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California and Arizona Courts Consider Municipal Water Provider Cases
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2009.tb09935.x
Subject(s) - supreme court , mandate , statutory law , law , duty , business , political science
The California Supreme Court recently held that the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) does not mandate a county to direct water system operators to notify residents of water supply contamination. In Guzman v. County of Monterey, the court found that it was the water system operator's duty to notify residents of such contamination but refused to find an implied statutory duty mandating that Monterey County direct operators to do so.