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Santa Rosa reports strong early compliance with new statewide water-use rules
Summary
City staff told the Board of Public Utilities that Santa Rosa’s water use for fiscal year 2023–24 was about 40% below the state’s new urban water use objective and outlined investments and next steps for meeting progressively stricter standards.
Lisa Cuellar, the city’s water use efficiency coordinator, briefed the Board of Public Utilities on the state’s new “Making Conservation a California Way of Life” regulations and Santa Rosa’s progress meeting the new urban water use objective.
Cuellar said the statewide regulations, adopted by the State Water Resources Control Board and effective Jan. 1, 2025, set a tailored “urban water use objective” for each retail supplier. The objective combines residential indoor and outdoor use, commercial outdoor use, distribution system losses and adjustments for special uses, and will be calculated annually. Enforcement, she said, would be levied on the water provider (the city) rather than individual customers.
The nut of the briefing: Santa Rosa’s first report, covering fiscal year 2023–24, showed actual use nearly 40% below the city’s objective. That result, Cuellar said, ranks among the better…
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