California Water Code CHAPTER 2 - Definitions

• Section 10611.
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions of this chapter govern the construction of this part.(Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1009, Sec. 1.)
• Section 10611.5.
  “Demand management” means those water conservation measures, programs, and incentives that prevent the waste of water and promote the reasonable and efficient use and reuse...
• Section 10612.
  “Customer” means a purchaser of water from a water supplier who uses the water for municipal purposes, including residential, commercial, governmental, and industrial uses.(Added by...
• Section 10613.
  “Efficient use” means those management measures that result in the most effective use of water so as to prevent its waste or unreasonable use or...
• Section 10614.
  “Person” means any individual, firm, association, organization, partnership, business, trust, corporation, company, public agency, or any agency of such an entity.(Added by Stats. 1983, Ch....
• Section 10615.
  “Plan” means an urban water management plan prepared pursuant to this part. A plan shall describe and evaluate sources of supply, reasonable and practical efficient...
• Section 10616.
  “Public agency” means any board, commission, county, city and county, city, regional agency, district, or other public entity.(Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1009, Sec. 1.)
• Section 10616.5.
  ‛Recycled water” means the reclamation and reuse of wastewater for beneficial use.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 854, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 1996.)
• Section 10617.
  “Urban water supplier” means a supplier, either publicly or privately owned, providing water for municipal purposes either directly or indirectly to more than 3,000 customers...

Last modified: October 22, 2018