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LeY 6 The Department of Water Resources(Department) shall continue work with the Water Board to develop standards that urban water suppliers will use to set new urban water use efficiency targets as directed by Executive Order 8-37-16. Upon enactment of legislation. the Water Board shall adopt urban water use efficiency standards that include indoor use, outdoor use. and leaks as well as performance measures for commercial industrial, and institutional water use. The Department shall provide technical assistance and urban landscape area data to urban water �I suppliers for determining efficient outdoor use. 7. The Water Board and the Department shall continue to direct actions to minimize water system leaks that waste large amounts of water The Water Board. after funding projects to address health and safety, shall use (' loans from the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund to pnoritize local projects that reduce leaks and other water system losses_ 8. The Water Board and the Department shall continue to take actions to direct urban and agricultural water suppliers to accelerate their data collection, improve water system management, and prioritize capital protects to reduce water waste. The California Public Utilities Commission is requested to work with investor-owned water utilities to accelerate work to minimize leaks_ 9. The Water Board is further directed to work with state agencies and water suppliers to identify mechanisms that would encourage and facilitate the adoption of rate structures and other pricing mechanisms that promote water conservation. 1(). 111 state agencies shall continue response activities that may be needed to , manage the lingering drought impacts to people and wildlife State agencies shall increase efforts at building drought resiliency for the future, including evaluating lessons learned from this current drought,completing efforts to modernize our infrastructure for drought and water supply reliability, and shall take actions to improve monitoring of native fish and • wildlife populations using innovative science and technology. CONTINUED DROUGHT RESPONSE IN FRESNO, KINGS, TULARE,AND TIJOLUMNE COUNTIES 11.The Water Board will continue to prioritize new and amended safe drinking water permits that enhance water supply and reliability for community water systems facing water shortages or that expand service connections to include existing residences facing water shortages 12.The Department and the Water Board will accelerate funding for local water supply enhancement projects and will continue to explore if any existing unspent funds can be repurposed to enable near-term water conservation projects. 13.The Water Board will continue to work with local agencies to identify communities that may run out of drinking water. and will provide technical and financial assistance to help these communities address drinking water ri