Urban water management plans.

Existing law, the Urban Water Management Planning Act, requires every public and private urban water supplier that directly or indirectly provides water for municipal purposes to prepare and adopt an urban water management plan and to update its plan once every 5 years on or before December 31 in years ending in 5 and zero. The act requires the plan to, among other things, include a description of each water demand management measure that is currently being implemented, and an evaluation of specified water demand management measures that are not currently being implemented or scheduled for implementation. The bill would instead require an urban retail water supplier and an urban wholesale water supplier to provide narratives describing the supplier's water demand management measures, as provided. The bill would require, for urban retail water suppliers, the narrative to address the nature and extent of each water demand management measure implemented over the past 5 years and describe the water demand management measures that the supplier plans to implement to achieve its water use targets. The bill would require each urban water supplier to submit its 2015 plan to the Department of Water Resources by July 1, 2016. Existing law imposes various water use reduction requirements that apply to urban retail water suppliers, including a requirement that the state achieve a 20% reduction in urban per capita water use by December 31, 2020. Existing law requires an urban retail water supplier to develop urban water use targets and to report to the Department of Water Resources its progress on meeting its urban water use target as a part of its urban water management plan. Existing law requires an urban wholesale water supplier to include in its urban water management plan an assessment of its measures, programs, and policies to help achieve the required water use reductions. Existing law requires, by December 31, 2016, the department to review the 2015 urban water management plans and report to the Legislature on the progress toward achieving the 20% reduction in urban water use. The bill would extend the date by which the department is required to review the plans and report to the Legislature to July 1, 2017. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 10631 of the Water Code proposed by SB 1420 that would become operative if this bill and SB 1420 are both enacted and this bill is enacted last.