SEC. 8B.122. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES RELATED TO WATER AND CLEAN WATER.
§ 8B.122
The Water Commission must develop and implement programs to achieve nine core goals: providing reliable water and clean water services to the city and wholesale customers, setting equitable rates, ensuring system resilience, managing lands sustainably, prioritizing conservation, using innovative technology, implementing environmental justice guidelines, enabling community participation, and improving drinking water quality.
The Water Commission has nine main goals it needs to work toward. These include making sure San Francisco has clean, reliable water while keeping the city in charge of the system; setting fair rates that keep the system running; preparing for disasters; protecting the environment; saving water through conservation programs; using new technology when it helps; treating all neighborhoods fairly in its projects; letting people have a say in its decisions; and making drinking water as clean as possible.
- Complex:The section lists nine interrelated goals with some containing multiple embedded objectives (e.g., goal 4 combines land management, natural resources, hydroelectric operations, and habitat protection), making it dense and requiring careful parsing to understand the full scope.
- Controversial:Goal 2 (equitable rates sufficient for financial health) and goal 5 (water conservation) can create tension in public debate over water affordability, usage restrictions, and rate structures that affect different communities differently.
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Official text
(a) The Commission shall develop, periodically update and implement programs to achieve goals and objectives consistent with the following:
(1) Provide water and clean water services to San Francisco and water service to its wholesale customers while maintaining stewardship of the system by the City;
(2) Establish equitable rates sufficient to meet and maintain operation, maintenance and financial health of the system;
(3) Provide reliable water and clean water services and optimize the systems' ability to withstand disasters;
(4) Protect and manage lands and natural resources used by the Commission to provide utility services consistent with applicable laws in an environ-mentally sustainable manner. Operate hydroelectric generation facilities in a manner that causes no reasonably anticipated adverse impacts on water service and habitat;
(5) Develop and implement priority programs to increase and to monitor water conservation and efficiency system-wide;
(6) Utilize state-of-the-art innovative technologies where feasible and beneficial;
(7) Develop and implement a comprehensive set of environmental justice guidelines for use in connection with its operations and projects in the City;
(8) Create opportunities for meaningful community participation in development and implementation of the Commission's policies and programs; and
(9) Improve drinking water quality with a goal of exceeding applicable drinking water standards if feasible.
(Added November 2002)