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It�f [,EGISLATIVE INFORMATION <br />H.,rne Bill Information California La%-/ Pubicetions Other Resources My Subscriptions My Favorites <br />CHAPTER 3. Urban Water Management Plans [10620 - 10645] ( Chapter 3 added by Stabs. 1983, Ch. 1009, <br />Sec. 1. ) <br />ARTICLE 2.5. Water Service Reliability [10635-10635.] (Article 2.5 added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 854, Sec. 11.) <br />10635. (a) Every urban water supplier shall include, as part of its urban water management plan, an <br />assessment of the reliability of its water service to its customers during normal, dry, and multiple dry <br />water years. This water supply and demand assessment shall compare the total water supply sources <br />available to the water supplier with the long-term total projected water use over the next 20 years, in five- <br />year increments, for a normal water year, a single dry water year, and a drought lasting five consecutive <br />water years. The water service reliability assessment shall be based upon the information compiled <br />pursuant to Section 10631, including available data from state, regional, or local agency population <br />projections within the service area of the urban water supplier. <br />(b) Every urban water supplier shall include, as part of its urban water management plan, a <br />drought risk assessment for its water service to its customers as part of information considered in <br />developing the demand management measures and water supply projects and programs to be <br />included in the urban water management plan. The urban water supplier may conduct an interim <br />update or updates to this drought risk assessment within the five-year cycle of its urban water <br />management plan update. The drought risk assessment shall include each of the following: <br />(1) A description of the data, methodology, and basis for one or more supply shortage <br />conditions that are necessary to conduct a drought risk assessment for a drought period that <br />lasts five consecutive water years, starting from the year following when the assessment is <br />conducted. <br />(2) A determination of the reliability of each source of supply under a variety of water <br />shortage conditions. This may include a determination that a particular source of water <br />supply is fully reliable under most, if not all, conditions. <br />(3) A comparison of the total water supply sources available to the water supplier with the total <br />projected water use for the drought period. <br />(4) Considerations of the historical drought hydrology, plausible changes on projected supplies and <br />demands under climate change conditions, anticipated regulatory changes, and other locally <br />applicable criteria. <br />(c) The urban water supplier shall provide that portion of its urban water management plan <br />prepared pursuant to this article to any city or county within which it provides water supplies no <br />later than 60 days after the submission of its urban water management plan. <br />(d) Nothing in this article is intended to create a right or entitlement to water service or any <br />specific level of water service. <br />(e) Nothing in this article is intended to change existing law concerning an urban water <br />supplier's obligation to provide water service to its existing customers or to any potential <br />future customers <br />(Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 14, Sec. 36. (SB 606) Effective January 1, 2019.) <br />