier shall account for all water uses, including crop water use, agronomic water use, environmental water use, and recoverable surface flows.
(i)If a reservoir is identified as an existing or planned source of water available to the supplier, all of the following information shall be contained in the plan:
(1)(A)A target water supply storage curve based on target carryover levels sufficient to satisfy water users and ecological stream flow needs for at least five years, with reasonably predicted inflow calculations considering local conditions and climate change.
(B)The reservoir storage level shall be calculated each month based on reservoir capacity, projected inflows, evaporation, water demands from all users, and streamflow requirements. The reservoir storage level shall be plotted against the target water supply storage curve on a calendar to ensure that target storage levels are being met.
(2)An automatic conservation plan that is implemented when the reservoir storage level falls below the target water supply storage curve determined in subparagraph (A). When both an automatic conservation plan and a drought plan pursuant to Section 10826.2 are in effect, the more restrictive of the two plans shall govern. An automatic conservation plan shall include all of the following:
(A)Six standard water shortage levels corresponding to progressive ranges of up to 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 percent shortages below the target water supply curve and greater than 50 percent shortage.
(B)At each water shortage level, agricultural water suppliers shall initiate conservation response actions that align with the defined shortage levels and include, at a minimum, all of the following:
(i)Locally appropriate supply augmentation actions.
(ii)Locally appropriate demand reduction actions to adequately respond to shortages.
(iii)Locally appropriate operational changes.
(iv)Additional, mandatory prohibitions against specific water use practices that are in addition to state-mandated prohibitions and appropriate to the local conditions.
(C)For each action, an estimate of the extent that the gap between the target reservoir storage level and the actual reservoir storage level will be reduced by implementation of the action.
(D)For each action, an estimate of impacts to other water resources, including any increase in groundwater extraction.
SECTION 1.Section 1020 of the Water Code is amended to read:1020.Water may be leased for a period not to exceed five years to assist water conservation efforts pursuant to the terms and conditions of this chapter. The terms and conditions of this chapter are not applicable to water leases or transfers governed by other law.Water may be leased for a period not to exceed five years to assist water conservation efforts pursuant to the terms and conditions of this chapter. The terms and conditions of this chapter are not applicable to water leases or transfers governed by other provisions of law.
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| Sep 1, 2023 | In committee: Held under submission. |
| Aug 21, 2023 | In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. |
| Aug 14, 2023 | From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. |
| Aug 9, 2023 | In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. |
| Jul 11, 2023 | From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. |
| Jul 3, 2023 | From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. |
| Jun 14, 2023 | Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. |
| Jun 1, 2023 | In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. |
| May 31, 2023 | Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 18. Page 2031.) |
| May 18, 2023 | Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 58. Noes 15. Page 1585.) |
| May 11, 2023 | Read second time. Ordered to third reading. |
| May 10, 2023 | From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (May 10). |
| Apr 26, 2023 | Re-referred to Com. on APPR. |
| Apr 25, 2023 | Read second time and amended. |
| Apr 24, 2023 | From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (April 24). |
| Mar 13, 2023 | Re-referred to Com. on W., P., & W. |
| Mar 9, 2023 | Referred to Com. on W., P., & W. |
| Mar 9, 2023 | From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on W., P., & W. Read second time and amended. |
| Feb 14, 2023 | From printer. May be heard in committee March 16. |
| Feb 13, 2023 | Read first time. To print. |
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| Aug 21, 2023 | Placed on suspense file | Senate Standing Committee on Appropriations |
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| Jul 10, 2023 | Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] | Senate Standing Committee on Natural Resources and Water |
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| May 31, 2023 | AB 754 Papan Assembly Third Reading | Assembly Floor |
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| May 18, 2023 | AB 754 Papan Assembly Third Reading Amendment Set #1 | Assembly Floor |
Passed |
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| May 10, 2023 | Do pass. | Assembly Standing Committee on Appropriations |
Passed |
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| Apr 24, 2023 | Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] | Assembly Standing Committee on Water, Parks, and Wildlife |
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This list shows positions taken on this bill by organizations on the date displayed, which is linked to the original source.
Positions by individuals are not included.
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Organization
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Position
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| Association Of California Water Agencies | * Against | Jul 10, 2023 |
| Bellflower Somerset Mutual Water Company | ** Against | |
| California Coastkeeper Alliance | * Support | Jul 10, 2023 |
| California Municipal Utilities Association | * Against | Jul 10, 2023 |
| City of Roseville | ** Against | |
| Coachella Valley Waterkeeper | ** Support | |
| Contra Costa Water District | * Against Unless Amend | Jul 10, 2023 |
| Desert Water Agency | ** Against | |
| East Bay Municipal Utility District | * Against Unless Amend | Jul 10, 2023 |
| El Dorado Irrigation District | ** Against | |
| Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District | ** Against | |
| Humboldt Baykeeper | ** Support | |
| Inland Empire Waterkeeper | ** Support | |
| Irvine Ranch Water District | ** Against | |
| Irvine Water District | * Against | Apr 24, 2023 |
| Los Angeles Waterkeeper | * Support | Jul 10, 2023 |
| Modesto Irrigation District | ** Against | |
| Monterey Waterkeeper | ** Support | |
| Northern California Water Association | * Against | Jul 10, 2023 |
| Orange County Coastkeeper | ** Support | |
| Palmdale Water District | ** Against | |
| Placer County Water Agency | ** Against | |
| Rancho California Water District | ** Against | |
| Reeb Government Relations | * Against | Jul 10, 2023 |
| Regional Water Authority | ** Against | |
| Rowland Water District | ** Against | |
| Russian Riverkeeper | * Support | Jul 10, 2023 |
| San Diego Coastkeeper | ** Support | |
| San Juan Water District | * Against | Apr 24, 2023 |
| San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority | * Against | Jul 10, 2023 |
| Santa Barbara Channelkeeper | ** Support | |
| Sierra Club California | * Support | Jul 10, 2023 |
| South Yuba River Citizens League | ** Support | |
| The Otter Project | ** Support | |
| Turlock Irrigation District | ** Against | |
| Walnut Valley Water District | ** Against | |
| Western Canal Water District | ** Against | |
| Yuba River Waterkeeper | ** Support | |
| Yuba Water Agency | * Against Unless Amend | Jul 10, 2023 |
SENATE COMMITTEE ON
Senator Anthony Portantino, Chair
2023 - 2024 Regular Session
AB 754 (Papan) - Water management planning: water shortages
Version: | Policy Vote: |
Urgency: | Mandate: |
Hearing Date: | Consultant: |
Bill Summary:
This bill would require a water shortage contingency plan to include, if, based on a description and quantification of each source of water supply, a single reservoir constitutes at least 50% of the total water supply, an identification of the dam and description of existing reservoir management operations, as specified, and if the reservoir is owned and operated by the urban water supplier, a description of operational practices and approaches, as specified.
Fiscal Impact:
- The Department of Water Resources (DWR) estimates ongoing costs of approximately $500,000 per year (General Fund or special fund) to implement the provisions of this bill.
Background:
Existing law requires an "urban water supplier" [a publicly or privately owned water supplier that provides water for municipal purposes to more than 3,000 customers or delivers more than 3,000 acre-feet (AF) annually] to prepare and adopt an urban water management plan (UWMP) that projects water demand over a 20-year planning horizon. UWMPs must be updated and submitted to the Department of Water Resources (DWR) every five years and include specified information such as a description of the urban water supplier's service area, projected growth, water use by sector, and energy needed to provide water service.
An UWMP must include a water shortage contingency plan that assesses water supply reliability, identifies six standard water shortage levels corresponding to 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, and greater than 50% shortages, and identifies shortage response actions relative to each water shortage level.
Existing law requires an "agricultural water supplier" [a publicly or privately owned water supplier that provides water to 10,000 or more irrigated acres] to prepare and submit an agricultural water management plan (AWMP) to DWR every five years. An AWMP must include a description of the supplier's service area, an annual water budget, the quality and quantity of the supplier's water resources, and water management objectives to improve water system efficiency, among other provisions.
An AWMP must include a drought plan that describes actions an agricultural water supplier takes for drought preparedness and to manage water supplies during periods of drought.
Proposed Law:
This bill would require a water shortage contingency plan to include, if, based on a description and quantification of each source of water supply, a single reservoir constitutes at least 50% of the total water supply, an identification of the dam and description of existing reservoir management operations, as specified, and if the reservoir is owned and operated by the urban water supplier, a description of operational practices and approaches, as specified. It would also require, if based on specified findings related to water supply, a single reservoir constitutes at least 50% of the total water supply, the policies for declaring a water shortage to consider certain information related to that reservoir.
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER
Senator Dave Min, Chair
2023 - 2024 Regular
Bill No: AB 754 Hearing Date: July 10, 2023
Author: | |||
Version: | Amended | ||
Urgency: | Fiscal: | ||
Consultant: | |||
Subject: Water management planning: water shortages
BACKGROUND AND EXISTING LAW
Existing law requires an "urban water supplier" [a publicly or privately owned water supplier that provides water for municipal purposes to more than 3,000 customers or delivers more than 3,000 acre-feet (AF) annually] to prepare and adopt an urban water management plan (UWMP) that projects water demand over a 20-year planning horizon. UWMPs must be updated and submitted to the Department of Water Resources (DWR) every five years and include specified information such as a description of the urban water supplier's service area, projected growth, water use by sector, and energy needed to provide water service.
An UWMP must include a water shortage contingency plan that assesses water supply reliability, identifies six standard water shortage levels corresponding to 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, and greater than 50% shortages, and identifies shortage response actions relative to each water shortage level.
Existing law requires an "agricultural water supplier" [a publicly or privately owned water supplier that provides water to 10,000 or more irrigated acres] to prepare and submit an agricultural water management plan (AWMP) to DWR every five years. An AWMP must include a description of the supplier's service area, an annual water budget, the quality and quantity of the supplier's water resources, and water management objectives to improve water system efficiency, among other provisions.
An AWMP must include a drought plan that describes actions an agricultural water supplier takes for drought preparedness and to manage water supplies during periods of drought.
Existing law:
- Under the Urban Water Management Act:
- Requires every public and private urban water supplier that directly or indirectly provides water for municipal purposes to prepare and adopt an UWMP.
- Requires an UWMP to quantify past, current, and projected water use, identifying the uses among water use sectors, as specified.
- Requires every urban water supplier to prepare and adopt a water shortage contingency plan as part of its UWMP.
- Requires the water shortage contingency plan to include procedures for an annual water supply and demand assessment, including data inputs and assessment methodology used to evaluate the urban water supplier’s water supply reliability for the current year and one dry year.
- Requires the key data inputs and assessment methodology to include specified information, including, among other things, a description and quantification of each source of water supply.
- Requires the key data inputs and assessment methodology to include specified information, including, among other things, a description and quantification of each source of water supply.
- Requires every public and private urban water supplier that directly or indirectly provides water for municipal purposes to prepare and adopt an UWMP.
- Requires an agricultural water supplier to prepare and adopt an AWMP with specified components and to update those plans on or before April 1 every five years, in the years ending in six or one.
- Requires an agricultural water supplier to include a drought plan as a part of its agricultural water management plan.
- Requires the drought plan to describe the agricultural water supplier’s actions relating to drought preparedness and management of water supplies and allocations during drought conditions, as provided.
- Requires drought response planning to include, among other things, policies and a process for declaring a water shortage and for implementing water shortage allocations and related response actions.
- Requires an agricultural water supplier to include a drought plan as a part of its agricultural water management plan.
PROPOSED LAW
This bill, if a single reservoir constitutes at least 50 percent of the total water supply, requires an urban water supplier as a part of their water shortage contingency plan in their UWMP to include, and an agricultural water supplier as a part of their drought plan in their AWMP to consider, all of the following:
- An identification of the dam and description of existing reservoir management operations, including:
- The name of the reservoir.
- The name of the reservoir owner and operator.
- Total reservoir capacity.
- The range of historic annual inflows into the reservoir.
- The range of historical annual outflows from the reservoir.
- The range of historical annual carryover volumes for the reservoir.
- The purposes for which the reservoir is operated, as specified.
- Existing regulatory requirements, including instream flow requirements downstream of the reservoir.
- A target water supply storage curve for that reservoir based on target carryover levels sufficient to satisfy water users and ecological streamflow needs and water quality needs, as specified. Requires each month the actual reservoir level be plotted against the target water supply storage curve on a calendar to compare actual reservoir levels with target reservoir levels.
- If the reservoir is owned and operated by the supplier, a description of operational practices and approaches, including:
- Existing annual carryover targets and reservoir operations taken to achieve those targets under the range of historic hydrologic conditions.
- Potential actions that may be taken under the range of potential future hydrologic conditions considering climate change.
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT
According to the author, “The recent wave of winter storms is a reminder of the climate whiplash California is experiencing due to climate change. Between 2012 – 2016 California endured one of the harshest droughts in the state’s history, 2017 was one of the wettest years on record, and between 2019 – 2023, the state was plunged back into an extreme drought.
Currently, the state eagerly uses all available water immediately after wet years, and does not conserve until crisis hits. We must start planning for severe droughts rather than scrambling to react when faced with water shortages. To better handle California's water crisis, California must learn to adapt to these extreme weather fluctuations and conserve water from the wet years before drought. In recent years, some water suppliers have supplemented their analysis of total water supply with a target supply curve for their reservoir to provide a more holistic picture of water supply in the midst of extreme conditions. To accurately account for changing reservoir conditions, which inevitably affect the total water supply, AB 754 simply requires agricultural and urban water suppliers to develop and consider a target supply curve.
ARGUMENTS IN OPPOSITION
A coalition letter representing various water agencies and districts argue that the bill “will lead to significant challenges and unnecessary costs for both urban and agricultural water agencies” … “is duplicative of existing planning requirements, fails to recognize the multi-purpose nature of reservoirs, and would dilute the effectiveness of local agencies’ calls for conservation. … AB 754 would additionally require water agencies for whom a single reservoir supplies 50 percent of the total water supply to develop a target water supply storage curve for that reservoir, compare the reservoir level against this curve on a monthly basis, and trigger conservation actions in response.” The coalition argues that it is inappropriate for AB 754 to require agencies to make water storage and conservation decisions based on one source of supply rather than considering the entire portfolio of water supplies, such as groundwater, recycled water, surface water, desalinated water, etc. and water supply goals. It is argued that the bill “would create perverse incentives and potentially impede critical activities like groundwater recharge in wet years.”
According to East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD), the bill creates potential conflict with reservoirs that have multiple uses, including flood control and how flood control operations are governed. According to the letter, “the bill would require urban water suppliers to consider specific factors in determining target carryover storage levels. However, many water suppliers and owners/operators of reservoirs, including EBMUD, must abide by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flood control rules and regulations and cannot consider the factors specified in the bill when determining whether to release water from reservoirs for flood control purposes.
COMMENTS
Recent significant author’s amendments make stakeholders positions unclear. On July 3, 2023, the author amended the bill to remove the provisions that would have required the implementation of conservation actions based on a monthly target water supply storage curve. Many of the letters received are dated before those amendments and centered on this provision, arguing that the requirement that water suppliers calculate a fixed-in-time target supply storage curve, maintain monthly compliance with that curve, or otherwise be required to implement conservation actions, is counter to the need for flexibility when responding to climate extremes.
While the current version of the bill still requires urban water suppliers and agricultural water suppliers, who get at least 50 percent of their water supply from a single reservoir, to develop and include a target storage curve in its UWMP or AWMP, respectively, recent amendments remove the requirement that reservoir shortage levels, on a monthly basis, trigger shortage response actions. Urban water suppliers and agricultural water suppliers would still be required to plot the actual reservoir level against the target storage curve on a monthly basis.
Instead of triggering conservation measures, amendments would also require the urban water suppliers and agricultural water suppliers to include information about that reservoir, including reservoir capacity, historic annual inflow, historical annual outflows, purposes for which the reservoir is operated, and existing regulatory requirements.
SUPPORT
California Coastkeeper Alliance
Coachella Valley Waterkeeper
Humboldt Baykeeper
Inland Empire Waterkeeper
Los Angeles Waterkeeper
Monterey Waterkeeper
Orange County Coastkeeper
Russian Riverkeeper
San Diego Coastkeeper
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper
Sierra Club California
South Yuba River Citizens League
The Otter Project
Yuba River Waterkeeper
OPPOSITION
Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA)
Bellflower Somerset Mutual Water Company
California Municipal Utilities Association (CMUA)
City of Roseville
Contra Costa Water District
Desert Water Agency
East Bay Municipal Utility District (unless amended)
El Dorado Irrigation District
Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District
Modesto Irrigation District
Northern California Water Association
Palmdale Water District
Placer County Water Agency
Rancho California Water District
Regional Water Authority
Rowland Water District
Turlock Irrigation District
Walnut Valley Water District
Western Canal Water District
Yuba Water Agency (unless amended)
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
ATR Bill Id:AB 754
Author:(Papan)
As Amended Ver:May 18, 2023
Majority vote
SUMMARY
Requires an urban or agricultural water agency that relies on a single reservoir for at least 50% of its water supply to include water shortage response actions in its urban water management plan (UWMP) or agricultural water management plan (AWMP), as applicable, that are implemented when water storage falls below specified levels.
Major Provisions
- Requires an urban or agricultural water agency that relies on a single reservoir for at least 50% of its water supply to include water shortage response actions in its UWMP or AWMP, as applicable, that are implemented when water storage in the reservoir falls below specified levels. The water shortage response actions shall be incorporated into a UWMP's water shortage contingency plan or an AWMP's drought plan, as applicable.
- Requires an urban or agricultural water agency that relies on a single reservoir for at least 50% of its water supply to include a target storage curve for said reservoir sufficient to satisfy water users, ecological stream flow requirements, and water quality needs for the current year and one dry year.
- Requires water shortage response actions in an UWMP or AWMP to be implemented when reservoir storage level falls below the target water supply storage curve. Water shortage response actions shall correspond to 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, and greater than 50% shortages below the target water supply curve.
COMMENTS
Existing law requires an "urban water supplier" [a publicly or privately owned water supplier that provides water for municipal purposes to more than 3,000 customers or delivers more 3,000 acre-feet (AF) annually] to prepare and adopt an UWMP that projects water demand over a 20-year planning horizon. UWMPs must be updated and submitted to Department of Water Resources (DWR) every five years and include specified information such as a description of the urban water supplier's service area, projected growth, water use by sector, and energy needed to provide water service.
An UWMP must include a water shortage contingency plan that assesses water supply reliability, identifies six standard water shortage levels corresponding to 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, and greater than 50% shortages, and identifies shortage response actions relative to each water shortage level.
Existing law requires an "agricultural water supplier" (a publicly or privately owned water supplier that provides water to 10,000 or more irrigated acres) to prepare and submit an AWMP to DWR every five years. An AWMP must include a description of the supplier's service area, an annual water budget, the quality and quantity of the supplier's water resources, and water management objectives to improve water system efficiency, among other provisions.
An AWMP must include a drought plan that describes actions an agricultural water supplier takes for drought preparedness and to manage water supplies during periods of drought.
According to the Author
According to the author, "currently, the state eagerly uses all available water immediately after wet years and does not conserve until crisis hits. We must start planning for severe droughts rather than scrambling to react when faced with water shortages. The worst time to plan for drought is during drought. To better handle California's water crisis, California must learn to adapt to these extreme weather fluctuations and conserve water from the wet years before drought. To deal with these issues, [this bill] simply requires agricultural and urban water suppliers to initiate demand-side conservation triggered by reservoir storage levels. These plans will change our management from reactive to proactive."
The author points to the state's experience of "climate whiplash" over the past decade with fluctuations from extreme drought, to extraordinarily wet periods, back to severe drought as evidence that this bill is necessary to foster better planning and preparation for inevitable drought.
Arguments in Support
This bill is sponsored by California Coastkeeper Alliance (Alliance) which asserts it is necessary so that both urban and agricultural water suppliers exercise greater foresight in planning for periods of drought and to ensure demand-side conservation actions are adopted once in drought. The Alliance points to examples of urban water suppliers that draw down reservoir levels as a first response to drought rather than taking steps to reduce demand during such periods: "many plans, rather than incentivizing conservation to preserve water, simply draw-down storage levels, exacerbating supply issues for the next year." The Alliance maintains that the drought plans within AWMPs "are focused on resiliency strategies to obtain and use the same amount of water every year, regardless of drought conditions." The Alliance argues this bill will change this by requiring greater conservation and "make conservation a way of life and change our management from reactive to proactive."
Arguments in Opposition
The Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) opposes this bill arguing that its provisions, though well-intended, are redundant and duplicative of existing requirements relative to UWMPs and AWMPs. "Much of what would be included in the required automatic conservation plan and the correlating conservation response actions would be duplicative of existing shortage response actions, communication protocols, and compliance and enforcement protocols outlined in a water providers' UWMP and AWMP." In addition, ACWA notes that many water suppliers rely on water from reservoirs that they themselves do not manage so that the requirements placed on water suppliers by this bill "would be based on reservoir actions that are out of their control." ACWA asserts that existing requirements already provide a framework to improve drought preparedness and regional resilience.
FISCAL COMMENTS
According to the Assembly Appropriations Committee, DWR "anticipates total costs of approximately $500,000 over five years to update its UWMP and AWMP guidance and training to incorporate the new requirements in this bill."
VOTES
ASM WATER, PARKS, AND WILDLIFE: 10-4-1
YES: Bauer-Kahan, Bennett, Friedman, Hart, Kalra, Pellerin, Blanca Rubio, Schiavo, Villapudua, Weber
NO: Mathis, Alanis, Joe Patterson, Davies
ABS, ABST OR NV: Ward
ASM APPROPRIATIONS: 12-3-1
YES: Holden, Bryan, Calderon, Wendy Carrillo, Mike Fong, Addis, Lowenthal, Papan, Pellerin, Robert Rivas, Weber, Wilson
NO: Megan Dahle, Dixon, Sanchez
ABS, ABST OR NV: Mathis
UPDATED
VERSION: May 18, 2023
CONSULTANT: Pablo Garza / W., P., & W. / (916) 319-2096 FN: 0000394
ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
ATR Bill Id:AB 754
Author:(Papan)
As Amended Ver:April 25, 2023
Majority vote
SUMMARY
Requires urban water management plans (UWMP) and agricultural water management plans (AWMP) that identify a reservoir as a water supply source to include an automatic conservation plan that will be implemented when water storage in the reservoir falls below specified levels.
Major Provisions
- Requires UWMPs and AWMPs to include an automatic conservation plan that is implemented if the water supplier relies upon, or plans to rely upon, a reservoir for water supply and water levels at that reservoir fall below levels necessary to meet demands.
- Requires an UWMP or AWMP that identifies a reservoir as a water supply source to include a target storage curve, based on target carryover levels, sufficient to satisfy water users and ecological stream flow needs for at least 5 years.
- Requires the automatic conservation plan in an UWMP or AWMP to be implemented when the reservoir storage level falls below the target water supply storage curve. The automatic conservation plan shall include, among other provisions, standard water shortage levels corresponding to 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, and greater than 50% shortages below the target water supply curve and conservation response actions for each water shortage level.
COMMENTS
Existing law requires an "urban water supplier" [a publicly or privately owned water supplier that provides water for municipal purposes to more than 3,000 customers or delivers more 3,000 acre-feet (AF) annually] to prepare and adopt an UWMP that projects water demand over a 20-year planning horizon. UWMPs must be updated and submitted to Department of Water Resources (DWR) every five years and include specified information such as a description of the urban water supplier's service area, projected growth, water use by sector, and energy needed to provide water service.
An UWMP must include a water shortage contingency plan that assesses water supply reliability, identifies six standard water shortage levels corresponding to 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, and greater than 50% shortages, and identifies shortage response actions relative to each water shortage level.
Existing law requires an "agricultural water supplier" (a publicly or privately owned water supplier that provides water to 10,000 or more irrigated acres) to prepare and submit an AWMP to DWR every 5 years. An AWMP must include a description of the supplier's service area, an annual water budget, the quality and quantity of the supplier's water resources, and water management objectives to improve water system efficiency, among other provisions.
An AWMP must include a drought plan that describes actions an agricultural water supplier takes for drought preparedness and to manage water supplies during periods of drought.
According to the Author
According to the author, "currently, the state eagerly uses all available water immediately after wet years and does not conserve until crisis hits. We must start planning for severe droughts rather than scrambling to react when faced with water shortages. The worst time to plan for drought is during drought. To better handle California's water crisis, California must learn to adapt to these extreme weather fluctuations and conserve water from the wet years before drought. To deal with these issues, [this bill] simply requires agricultural and urban water suppliers to initiate demand-side conservation triggered by reservoir storage levels. These plans will change our management from reactive to proactive."
The author points to the state's experience of "climate whiplash" over the past decade with fluctuations from extreme drought, to extraordinarily wet periods, back to severe drought as evidence that this bill is necessary to foster better planning and preparation for inevitable drought.
Arguments in Support
This bill is sponsored by California Coastkeeper Alliance (Alliance) which asserts it is necessary so that both urban and agricultural water suppliers exercise greater foresight in planning for periods of drought and to ensure demand-side conservation actions are adopted once in drought. The Alliance points to examples of urban water suppliers that draw down reservoir levels as a first response to drought rather than taking steps to reduce demand during such periods: "many plans, rather than incentivizing conservation to preserve water, simply draw-down storage levels, exacerbating supply issues for the next year." The Alliance maintains that the drought plans within AWMPs "are focused on resiliency strategies to obtain and use the same amount of water every year, regardless of drought conditions." The Alliance argues this bill will change this by requiring greater conservation and "make conservation a way of life and change our management from reactive to proactive."
Arguments in Opposition
The Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) opposes this bill arguing that its provisions, though well-intended, are redundant and duplicative of existing requirements relative to UWMPs and AWMPs. "Much of what would be included in the required automatic conservation plan and the correlating conservation response actions would be duplicative of existing shortage response actions, communication protocols, and compliance and enforcement protocols outlined in a water providers' UWMP and AWMP." In addition, ACWA notes that many water suppliers rely on water from reservoirs that they themselves do not manage so that the requirements placed on water suppliers by this bill "would be based on reservoir actions that are out of their control." ACWA asserts that existing requirements already provide a framework to improve drought preparedness and regional resilience.
FISCAL COMMENTS
According to the Assembly Appropriations Committee, DWR "anticipates total costs of approximately $500,000 over five years to update its UWMP and AWMP guidance and training to incorporate the new requirements in this bill."
VOTES
ASM WATER, PARKS, AND WILDLIFE: 10-4-1
YES: Bauer-Kahan, Bennett, Friedman, Hart, Kalra, Pellerin, Blanca Rubio, Schiavo, Villapudua, Weber
NO: Mathis, Alanis, Joe Patterson, Davies
ABS, ABST OR NV: Ward
ASM APPROPRIATIONS: 12-3-1
YES: Holden, Bryan, Calderon, Wendy Carrillo, Mike Fong, Addis, Lowenthal, Papan, Pellerin, Robert Rivas, Weber, Wilson
NO: Megan Dahle, Dixon, Sanchez
ABS, ABST OR NV: Mathis
UPDATED
VERSION: April 25, 2023
CONSULTANT: Pablo Garza / W., P., & W. / (916) 319-2096 FN: 0000374
Date of Hearing: May 10, 2023
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Chris Holden, Chair
ABPCA Bill Id:AB 754
Author:(Papan) – As Amended Ver:April 25, 2023
Policy Committee: | Water, Parks and Wildlife | Vote: | 10 - 4 |
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Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: No Reimbursable: No
SUMMARY:
This bill requires an urban water management plan (UWMP) and an agricultural water management plan (AWMP) that identifies a reservoir as an existing or planned water supply source to include (a) a target water supply storage curve sufficient to satisfy water users and ecological stream flow needs for at least five years, as specified, and (b) an automatic conservation plan (ACP), as specified, that is to be implemented when the reservoir storage levels fall below the target water supply storage determined in (a). This bill further provides that when both an UMWP’s ACP and water shortage contingency plan are in effect, or when both an AWMP’s ACP and drought plan are in effect, the more restrictive of the two plans shall govern for each.
FISCAL EFFECT:
The Department of Water Resources (DWR) anticipates total costs of approximately $500,000 over five years to update its UWMP and AWMP guidance and training to incorporate the new requirements in this bill.
COMMENTS:
1) Purpose. According to the author:
Currently, the state eagerly uses all available water immediately after wet years and does not conserve until crisis hits. We must start planning for severe droughts rather than scrambling to react when faced with water shortages. The worst time to plan for drought is during drought. To better handle California's water crisis, California must learn to adapt to these extreme weather fluctuations and conserve water from the wet years before drought. To deal with these issues, [this bill] simply requires agricultural and urban water suppliers to initiate demand-side conservation triggered by reservoir storage levels. These plans will change our management from reactive to proactive.
2) Background.
Urban Water Management Plans. According to DWR, UWMPs are prepared by urban water suppliers every five years. These plans support the suppliers’ long-term resource planning to ensure that adequate water supplies are available to meet existing and future water needs. Every urban water supplier that either provides over 3,000 acre-feet of water annually or serves more than 3,000 urban connections is required to submit an UWMP. DWR provides guidance for urban water suppliers by preparing an UWMP Guidebook, conducting workshops, developing tools, and providing technical assistance to water suppliers. DWR then reviews the submitted plans to make sure they have addressed the requirements identified in the Water Code and submits a report to the Legislature summarizing the status of the plans for each five-year cycle.
Agricultural Water Management Plans. Agricultural water suppliers serving more than 25,000 irrigated acres (excluding recycled water deliveries) are required to adopt and submit to DWR an AWMP. Agricultural water suppliers can submit individual plans or collaborate and submit regional plans, as long as the plans meet certain requirements.
3) Support and Opposition. Writing in support of this bill, a coalition of environmental organizations states:
While urban water suppliers are required to develop water shortage contingency plans, these plans are triggered only when total water supplies are insufficient to meet normal customer demands. As a result, after a wet year, urban water suppliers are free to drain their reservoirs with the hope they will be refilled during the next year, only mandating conservation once overall supply runs low…Many plans, rather than incentivizing conservation to preserve water, simply draw-down storage levels, exacerbating supply issues for the next year. Moreover, some water conservation triggers are far too low… Further, agricultural water suppliers do not share the same conservation requirements. While a 2015 Executive Order codified in 2018 required these suppliers to develop a drought plan within their agricultural water supply plans, unlike water shortage contingency plans which mandate conservation, drought plans are focused on resiliency strategies to obtain and use the same amount of water every year, regardless of drought conditions.
Writing in opposition, the Association of California Water Agencies and California Municipal Utilities Association state:
Much of what would be included in the required automatic conservation plan and the correlating conservation response actions would be duplicative of existing shortage response actions, communication protocols, and compliance and enforcement protocols outlined in a water providers’ UWMP and AWMP. While a water provider may receive water from a reservoir, for many water providers, that reservoir may be owned and operated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and/or is part of the larger State Water Project or Central Valley Project, and that the requirements placed on water providers would be based on reservoir actions that are out of their control. For those water agencies that rely in whole or part on locally managed reservoirs, they are already accounting for the issues this bill seeks to address in their water management plans. For urban water retailers, the annual water supply and demand assessment also already accounts for reservoirs as a potential water resource. This bill appears to be creating a duplicative requirement without any additional benefits to either the state or local agencies.
Analysis Prepared by: Nikita Koraddi / APPR. / (916) 319-2081
Date of Hearing: April 24, 2023
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON WATER, PARKS, AND WILDLIFE
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, Chair
ABPCA Bill Id:AB 754 (
Author:Papan) – As Amended Ver:March 9, 2023
SUBJECT: Water management planning: automatic conservation plan
SUMMARY: Requires urban water management plans (UWMP) and agricultural water management plans (AWMP) that identify a reservoir as a water supply source to include an automatic conservation plan that will be implemented when reservoir levels fall below specified targets. Specifically, this bill:
- Requires an UWMP to include an automatic conservation plan that is implemented if the water supplier relies upon, or plans to rely upon, a reservoir for water supply and water levels at that reservoir fall below levels necessary to meet demands.
- Requires an UWMP that identifies a reservoir as a water supply source to include a target storage curve, based on target carryover levels, sufficient to satisfy water users and ecological stream flow needs for at least five years. Requires the reservoir storage level to be calculated each month based on reservoir capacity, projected inflows, evaporation, water demands from all users, and streamflow requirements. The reservoir storage level shall be plotted against the target water supply storage curve.
- Requires the automatic conservation plan in an UWMP to be implemented when the reservoir storage level falls below the target water supply storage curve. The automatic conservation plan shall include the following:
- Six standard water shortage levels corresponding to 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, and greater than 50% shortages below the target water supply curve;
- Conservation response actions for each water shortage level that include locally appropriate water supply augmentation actions, water demand reduction actions, operational changes, and mandatory prohibitions against specific water use practices;
- An estimate of how much each conservation action will close the gap between target reservoir storage levels and actual reservoir storage levels;
- An estimate of how each conservation action will impact other water resources, including groundwater extraction;
- Water demand reduction actions that apply to all customer classes and that may include ordinances, metering, conservation pricing, and public education;
- Other demand management actions that have a significant impact on water use; and
- Other demand management actions that have a significant impact on downstream water right holders.
- Provides that when both an UMWP’s automatic conservation plan and water shortage contingency plan are in effect, the more restrictive of the two plans shall govern.
- Requires an AWMP to include an automatic conservation plan that is implemented if the water supplier relies upon, or plans to rely upon, on a reservoir for water supply and water levels at that reservoir fall below levels necessary to meet demands.
- Requires an AWMP that identifies a reservoir as a water supply source to include a target storage curve, based on target carryover levels, sufficient to satisfy water users and ecological stream flow needs for at least five years. Requires the reservoir storage level to be calculated each month based on reservoir capacity, projected inflows, evaporation, water demands from all users, and streamflow requirements. The reservoir storage level shall be plotted against the target water supply storage curve.
- Requires the automatic conservation plan in an AWMP to be implemented when the reservoir storage level falls below the target water supply storage curve. The automatic conservation plan shall include the following:
- Six standard water shortage levels corresponding to 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, and greater than 50% shortages below the target water supply curve;
- Conservation response actions for each water shortage level that include locally appropriate water supply augmentation actions, water demand reduction actions, operational changes, and mandatory prohibitions against specific water use practices;
- An estimate of how much each conservation action will close the gap between target reservoir storage levels and actual reservoir storage levels; and
- An estimate of how each conservation action will impact other water resources, including groundwater extraction.
- Provides that when both an AWMP’s automatic conservation plan and a drought plan are in effect, the more restrictive of the two plans shall govern.
EXISTING LAW:
- Defines “urban water supplier” as a publicly or privately owned water supplier that provides water for municipal purposes either directly or indirectly to more than 3,000 customers or in an amount greater than 3,000 acre-feet (AF) annually (Water Code § 10617).
- Requires every urban water supplier to prepare and adopt an UWMP that projects water demand in their service area and identifies sufficient water supplies to meet existing and projected water demand over a 20-year planning horizon. UWMPs must be updated and submitted to Department of Water Resources (DWR) every five years and include specified information such as a description of the urban water supplier’s service area, projected growth, water use by sector, and energy needed to provide water service (Water Code § 10620 et seq.).
- Requires an urban water management plan to include a water shortage contingency plan that assesses water supply reliability, identifies six standard water shortage levels corresponding to 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, and greater than 50% shortages, and identifies shortage response actions relative to each water shortage level (Water Code § 10632).
- Defines “agricultural water supplier” as a publicly or privately owned water supplier that provides water to 10,000 or more irrigated acres, excluding recycled water. DWR is not included in this definition (Water Code § 10608.12).
- Requires an agricultural water supplier to prepare and submit to DWR an AWMP every five years. An AWMP must include a description of the supplier’s service area, an annual water budget, the quality and quantity of the supplier’s water resources, and water management objectives to improve water system efficiency, among other provisions (Water Code § 10820 et seq.).
- Requires an AWMP to include a drought plan that describes actions an agricultural water supplier takes for drought preparedness and to manage water supplies during periods of drought (Water Code § 10826.2).
FISCAL EFFECT: Unknown. This bill is keyed fiscal.
COMMENTS:
- Purpose of this bill. According to the author, “currently, the state eagerly uses all available water immediately after wet years and does not conserve until crisis hits. We must start planning for severe droughts rather than scrambling to react when faced with water shortages. The worst time to plan for drought is during drought. To better handle California's water crisis, California must learn to adapt to these extreme weather fluctuations and conserve water from the wet years before drought. To deal with these issues, [this bill] simply requires agricultural and urban water suppliers to initiate demand-side conservation triggered by reservoir storage levels. These plans will change our management from reactive to proactive.”
The author points to the state’s experience of “climate whiplash” over the past decade with fluctuations from extreme drought, to extraordinarily wet periods, back to severe drought as evidence that this bill is necessary to foster better planning and preparation for inevitable drought. - Proposed technical amendment. This bill uses inconsistent terminology when referring to instream water needs. In the sections outlining the information needed to develop a target water supply storage curve, this bill refers to “ecological stream flow needs.” In the next subdivision that outlines information needed to calculate monthly reservoir storage levels, it refers to “streamflow requirements.” These terms should be consistent so as not to confuse what is being included in each calculation. “Streamflow requirements” would be a better choice as it implies regulatory requirements that must be met while “ecological stream flow needs” may or may not refer to any required flow. To address this inconsistency, the Committee may wish to ask the author to strike references to “ecological stream flow needs” and replace it with “streamflow requirements.” This change would need to be done in proposed Water Code § 10631(b)(5)(A)(i) and proposed Water Code § 10826(i)(1)(A) to make this clarification.
- Arguments in support. This bill is sponsored by California Coastkeeper Alliance (Alliance) which asserts it is necessary so that both urban and agricultural water suppliers exercise greater foresight in planning for periods of drought and to ensure demand-side conservation actions are adopted once in drought. The Alliance points to examples of urban water suppliers that draw down reservoir levels as a first response to drought rather than taking steps to reduce demand during such periods: “many plans, rather than incentivizing conservation to preserve water, simply draw-down storage levels, exacerbating supply issues for the next year.” The Alliance maintains that the drought plans within AWMPs “are focused on resiliency strategies to obtain and use the same amount of water every year, regardless of drought conditions.” The Alliance argues this bill will change this by requiring greater conservation and “make conservation a way of life and change our management from reactive to proactive.”
- Arguments in opposition. The Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) opposes this bill arguing that its provisions, though well-intended, are redundant and duplicative of existing requirements relative to UWMPs and AWMPs. “Much of what would be included in the required automatic conservation plan and the correlating conservation response actions would be duplicative of existing shortage response actions, communication protocols, and compliance and enforcement protocols outlined in a water providers’ UWMP and AWMP.” In addition, ACWA notes that many water suppliers rely on water from reservoirs that they themselves do not manage so that the requirements placed on water suppliers by this bill “would be based on reservoir actions that are out of their control.” ACWA asserts that existing requirements already provide a framework to improve drought preparedness and regional resilience.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:
Support
California Coastkeeper Alliance
Coachella Valley Waterkeeper
Humboldt Baykeeper
Inland Empire Waterkeeper
Los Angeles Waterkeeper
Monterey Waterkeeper
Orange County Coastkeeper
Russian Riverkeeper
San Diego Coastkeeper
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper
Sierra Club California
The Otter Project
Opposition
Association of California Water Agencies
California Municipal Utilities Association
Irvine Ranch Water District
Analysis Prepared by: Pablo Garza / W., P., & W. / (916) 319-2096
Discussed in Hearing
1MIN
Senate Standing Committee on Appropriations
17MIN
Senate Standing Committee on Natural Resources and Water
1MIN
Assembly Floor
20MIN
Assembly Standing Committee on Water, Parks, and Wildlife
Bill Author
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