Author: Huey D. Johnson

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9781332282951

Excerpt from State Water Project Status of Water: Conservation and Water Supply Augmentation Plans, November 1981 This bulletin supplements and updates information provided in the Department of Water Resources Bulletin 76, Delta Water Facilities, published in July 1978. That bulletin outlined a comprehensive program proposed by the Department for protecting the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and for meeting water needs of the State Water Project through the year 2000. The water management program proposed by the Department is embodied in the measures that would be authorized under Senate Bill 200. The program places emphasis on(1) water conservation measures to reduce demands for new supplies, thus stretching the use of existing supplies;(2) water augmentation measures which will increase future supplies for use by the contracting agencies of the State Water Project; and(3) environmental protection facilities. It is an integrated and balanced program to conserve water whenever possible and to also develop additional supplies when this becomes necessary to ensure the socioeconomic well-being of the citizens of California. Senate Bill 200 was passed by the California Legislature in July 1980 and was signed by Governor Edmund G.Brown Jr. At the same time that the Governor signed Sb 200, he also issued Executive Order B-68-80, which contained three major requirements: (1) The Department of Water Resources is directed to prepare a plan of water conservation, reclamation and management for the State Water Project to be submitted to the State Water Resources Control Board, such plan to recommend actions that could be undertaken by the State and its water service contractors to reduce the demand for water, to reclaim urban and agricultural waste water, to store water underground in order to provide for dry years, and to provide for consideration of pricing changes, water exchanges, and other methods for reducing the demand for new water facilities. (2) The Department of Water Resources is hereby directed to implement as quickly as possible a program to desalt 400, 000 acre-feet of agricultural waste water and other brackish water. (3) And finally, the State Water Resources Control Board is urged to require water conservation plans in the exercise of their water rights authority. In 1980 a referendum qualified, and voters will be asked to either approve or reject Sb 200 at the general election in June 1982. Sb 200 and its companion constitutional measure, ACA 90 (Proposition 8, approved at the November 1980 election), will become law only if there is a favorable vote by the people on the measure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.