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Water Vision Santa Barbara

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Planning and Adapting for Santa Barbara’s Water Future

The City Council of the City of Santa Barbara held a Public Hearing and adopted the City of Santa Barbara 2025 Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP) and 2025 Water Shortage Contingency Plan (WSCP), on Tuesday, June 16, 2026. The adopted documents are linked below:

The City’s 2025 UWMP and WSCP were prepared pursuant to the requirements of the California Water Code (CWC), §10631. An UWMP is a State-mandated report that generally summarizes the actions of water management agencies, with a planning horizon of 25 years. The 2025 UWMP fulfills CWC requirements, mandating certain reporting obligations, including specific water conservation targets. The 2025 UWMP demonstrates the City of Santa Barbara’s long-term water supply and demand balance through 2050 under normal, single-year, and multi-year drought conditions. The WSCP establishes a plan for responding to water shortages caused by drought conditions and/or a catastrophic water supply emergency.

The City’s guiding water supply planning and policy document is the Long-Term Water Supply Plan (LTWSP), which was updated in 2021 along with the 2020 UWMP. Together these documents are known as the 2020 Enhanced Urban Water Management Plan (EUWMP). This 2025 UWMP is an update to the 2020 Enhanced UWMP, addressing new requirements and regulations while aligning with the City’s LTWSP.  The EUWMP details the City’s water supply and management strategy for the next 30 years and includes an Adaptive Management Plan for flexible and responsive management of the City's water resources moving forward in an uncertain future.

The EUWMP sets a the vision for a water future that is:

  • RESILIENT to evolving risks and challenges.
  • DIVERSE to provide ample reliability in uncertain times.
  • AFFORDABLE to ensure equitable access to safe drinking water for our community.
  • ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY to protect our waterways, wildlife and ecosystems.
  • FORWARD-THINKING with cost-effective operations and adaptable technology.
Browse Archive & Documents from Development of EUWMP