Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to concur with House amendments and pass a bill that authorizes certain cities to exempt themselves from the assured water supply requirement.

Highlights:

• Authorizes municipalities with a population of more than 25,000 to adopt a water supply ordinance under the following conditions (Sec. 1):

• The municipality is participating in a program to augment the aquifer underlying the municipality;

• The municipality has adopted a plan for the reuse of reclaimed water;

• The municipality has adopted a residential and nonresidential water conservation program for interior and exterior water use;

• The municipality is in compliance with all applicable planning and reporting requirements if it is a community water system;

• The municipality has adopted an ordinance allowing only the use of xeriscape or other drought tolerant or low water use of vegetation for landscaping within a publicly owned right-of-way of a highway, street, road, or sidewalk, or curb, shoulder, or median of a highway, street, or road within the municipality;

• The municipality is funding a program to provide rebates for one or both of the following:

• Replacing low efficiency plumbing fixtures in residential and nonresidential structures with high efficiency plumbing fixtures; or

• Removing high water use landscaping from the exterior of residential and nonresidential structures;

• The municipality is limiting the amount of lost and unaccounted for water in its water distribution system to no more than 10 percent of the total quantity of water that enters the distribution system if the municipality is a water provider; and

• The municipality is funding a public education program related to water conservation and has implemented other water reduction programs within the municipality.

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