California Code of Regulations › Title 23 - Waters › Division 3 - State Water Resources Control Board and Regional Water Quality Control Boards › Chapter 3.5 - Urban Water Use Efficiency and Conservation › Article 2 - Reporting › Section 990 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
As used in this Article:
(a) "Board" means the State Water Resources
				  Control Board.
(b) "Commercial
				  agricultural use" means "agricultural use" as defined in Government Code
				  section
				  51201,
				  subdivision (b), including irrigation of land, irrigation within green houses,
				  frost protection, and heat control. "Commercial agricultural use" does not
				  include cleaning, processing, or other similar post-harvest
				  activities.
(c) "Non-revenue water"
				  means the portion of water consumption that is not billed and does not produce
				  revenue. It is equal to the sum of the urban water supplier's unbilled
				  authorized consumption and apparent and real losses.
(d) "Commercial, industrial, and
				  institutional" (CII) means all indoor and outdoor water used by all commercial
				  water users, industrial water users, and institutional water users as
				  respectively defined in Water Code, section
				  10608.12,
				  subdivisions (e), (i), and (j). CII includes agricultural water and landscape
				  water used for parks, medians, and other outdoor areas associated with
				  CII.
(e) "Percent residential use"
				  is calculated by dividing the amount of water provided to the residential
				  sector for the reporting month (not including non-revenue water) by the total
				  potable water production for the reporting month.
(f) "Total potable water production" means
				  all potable water that enters into a water supplier's distribution system,
				  excluding water placed into storage and not withdrawn for use during the
				  reporting period and excluding water exported outsider the supplier's service
				  area during the reporting period. Total Potable Water Production includes all
				  non-revenue waters.
(g) "Urban
				  water supplier" means a supplier that meets the definition set forth in Water
				  Code section
				  10617, except
				  it does not include suppliers when they are functioning solely in a wholesale
				  capacity. "Urban water supplier" does include suppliers when they are
				  functioning in a retail capacity.
(h) "Water shortage response action level"
				  means one of six standard water shortage levels corresponding to progressive
				  ranges of up to 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 percent shortages and greater than 50
				  percent shortage, as defined in Water Code section
				  10632,
				  subdivision (a)(3)(A).
1. New
					 chapter 3.5 (article 1, sections
					 990-991), article 1 (sections
					 990-991) and section filed
					 8-31-2020; operative 10-1-2020. Filing deadline specified in Government Code
					 section
					 11349.3(a)
					 extended 60 days pursuant to Executive Order N-40-20 and an additional 60 days
					 pursuant to Executive Order N-66-20 (Register 2020, No. 36).
2.
					 Renumbering of former article 1 to article 2 filed 2-6-2023; operative 4-1-2023
					 (Register 2023, No. 6).
Note: Authority cited: Section
						1058, Water
						Code. Reference: Article X, Section
						2, California Constitution;
						Section
						51201,
						Government Code; and Sections
						102,
						104,
						105,
						350,
						1122,
						1123,
						1124,
						1846,
						1846.5,
						10617 and
						10632, Water
						Code.