BILL NUMBER: AB 2067 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Weber
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
An act to amend Section 10631 of the Water Code, relating to water
management.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2067, as introduced, Weber. Urban water management plans.
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. The act requires the plan to, among
other things, include a description of each water demand management
measure that is currently being implemented, and an evaluation of
specified water demand management measures that are not currently
being implemented or scheduled for implementation.
The bill would instead require an urban retail water supplier and
an urban wholesale water supplier to provide narratives describing
the supplier's water demand management measures, as provided. The
bill would require, for urban retail water suppliers, the narrative
to address the nature and extent of each water demand management
measure implemented over the past 5 years and describe the water
demand management measures that the supplier plans to implement to
achieve its water use targets.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. 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 demographic factors
affecting the supplier's 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.
(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). If groundwater is
identified as an existing or planned source of water available to
the supplier, all of the following information shall be included in
the plan:
(1) A copy of 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.
(2) A description of any groundwater basin or basins from which
the urban water supplier pumps groundwater. For those basins for
which 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 basins that have not been adjudicated, information as to whether
the department has identified the basin or basins as overdrafted or
has projected that the basin will become overdrafted if present
management conditions continue, 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 eliminate the long-term
overdraft condition.
(3) 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.
(4) 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.
(c) (1) Describe the reliability of the water supply and
vulnerability to seasonal or climatic shortage, to the extent
practicable, and provide data for each of the following:
(A) An average water year.
(B) A single dry water year.
(C) Multiple dry water years.
(2) For any water source that may not be available at a consistent
level of use, given specific legal, environmental, water quality, or
climatic factors, describe plans to supplement or replace that
source with alternative sources or water demand management measures,
to the extent practicable.
(d) Describe the opportunities for exchanges or transfers of water
on a short-term or long-term basis.
(e) (1) 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, identifying the uses among
water use sectors, including, but not necessarily limited to, all of
the following uses:
(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.
(2) The water use projections shall be in the same five-year
increments described in subdivision (a).
(f) Provide a description of the supplier's water demand
management measures. This description shall include all of the
following:
(1) A description of each water demand management measure that is
currently being implemented, or scheduled for implementation,
including the steps necessary to implement any proposed measures,
including, but not limited to, all of the following:
(A) Water survey programs for single-family residential and
multifamily residential customers.
(B) Residential plumbing retrofit.
(C) System water audits, leak detection, and repair.
(D) Metering with commodity rates for all new connections and
retrofit of existing connections.
(E) Large landscape conservation programs and incentives.
(F) High-efficiency washing machine rebate programs.
(G) Public information programs.
(H) School education programs.
(I) Conservation programs for commercial, industrial, and
institutional accounts.
(J) Wholesale agency programs.
(K) Conservation pricing.
(L) Water conservation coordinator.
(M) Water waste prohibition.
(N) Residential ultra-low-flush toilet replacement programs.
(2) A schedule of implementation for all water demand management
measures proposed or described in the plan.
(3) A description of the methods, if any, that the supplier will
use to evaluate the effectiveness of water demand management measures
implemented or described under the plan.
(4) An estimate, if available, of existing conservation savings on
water use within the supplier's service area, and the effect of the
savings on the supplier's ability to further reduce demand.
(g) An evaluation of each water demand management measure listed
in paragraph (1) of subdivision (f) that is not currently being
implemented or scheduled for implementation. In the course of the
evaluation, first consideration shall be given to water demand
management measures, or combination of measures, that offer lower
incremental costs than expanded or additional water supplies. This
evaluation shall do all of the following:
(1) Take into account economic and noneconomic factors, including
environmental, social, health, customer impact, and technological
factors.
(2) Include a cost-benefit analysis, identifying total benefits
and total costs.
(3) Include a description of funding available to implement any
planned water supply project that would provide water at a higher
unit cost.
(4) Include a description of the water supplier's legal authority
to implement the measure and efforts to work with other relevant
agencies to ensure the implementation of the measure and to share the
cost of implementation.
(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.
(h)
(g) 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, other than the demand management
programs identified pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (f),
programs that the urban water supplier may
implement to increase the amount of the water supply available to the
urban water supplier in average, single-dry, and multiple-dry 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.
(i)
(h) Describe the opportunities for development of
desalinated water, including, but not limited to, ocean water,
brackish water, and groundwater, as a long-term supply.
(j)
(i) For purposes of this part, urban water suppliers
that are members of the California Urban Water Conservation Council
shall be deemed in compliance with the requirements of
subdivisions subdivision (f) and (g)
by complying with all the provisions of the "Memorandum of
Understanding Regarding Urban Water Conservation in California,"
dated December 10, 2008, as it may be amended, and by submitting the
annual reports required by Section 6.2 of that memorandum.
(k)
(j) Urban water suppliers that rely 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 supplier's 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 (c). 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 (c).