Drinking Water Needs Assessment

The State Water Board received funding authorization to perform a Needs Analysis regarding the state of drinking water in California. The analysis must be completed by June 2021. This webpage is a repository of event notices, presentations, webcast recordings, and other reference material related to the Needs Assessment. Three workshops will cover the main aspects of this assessment: public water systems, domestic wells, and cost analysis.

Public Process

• Overall Needs Analysis Conceptual Plan (pdf)
  • Element 1 (coming soon)
  • Element 2 (coming soon)
  • Element 3 (to be determined)
• Notice of 2019 Workshops (pdf)

Public Water Systems

January 11, 2019 Workshop

• Agenda (pdf)
• Presentations
• State Water Board Introduction (pdf)
• State Water Board Financial Pilot Study (pdf)
• Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC) (pdf)
• California Rural Water Association (CRWA) (pdf)
• University of California, Davis (pdf)
• Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) (pdf)
• Pacific Institute Presentation (pdf)
• University of North Carolina, Environmental Finance Center (pdf)
• University of California, Los Angeles-Luskin Center for Innovation (pdf)
• Webcast Recording

Domestic Wells

January 18, 2019 Workshop

• Agenda (pdf)
• Abstracts (pdf)
• Presentations
  • State Board Introduction, J. Borkovich and D. Polhemus (pdf)
  • USGS GAMA Program, M. Fram (pdf)
  • State Board GAMA Program, D. Bellan (pdf)
  • Legacy Well Construction, R.M. Gailey (pdf)
  • CV-SALTS Technical Approaches, V. Kretsinger (pdf)
  • Modeling Nitrate in Central Valley, K. Ransom (pdf)
  • Domestic Well Data in the Central Valley, R. Pauloo (pdf)
  • Drinking Water Vulnerability Screening Tool, C. Pace (pdf)
  • Tulare Lake Basin GIS Collaborative, M. Hickey (pdf)
• Webcast Recording

Cost Analysis

May 10, 2019 Workshop

• Agenda (coming soon)
• Presentation (coming soon)
• Webcast Recording (coming soon)