Anaheim, CA Water Use Rules: Recycled Water Rules (2026)

16 of the water and electric utility code alongside the City's potable-water rules. 110 as water approved for purposes other than human consumption that meets Division 4 of Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations, is used for nonpotable uses across the water service area whenever the Public Utilities Department finds it available and cost-effective. 120 then locks the actual use and distribution to the Department's Rates, Rules and Regulations and to every applicable federal, state, and local law, expressly citing Titles 17 and 22 of the California Code of Regulations, the state rules covering recycled-water treatment levels, cross-connection control, and allowed end uses such as landscape irrigation, industrial process water, and toilet flushing in dual-plumbed buildings.

03 exempts any use of Recycled Water from the mandatory cutbacks the City imposes under its Water Conservation and Water Shortage Contingency chapter during a declared Water Shortage, meaning an approved recycled-water connection keeps irrigating even when potable irrigation is restricted. Customers who want to convert landscape or industrial water use to Recycled Water apply through the Public Utilities Department, which sets the connection charges, cross-connection testing requirements, and service terms in its Rates, Rules and Regulations rather than in the municipal code itself, so the code operates as the authorizing policy layer and the Department's rules carry the engineering detail.