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06/08/2015 STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD RESOLUTION NO. 2015-0032 TO ADOPT AN EMERGENCY REGULATION FOR STATEWIDE URBAN WATER CONSERVATION WHEREAS: 1. On April 25, 2014, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. issued an executive order (April 2014 Proclamation)to strengthen the State's ability to manage water and habitat effectively in drought conditions, and called on all Californians to redouble their efforts to conserve water. The April 2014 Prodamation finds that the continuous severe drought conditions preser�t urgent challenges across the State, induding water shortages in communities and for agricultural production, incxeased wildfires,degraded habitat for fish and wildlife, threat of salfinrater contamination, and additional wa�r scarcity, if drought conditions continue into 2015. The April 2014 Proclamation also suspends the environmental review required by the California Environmental Quality Act to allow the emergency regulation and other actions to take place as quickly as possible; 2. The April 2014 Proclamation refers to the Governor's Proclamation No. 1-17-2014, issued on January 17, 2014, declaring a drought State of Emergency to exist in California due to severe drought conditions (January 2014 Prodamation). The January 2014 Proclamation finds that dry conditions and lack of precipitation present urgent problems to drinking water supplies and cultivation of crops, which put farmers' long-term investments at risk. The conditions also threaten the survival of animals and plants that rely on California's rivers, including many species in danger of extinction. The January 2014 Proclamation also calls on all Californians to reduce their water usage by 20 percen� 3. On December 22, 2014, in light of the continued lack of rain, Governor Brown issued Executive Order&28-14, which extends the California Environmental Quality Act suspension through May 31, 2016 for Water Code section 13247 and certain activities identified in the January 2014 and April 2014 proclamations; 4. On April 1, 2015, Governor Brown issued a new E�aecutive Order that directs the State Water Board to impose restrictions on urban water suppliers to achieve a statewide 25 percent reduction in potable urban usage through February 2016; require commercial, industrial, and institutional users to implement water efficiency measures; prohibit irrigation with potable water of ornamental turf in public street medians; and prohibit irrigation with potable water outside newy constructed homes and buildings that is not delivered by drip or microspray systems; along with other directives; 5. Water Code section 1058.5 grants the State Water Board the authority to adopt emergency regulations in certain drought years in order to: "prevent the waste, unreasonable use, unreasonable method of use, or unreasonable method of diversion, of water, to promote water recycling or water conservation, to require curtailment of diversions when water is not available under the diverter's priority of right, or in furtheranoe of any of the foregoing, to require reporting of diversion or use or the preparation of monitoring reports"; 1 RESO.#15418 MUFF#802