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4 <br />Service Area, so long as the end use of <br />the water remains within the Zone 7 jurisdictional boundary. <br />5. Exclusive Supplier <br />Contractor shall procure all water for use within its Service Area by purchase from Zone <br />7 pursuant to this Agreement and through exercise of its Groundwater Pumping Quota. <br />Contractor shall not contract for, purchase or receive, with or without compensation, <br />either directly or indirectly, water for use in its Service Area from any other source <br />except pursuant to the exceptions identified in Section 9 below. <br />Water purchased by Contractor under this Agreement or extracted as part of <br />Contractor's Groundwater Pumping Quota may not be delivered by Contractor to any <br />area other than Contractor's Service Area, except as required for responding to short- <br />term state or federally declared emergencies; or for protection of public health and <br />safety. <br />6. Quality of Water <br />Treated water to be delivered under this Agreement shall be of a quality that complies <br />with the Requirements for Drinking Water of the California State Water Resources <br />Protection Agency or their successor regulatory agencies. Zone 7 will endeavor to blend <br />and treat its different sources of water within its operational capabilities to provide <br />water of approximately equal quality to each Zone 7 M&I Contractor and aesthetically <br />acceptable to the Contractor s customers. Zone 7 will endeavor to provide treated water <br />and communicate in accordance with its Water Quality Policy. <br />7. Availability of Water <br />All deliveries under this Agreement are subject to the availability of water. The <br />availability of water may be limited by outside factors including, but not limited to: <br />drought; facilities outages; or limits on groundwater extraction capacities. In <br />Zone 7 will use best efforts to <br />procure water for deliveries, whether under existing contracts, transfers, groundwater <br />bank extractions, or other sources, based on the volumes and timing identified in the <br />approved annual delivery schedules for each M&I Contractor. <br />In the event that the supply of water projected by Zone 7 to be available for delivery to <br />each M&I Contractor is less than the total amount included in the approved delivery <br />schedule of each M&I Contractor for that year, Zone 7 shall notify all M&I Contractors <br />of a water shortage. <br />As necessary to respond to the water shortage, Zone 7 shall reduce scheduled <br />deliveries under this Agreement Service <br />Area, provided that Zone 7 may apportion on another basis if such is required to meet <br />Page 59 of 214