Description
The Making Conservation a California Way of Life regulation requires urban retail water suppliers to annually calculate their Urban Water Use Objective (UWUO), which is the sum of efficiency budgets for a subset of urban water uses: residential indoor water use, residential outdoor water use, real water loss and commercial, industrial and institutional landscapes with dedicated irrigation meters. Each efficiency budget will be calculated using a statewide efficiency standard and local service area characteristics such as population, climate, and landscape area. Where relevant, suppliers may also include in their objective “variances” for unique uses, or a bonus incentive for potable recycled water use.
This dataset contains the information submitted to the State Water Resources Control Board and the Department of Water Resources on the required reporting form. The values have been aggregated into individual tables that roughly correspond to the sections within the reporting form. The original submitted files can be found at the WUE Data Portal
To view the source data that pre-filled many of the fields within the reporting form, please visit this page.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calculated Objectives | CSV | This table contains the individual budgets that make up the supplier’s urban water use objectives, as well as the sum of reported regulated demands, and the volumes of SBx7-7 targets. All fields were either pre-filled or auto-calculated within the reporting form. | Open resource |
| Actual Water Use | CSV | This table contains per-supplier aggregated potable and non-potable volumes reported in gallons, broken down by water use category. Most fields were pre-filled with information reported within the SAFER Clearinghouse. | Open resource |
| Data Dictionary - Calculated Objectives | CSV | Data Dictionary for https://data.ca.gov/dataset/7c8e8c05-b43e-4a71-84af-87194ef724fc/resource/26947c31-0fee-467d-bc96-1dfcf688159a/download/objective.csv | Open resource |
| Data Dictionary - Actual Water Use | CSV | Data Dictionary for https://data.ca.gov/dataset/7c8e8c05-b43e-4a71-84af-87194ef724fc/resource/9a773df4-af2f-450d-b0e5-f49f4a1e1523/download/actualwateruse.csv | Open resource |