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W A T E R E N E R G Y L I F E or RIVERSIDE PUBLIC UTILITIES W& Board Memorandum P U B L I C U T I L I T I E S BOARD OF PUBLIC UTILITIES DATE: JUNE 14, 2021 SUBJECT: PUBLIC HEARING - 2020 URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN ISSUE: Consider conducting a public hearing for review of the 2020 Urban Water Management Plan. RECOMMENDATIONS: That the Board of Public Utilities: 1. Conduct a Public Hearing for review of the 2020 Urban Water Management Plan; and 2. Recommend that the City Council adopt the 2020 Urban Water Management Plan. BACKGROUND: The City of Riverside Public Utilities Department (RPU) prepared its 2020 Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP) in accordance with the Urban Water Management Planning Act, sections 10610 through 10656 of the California Water Code. Water suppliers in California are required to update their UWMP every five years, in years ending in 5 or 0. RPU will complete its 2020 UWMP by the July 1 deadline according to the schedule established by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR). The Urban Water Management Planning Act (UWMP Act) and the California Water Code (CWC) require the preparation of a UWMP by water suppliers who have more than 3,000 service connections or serve more than 3,000 acre-feet per year (AFY) and, if a retail Supplier's wholesale use does exceed 3,000 AFY, the Supplier is also considered a wholesale Supplier, and it is required to complete the Submittal Tables for a wholesale Supplier (New for RPU). This UWMP summarizes RPU's projected retail and wholesale water demands and characterizes the source waters available to meet those demands for the next 25 years. The plan also describes the reliability of RPU's water supplies. It prepares RPU's five-year Drought Risk Assessment (DRA) and an update to the Water Shortage Contingency Plan (WSCP) analyses during a catastrophic event or drought conditions. Some of the new DWR requirements compared to the 2015 update are delineated in the table below: