Action 3-1 · WS

Increase groundwater pumping to achieve up to 4 million gallons per day (mgd), monitoring water quality metrics to ensure compliance with public health standards, and report annual groundwater pumping and quality on SFPUC website.

Timing: No date set
Lead department: SF Public Utilities Commission
Strategy: Invest in and implement supply augmentation programs.
In the plan: Page 97 of the published PDF

Implementation status

Departments report status each January through the City's monitoring, evaluation, and reporting cycle. The first report on the 2026 plan covers calendar year 2026. Status, milestones, and notes will appear here.

Racial and Social Equity ReviewWhat the equity review said about this strategy

Equity impacts

New water infrastructure could exacerbate existing disparities. Water augmentation programs can support the increased resilience of communities but may potentially impact EJ communities.

Recommendations

Commit to, at a minimum, ensuring benefits are focused in EJ communities first.
Focus on reducing these disparities through education and ensuring benefits target EJ communities first.
Explore programs that would focus on education and shared decision making with EJ communities.
A more explicit action or mention of focusing in improved relationships with indigenous communities and/or other EJ communities would be useful here.
Find ways to increase outreach and education around programs and resilience benefits, as well as target ways to reduce impact for EJ communities.

Suggested edit to the draft

Suggest adding the following action: “Focus on targeted enrollment in low-income programs, more outreach, and free installation of low-flow equipment, etc."

Not adopted. No such action appears under WS-3; WS-1-1 covers fixture replacement generally.

Source: 2026 Climate Action Plan, Appendix C. Adoption status is our reading of the final text, pending SFE confirmation.