1. Breaking barriers between city & water leaders
Leaders Working Together to Resolve Water Issues
Sam Pedroza
WELL Conference, Sacramento
March 2018

2. The players 58 Counties 482 Cities 2,410 Locally-elected officials
2,471 Special Water Districts
~12,000 Water agency elected officials
1,475 CA Latino elected officials
Number of incorporated cities in California (as of July 1, 2011): 482
Three counties contain no incorporated cities: Alpine, Mariposa and Trinity
Latest incorporated city and date incorporation: Eastvale (10/1/10) and  Jurupa Valley (7/1/11), both in Riverside County
Number of charter cities: 121
Number of general law cities: 361
defines water special districts as those districts which perform at least one of three specific duties: water delivery, waste disposal (sanitation), and flood control and water conservation.
There are 482 incorporated cities in California, and 285 of those (roughly 60 percent) own and operate water utilities. Not surprisingly, the largest city water system is owned by Los Angeles and serves approximately 4.1 million people.
Out of the 482 cities, 285 (60%) own and operate water
County Districts 129, Special Districts 537, public utilities 138, mutual water companies 1200, mobile parks 467

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4. Words to know
Acre-foot (af) - 1 acre of land, 1 foot, equal to 325,851 gallons.
Cubic feet per second (cfs) - equal to 7.48 gallons of water flowing each second.
Desalination - the removal of salts from saline water to provide freshwater.
Domestic water use - water used for household purposes.
Greywater - wastewater from clothes washing machines, showers, bathtubs, hand washing, lavatories and sinks.
Reclaimed wastewater - wastewater-treatment plant effluent
Recycled water - water that is used more than one time before it passes back into the natural hydrologic system.
Industrial water use - water used for industrial purposes in such industries as steel, chemical, paper, and petroleum refining.
Maximum contaminant level (mcl) - set by the EPA.
Million gallons per day (mgd) million gallons.
Non-point source (NPS) pollution - pollution discharged over a wide land area.
Parts per million (ppm) - This unit is commonly used to represent pollutant concentrations.
Potable water - water of a quality suitable for drinking
Runoff - That part of the precipitation, snow melt, or irrigation water that appears in uncontrolled surface streams, rivers, drains or sewers.
Storm sewer - a sewer that carries only surface runoff, street wash, and snow melt from the land
Watershed - It is a land feature that can be identified by tracing a line along the highest elevations between two areas on a map, often a ridge.
MS4 - Municipal Separate Storm Sewer

5. Our Water issues Dealing with the drought – Water Agency and Municipal
Increasing water supply – Water Agency driven, local land use
Flood management – Mostly Water Agency, County
Water quality –
Secondary – Water Providers
Primary – Regulatory Agencies
Stormwater –
Water quality
Water supply

6. Opportunities for synergy
California Drought of – new normal?
SB 485 – LACSD assist local jurisdictions in stormwater projects
Diversion
Management and treatment
Discharge of the water
Beneficial use
Carriage Crest Stormwater Project
the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects
On April 25, 2015, Gov. Jerry Brown issued an Executive Order mandating that 31 steps be taken in response to the ongoing drought. These directives include a 25 percent reduction in potable urban water usage through Feb. 28, Others include prohibitions against the use of potable water for irrigating ornamental turf in public street medians and outside newly constructed homes.