SACRAMENTO, Calif. ?EUR??,,????'??? A water conservation measure, Assembly Bill 607, was recently introduced for the association by Assembly Member George Plescia (R-La Jolla). This legislation would encourage local communities and water districts to meet landscape water conservation goals by adopting rate structures to reward efficient irrigation practices and punish wasteful practices. AB 607 would permit a city or county to exempt itself from the 1991 act if the community is located wholly within the boundaries of one or more water districts that have adopted a landscape water conservation rate structure that complies with the certain requirements. The water district would be required to have in its price structure a base water rate that applies to customers using an amount of water equal to not more than 100 percent of ETo per square foot of landscaped area during each billing cycle. Customers using an amount of water equivalent to more than 100 percent during any billing cycle would have to pay penalty rates that are spelled out in the bill. Discounts from the base water rate could be offered to customers using less than 100 percent. At least 50 percent of customers would have to have installed a dedicated landscape water meter or submeter. And, all customers would have to have installed such a meter no later than 15 years after the water district elected to use the rate structure. The rate structure would have to apply to all public and private large landscapes, including sports fields, parks, and golf courses. It would not have to apply to single-family homes, registered historical sites, ecological restoration projects that do not require a permanent irrigation system, or mine-land reclamation projects that do not require a permanent irrigation system.