Section 79721 Of Chapter 5. Clean, Safe And Reliable Drinking Water From California Water Code >> Division 26.7. >> Chapter 5.
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. The projects eligible for funding pursuant to this chapter
shall help improve water quality for a beneficial use. The purposes
of this chapter are to:
(a) Reduce contaminants in drinking water supplies regardless of
the source of the water or the contamination.
(b) Assess and prioritize the risk of contamination to drinking
water supplies.
(c) Address the critical and immediate needs of disadvantaged,
rural, or small communities that suffer from contaminated drinking
water supplies, including, but not limited to, projects that address
a public health emergency.
(d) Leverage other private, federal, state, and local drinking
water quality and wastewater treatment funds.
(e) Reduce contaminants in discharges to, and improve the quality
of, waters of the state.
(f) Prevent further contamination of drinking water supplies.
(g) Provide disadvantaged communities with public drinking water
infrastructure that provides clean, safe, and reliable drinking water
supplies that the community can sustain over the long term.
(h) Ensure access to clean, safe, reliable, and affordable
drinking water for California's communities.
(i) Meet primary and secondary safe drinking water standards or
remove contaminants identified by the state or federal government for
development of a primary or secondary drinking water standard.