On September 25, 2012, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. signed Assembly Bill (AB) 685, making California the first state in the nation to legislatively recognize the human right to water.
Now in the Water Code as Section 106.3, the state statutorily recognizes that “every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water adequate for human consumption, cooking, and sanitary purposes.” The human right to water extends to all Californians, including disadvantaged individuals and groups and communities in rural and urban areas. Show More | Show Less
The following is a list of updates have been made to the Portal as of 8/17/2018:
- Posted a current summary of water system's exceedance/compliance status (Excel file) in the Compliance Status tab
- Posted detailed exceedance/compliance issues data (Excel files) in the Water Data tab
- Included the number of service connections a water system has in a new data column titled “service connections” in the downloadable excel files
- Added a new tab titled "Funding," which contains links to funding resources for drinking water projects
Information Relating to Human Right to Water
- Press Release
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Resolutions
- Presentations
- Drinking Water Watch – Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) Data
- Water System Success Stories
- Human Right to Water in the News
- Other References
- Division of Drinking Water Reports and Publications
- United Nations Work on the Human Right to Water Work and Sanitation
- Assessing Water Affordability - A Pilot Study in Two Regions of California
- The Human Right to Water Bill in California by UC Berkeley Law School
- Video »» Thirsty for Justice: Struggle for the Human Right to Water
- Video »» Community Water Center: Advancing Community-Driven Water Solutions
- Drinking Water Resource Guide
Public Water System Compliance Status
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Download
Summary of Public Water System
Exceedance / Compliance Status
(Excel file)
Drinking Water Map Information
- Exceedance/Compliance Status of Public Water Systems
- Affordable
(estimated completion 2018) - Accessible
(coming in 2018)
Water System Drinking Water Data
- Data Disclosure
- Exceedance/Compliance Status of Public Water Systems (PWSs) Data (Excel Files)
- Download GIS Map Shapefile
- Chromium-6 Drinking Water MCL Information
- Affordable Safe Drinking Water (ASDW) Initiative (Under Revision)
- Affordable Data (Excel file) (estimated completion 2018)
- For more information on affordable drinking water rate development activities, see the Low-Income Water Rate Assistance Program webpage
- See also Assembly Bill (AB) 401 text
- Accessible Data (Excel file) (coming in 2018)
Funding Resources for Drinking Water Projects
- Division of Financial Assistance (DFA) Application Status Search
- The application status tool allows users to search the status of drinking water and clean water applications that have been submitted for funding consideration and are under review. Applicants who have received a funding agreement are not on this report.
- Drinking Water Application Status Report
- DFA assists public water systems in financing the cost of drinking water infrastructure projects needed to achieve or maintain compliance with Safe Drinking Water Act requirements.
- Proposition 1 Funded Drinking Water Projects (Map)
- Proposition 1 Technical Assistance (TA) Funding Program
- The Proposition 1 (Prop 1) TA Program is available to help small (less than 10,000 people) disadvantaged communities develop, fund, and implement Prop 1 eligible drinking water, wastewater, storm water, or groundwater capital projects. In addition to Prop 1 TA, DFA also manages the DWSRF set-aside funding for training and non-capital project development such as, compliance audits, rate studies, and income surveys to small public water systems.
- List of Water Systems Receiving Interim Bottled Water/POU
- Coming soon.
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