The California Water District Law (CWDL) provides for the establishment of water districts, and grants a district the power to acquire, plan, construct, maintain, improve, operate, and keep in repair the necessary works for the production, storage, transmission, and distribution of water for irrigation, domestic, industrial, and municipal purposes.

The CWDL authorizes a water district, by using any water or water supplies furnished to the district or used by the district, to construct, maintain, and operate plants for the generation of hydroelectric power from those water and transmission lines for the conveyance of that power. The CWDL authorizes a water district to join with any other district engaged in distributing water in exercising the powers granted to the district pursuant to that authorization, as described, or to execute joint power agreements with any agency formed for that purpose.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the latter authorization.