SB 1049, as amended, Pavley. Integrated regional water management plans.
The Integrated Regional Water Management Planning Act authorizes a regional water management group to prepare an integrated regional water management plan, in accordance with certain procedures, for the implementation or operation of specified qualified projects or programs pertaining to water supply, water quality, or related matters. The act defines “regional projects or programs” as projects or programs identified in an integrated regional water management plan that accomplish specified water-related goals, including an increase in water supplies through the use of certain means.
This bill would specifically include projects or programs that reduce energy used to acquire, transport, treat, or distribute water,begin insert or that develop and support decision support tools to model regional water management strategies to account for climate change, energy use, and other factors relevant to regional demand and supply projections,end insert as a regional project or program. The bill would require a regional water management group to include all water suppliers that are within the watershed area, the area over a groundwater basin or subbasin, or the area within a county’s boundaries.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 10537 of the Water Code is amended to
2read:
“Regional projects or programs” means projects or
4programs identified in an integrated regional water management
5plan that accomplish any of the following:
6(a) Reduce water demand through agricultural and urban water
7use efficiency.
8(b) Increase water supplies for any beneficial use through the
9use of any of the following, or other, means:
10(1) Groundwater storage and conjunctive water management.
11(2) Desalination.
12(3) Precipitation enhancement.
13(4) Water recycling.
14(5) Regional and local surface storage.
15(6) Water-use efficiency.
16(7) Stormwater management.
17(c) Improve operational efficiency and water supply reliability,
18including conveyance facilities, system reoperation, and water
19transfers.
20(d) Improve water quality, including drinking water treatment
21and distribution, groundwater and aquifer remediation, matching
22water quality to water use, wastewater treatment, water pollution
23prevention, and management of urban and agricultural
runoff.
24(e) Improve resource stewardship, including agricultural lands
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stewardship, ecosystem restoration, flood plain management,
26recharge area protection, urban land use management, groundwater
27management, water-dependent recreation, fishery restoration,
28including fish passage improvement, and watershed management.
29(f) Improve flood management through structural and
30nonstructural means, or by any other means.
31(g) Reduce energy used to acquire, transport, treat, or distribute
32water.
33(h) Develop and support decision support tools to model
34regional management strategies to account for climate change,
P3 1energy use, and other factors relevant to regional demand and
2supply projections.
Section 10538 of the Water Code is amended to read:
“Regional reports or studies” means reports or studies
5relating to any of the matters described in subdivisions (a) tobegin delete (g)end delete
6begin insert (h)end insert, inclusive, of Section 10537, that are identified in an integrated
7regional water management plan.
Section 10551 is added to the Water Code, to read:
(a) A regional water management group, to the extent
10possible, shall include all of the water suppliers within one of the
11following geographic areas:
12(1) The watershed area.
13(2) The area over a groundwater basin or subbasin.
14(3) The area within a county’s boundaries.
15(b) For purposes of this section, water supplier includes
16wholesale and retail, public and private water suppliers.
17(c) Nothing in this section shall require a water supplier to
18participate in a regional water management group.
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