MUNCICIPAL & INDUSTRIAL WATER SUPPLY

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