Agencies and Organizations

Citations and References

1. U.S. Dep. of Health & Human Services - Public Health Emergency, Introduction to U.S. Law & Policy, https://www.phe.gov/s3/law/Pages/default.aspx (last reviewed Feb. 15, 2018).

2. State Water Resources Control Board, About The Water Board, https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/about_us/ (last updated Mar. 6, 2023).

3. State Water Resources Control Board, About The Water Board, https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/about_us/ (last updated Mar. 6, 2023).

4. Cal. Health & Saf. Code § 116365 (contaminant level limits); Cal. Code Regs. tit. 22 (treatment);  State Water Resources Control Board - Division of Financial Assistance, Financial Assistance Funding - Grants and Loans https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/grants_loans/ (funding assistance) (last updated Jun. 25, 2024).

5. State Water Resources Control Board, The Nine Regional Water Quality Control Boards in California, https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/publications_forms/publications/factsheets/docs/region_brds.pdf (last updated Jun. 12, 2013).

6. See Cal. Const. art. XII, § 3 (conferring PUC jurisdiction over “private corporations and persons” that “own, operate, control, or manage a line, plant, or system for . . . the production, generation, transmission, or furnishing of . . . water . . . directly or indirectly to or for the public[.]”).

7. California Public Utilities Commission, CPUC History and Structure, https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/about-cpuc/divisions (last visited Oct. 20, 2022).

8. California Public Utilities Commission, PUC Mission, Values, and Vision Statements, https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/about-cpuc/cpuc-overview/about-us (last visited Oct. 20, 2022).

9.  Cal. Pub. Util. Code §§ 216(a) & (b), 240, 241, 2701.

10. Cal. Pub. Util. Code § 240.

11. Cal. Pub. Util. Code §§ 2705, 2705.5, 2705.6, 2706.

12. Cal. Pub. Util. Code §§ 2702, 2703, 2705 (a) & (b). See also Yucaipa Water Co. v. Pub. Utils. Com., 54 Cal. 2d 823 (1960) (subjecting to PUC regulation a mutual water company that was supplying water to nonmembers).

13. Cal. Pub. Util. Code § 2707.