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</!�!'Lt<.!. <br />Its - (LEGISLATIVE INFORMATION <br />Home Bill Information California Law Publications Other Resources My Subscriptions My Favorites <br />that include, at a minimum, both of the following: <br />(A) The written decision making process that an urban water supplier will use each year to <br />determine its water supply reliability. <br />(B) The key data inputs and assessment methodology used to evaluate the urban water <br />supplier's water supply reliability for the current year and one dry year, including all of the <br />following: <br />(i) Current year unconstrained demand, considering weather, growth, and other influencing factors, <br />such as policies to manage current supplies to meet demand objectives in future years, as applicable. <br />(ii) Current year available supply, considering hydrological and regulatory conditions in the <br />current year and one dry year. The annual supply and demand assessment may consider more <br />than one dry year solely at the discretion of the urban water supplier. <br />(iii) Existing infrastructure capabilities and plausible constraints. <br />(iv) A defined set of locally applicable evaluation criteria that are consistently relied upon for <br />each annual water supply and demand assessment. <br />(v) A description and quantification of each source of water supply. <br />(3) (A) Six standard water shortage levels corresponding to progressive ranges of up to 10, 20, 30, <br />40, and 50 percent shortages and greater than 50 percent shortage. Urban water suppliers shall <br />define these shortage levels based on the suppliers' water supply conditions, including percentage <br />reductions in water supply, changes in groundwater levels, changes in surface elevation or level of <br />subsidence, or other changes in hydrological or other local conditions indicative of the water supply <br />available for use. Shortage levels shall also apply to catastrophic interruption of water supplies, <br />including, but not limited to, a regional power outage, an earthquake, and other potential <br />emergency events. <br />(B) An urban water supplier with an existing water shortage contingency plan that uses different <br />water shortage levels may comply with the requirement in subparagraph (A) by developing and <br />including a cross-reference relating its existing categories to the six standard water shortage levels. <br />(4) Shortage response actions that align with the defined shortage levels and include, at a <br />minimum, all of the following: <br />(A) Locally appropriate supply augmentation actions. Locally appropriate demand reduction actions to <br />adequately respond to shortages. <br />(B) Locally appropriate operational changes. <br />(C) Additional, mandatory prohibitions against specific water use practices that are in addition <br />to state -mandated prohibitions and appropriate to the local conditions. <br />(D) For each action, an estimate of the extent to which the gap between supplies and demand <br />will be reduced by implementation of the action. <br />(5) Communication protocols and procedures to inform customers, the public, interested <br />parties, and local, regional, and state governments, regarding, at a minimum, all of the <br />following: <br />(A) Any current or predicted shortages as determined by the annual water supply and <br />demand assessment described pursuant to Section 10632.1. <br />(B) Any shortage response actions triggered or anticipated to be triggered by the annual <br />water supply and demand assessment described pursuant to Section 10632.1. <br />(C) Any other relevant communications. <br />(6) For an urban retail water supplier, customer compliance, enforcement, appeal, and exemption <br />