The California Safe Drinking Water Act (the Act) imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board (State Board) various responsibilities and duties relating to providing a dependable, safe supply of drinking water, including directly enforcing the provisions of the Act for all public water systems, except as specified.
Senate Bill 1188 (SB 1188) requires the State Board to develop and adopt minimum standards related to the technical, managerial, and financial capacity of community water systems serving fewer than 10,000 people or 3,300 service connections and non-transient non-community water systems that serve K–12 schools ( Community Water Systems). SB 1188 requires Community Water Systems to demonstrate compliance with the State Board standards within timelines adopted by the State Board. The Community Water Systems must demonstrate, as part of a permit application, compliance with the minimum State Board standards.
SB 1188 authorizes the State Board to require a Community Water System to show proof that it has the technical, managerial, and financial capacity to comply with the standards, including, but not limited to, annual reporting of information necessary and appropriate to monitor its current capacity status.
(SB 1188 adds Article 7.2 (commencing with section 116600) to Chapter 4 of Part 12 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code)