
Small Water System & Rural Community Water Planning
A DWR County Drought Advisory Group Effort
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This StoryMap provides links to projects by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR), State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) and Community Water Center (CWC) that involve small water system and rural community water planning.
| Water Shortage Risk | This is the first effort to systematically and holistically consider water shortage relative risk statewide of small water suppliers and households (DWR). The draft report and methodology for developing relative risk assessment scores that show where small water systems rank on an index of drought and water shortage vulnerability is available here .
| Water Shortage Contingency Plans for Small Water Suppliers and Rural Communities | DWR is working with stakeholders to propose recommendations to the Governor and Legislature on how to plan for drought and water shortage for areas outside of urban water supplier service areas (per California Water Code Section 10609.42(b). The public review draft report is available here .
| Water Quality Violation Risk | The SWRCB was appropriated funding to implement a Needs Analysis on the state of drinking water in California.
| Human Right to Water Tracking | The framework and tool monitor progress in achieving the human right to water and represents the first state-led effort to holistically assess the domestic water quality, accessibility, and affordability of drinking water challenges facing California's public drinking water systems (SWRCB, OEHHA).
| Community Water Center Drinking Water Tool| The CWC Drinking Water Tool is under development and will be publicly available in February 2020. This tool provides information about the ways groundwater challenges like droughts may impact communities' access to long-term safe and affordable drinking water.