The California Water Plan: water data.

Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the plan for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water resources of the state, which is known as The California Water Plan. Existing law prescribes the contents of The California Water Plan, and requires the department to include a discussion of various strategies in the plan, including strategies relating to the development of new water storage facilities, water conservation, water recycling, desalination, conjunctive use, and water transfers that may be pursued in order to meet the future needs of the state. This bill would additionally require the department to include in the plan an assessment of the state's water data system and would prescribe requirements relating to the contents and conduct of the assessment.