CHAPTER 2. Definitions

Chapter 2 added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1009, Sec. 1.

§§ 10611–10618 · 12 sections

• § 10611 Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions of this chapter govern the construction of this part.
• § 10611.3 “Customer” means a purchaser of water from a water supplier who uses the water for municipal purposes, including residential, commercial, governmental, and…
• § 10611.5 “Demand management” means those water conservation measures, programs, and incentives that prevent the waste of water and promote the reasonable and efficient…
• § 10612 “Drought risk assessment” means a method that examines water shortage risks based on the driest five-year historic sequence for the agency’s water supply, as…
• § 10613 “Efficient use” means those management measures that result in the most effective use of water so as to prevent its waste or unreasonable use or unreasonable…
• § 10614 “Person” means any individual, firm, association, organization, partnership, business, trust, corporation, company, public agency, or any agency of such an…
• § 10615 “Plan” means an urban water management plan prepared pursuant to this part. A plan shall describe and evaluate sources of supply, reasonable and practical…
• § 10616 “Public agency” means any board, commission, county, city and county, city, regional agency, district, or other public entity.
• § 10616.5 ‛Recycled water” means the reclamation and reuse of wastewater for beneficial use.
• § 10617 “Urban water supplier” means a supplier, either publicly or privately owned, providing water for municipal purposes either directly or indirectly to more than…
• § 10617.5 “Water shortage contingency plan” means a document that incorporates the provisions detailed in subdivision (a) of Section 10632 and is subsequently adopted by…
• § 10618 “Water supply and demand assessment” means a method that looks at current year and one or more dry year supplies and demands for determining water shortage…