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P U B L I C U T I L I T I E S BOARD OF PUBLIC UTILITIES RIVERSIDE PUBLIC UTILITIES Board Memorandum DATE: MARCH 13, 2017 GENERAL MANAGER'S REPORT ITEM NO: 18 Riverside Public Utilities Drought and Conservation Efforts Update As of January 2017 On May 9, 2016, Governor Brown issued Executive Order B-37-16 which called for extending the drought emergency regulations through January 2017 and authorizing the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) to make further changes based upon lessons learned from the drought response to date. The SWRCB revised mandatory emergency water conservation regulations required water agencies to self -certify that they have adequate supply of water for the next three years under drought conditions, and to continue reporting the conservation efforts to SWRCB on monthly basis. Based on Riverside's water supplies exceeding projected water demands for the next three years, assuming extended drought conditions, the City Council self - certified to a zero conservation standard on June 7, 2016. In spite of the new requirement of zero conservation standard, Riverside residents conservation efforts reached up to 20% and cumulatively; conservation is at 15% to date (Figure 1). This translates to 7,650 Acre-feet (2,494 million gallons). On a Regional scale, Riverside resident's water consumption measured in gallons per capita per day (Residential-GPCD) is comparable to the aggregate consumption within the surrounding ten water agencies (Figure 2).