WSP06374

• File Number: 8056
• Description: Drought Preparedness
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 6/1/1988
• Author: Washington State DSH
• Title: Guidelines for the Preparation of Water Shortage Response Plans
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

STEP 'lHREE: PlAN IMPlEMENI'ATION

OBJECl'IVE

The objective of this Step is to develop a program for putting your water
shortage response plan into action. This step involves:

o developing a schedule for canying out your plan (unless it is a
contingency plan) ;

o detennining how you are going to pay for it; and

o monitoring its effectiveness (i.e., is your plan producing the desired
results; do you need to do more or less?).

If you are developing a WSRP as a conti.nqencv plan, there is no need for
you to develop a schedule at this tilne. A schedule should be developed
two or three months before you decide to put your plan into effect, however.

PIAN CDNTENT

A. Schedule

If you are facing a water shortage, or potential shortage, you need to
develop a schedule for putting your plan into effect. For example, if one
of your decisions is to develop a public infonnation program, you may need
to:

o obtain or develop your own conservation brochures;

o decide how you will distribute the brochures to your customers;

o develop news releases;

o decide if you will take your I1lE!Ssage to the schools; and

o decide if you want to obtain or develop conservation "retrofit kits",
(such kits typically include flow restrictors for showers and faucets,
displacement bags for toilet tanks, gauges for lawn watering, and leak
detection tablets).

Allow ample lead tilne for finding or developing suitable public infonnation
materials and for obtaining funding. Think through each of the activities
you have decided to undertake. If developing a news release, how far in
advance should it be provided to the news media? If distributing retrofit
kits, how will distribution be handled? If printing conservation brochures,
who will print them?

Your schedule should provide:

o enough tilne to can:y out your course of action; and

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