SBx7-7 The New Terrain

Chris BrownGreening Our Water Infrastructure

PetalumaApril 9, 2010

Best Management Practices

• 220 Wholesalers and Retailers• 14 BMPs in 5 Programmatic Groups• Savings tracked in a website

database• 2.0 Million Acre Feet saved since

1991

Need for Water Efficiency• Both drought related and growth related• Shortages are both short term and long term• California is projecting a need for 1.2 to 2.3

million AF of water conservation over the next twenty years (State Water Plan)

• Pacific Institute study estimates that up to 1/3 of the state’s urban water use could be saved with existing technologies

BMP Changes

• Many existing programs not reflected in current list

• Traditional Approach is ‘widget-based’

• Behavioral changes = demand reductions

Water Savings Opportunities

• Landscape• Leakage• High Efficiency Toilets• High Efficiency Clothes Washers• On – site alternative water use

The New Terrain

• Requirements of SB 7• Coordination with the 2011 UWMP

Baseline GPCD• Average gross water use over a continuous 10-year period

ending no earlier than Dec 31, 2004 and no later than Dec 31, 2010

• For retailers with at least 10% of 2008 demand served by recycled water (either retail or wholesale provided) this calculation may be extended to include an additional five years ending no earlier than Dec 31, 2004 and no later than Dec 31, 2010.

• For those retailers that are already close to their gpcd reduction targets (no less than 5% reduction), the estimate of average gross water use reported in gpcd and calculated over a continuous five-year period ending no earlier than Dec 31, 2007 and no later than Dec 31, 2010.

GPCD Target (methods 1 & 2)

1. 80% of baseline gpcd water use (i.e., a 20% reduction)

2. The sum of the following performance standards:

– indoor residential use (provisional standard set at 55 gpcd); plus

– landscape use, including dedicated and residential meters or connections equivalent to the State Model Landscape Ordinance (70% of ETo); plus

– 10% reduction in baseline commercial, industrial institutional use by 2020.

GPCD Target (methods 3 & 4)

3. 95% of the applicable state hydrologic region target as set in the Draft 20x2020 Water Conservation Plan (April 03, 2009);

4. A method to be identified and developed by DWR through a public process and reported to the Legislature by Dec 31, 2010, to achieve a cumulative statewide 20% reduction. An agency is not bound to use this new method if it results in a target that is higher than 20%.

UWMP Requirements

• Retailers must meet interim gpcd reduction targets by Dec 31, 2015 and final targets by Dec 31, 2020.

• UWMPs due July 1, 2011

Wholesalers• They must provide in their UWMPs “an assessment of…

present and proposed future measures, programs and policies to help achieve the water use reductions required…”

• Interactions between a wholesaler and its retailers, between wholesalers and retailers in a regional water management group, in an IRWMP funding area, a hydrologic region, or some other geographic scale “may” allow a retailer to meet its water use target, contingent upon “mutual agreement.”

• Should a wholesaler and its retailers decide to cooperate on a service area, regional, or other level, all data and reports must provide information for both the regional water management group and separately for each “consenting” retailer and wholesaler (section 10608.36)

AB 1420

• The requirements of AB 1420 to provide water use efficiency program information in Section 10631 of UWMPs remain in effect until 2016. Agencies not in compliance with AB 1420 and SBX7 will be ineligible for state loan and grant funding.

AB 1465

• Allows agencies that have signed the Urban MOU to continue to utilize their CUWCC BMP reports as a means to fulfill the Demand Management Measures section of the UWMP Act (section 10631).

• Section 10631(j) “…by complying with all the provisions of the urban MOU…and by submitting the annual reports required by…that MOU.”

SBx7-7 DWR, the Council, and Stakeholder Input

Project Tasks

• Urban Water Use Efficiency Goals 3 and 4– Development of baseline methods

• Due Date: October 1, 2010– Development of GPCD Target method 4

• Due Date: December 31, 2010

• CII Task Force– Appointed by April 2010– Finished in 2012

Tasks 3 and 4

• Public workshops• Development of an Urban Stakeholder

Committee (USC) to facilitate and coordinate public input

• Agency Team for cooperating state, federal agency, and council staff input into draft methods

• Project Management Team to do heavy lifting

Public and other Stakeholders

Urban Stakeholder Committee

Agency Team

Project Management Team

Baseline Methodologies (Target Method 4 will follow similar path)March April May June July

•Public Forums•North and South•USC meets

AT meets PMT works Draft Doc to AT and USC

•PMT revises Draft•Draft made public

Baseline Methodologies (Target Method 4 will follow similar path)

August Sept Oct Nov Dec

•Public Forums•North and South•USC meets

•AT meets•USC meets•PMT works

Baseline Due

•AT meets•USC meets•PMT works

•Target Method Due

CII Task Force

• Formal letters of invitation out in April

• Primary and secondary nominees• Water Agencies, Environmental

Groups, Academics, Industry Representatives

• Geographic diversity