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Authority shall mean the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority. Authority water supply system shall mean the waterworks under the control of the Authority. Contract termination date shall mean the termination date set forth in each individual Water Supply Continuation Agreement. Demand analysis shall mean the analysis of a community's water needs based on the criteria set forth for Demand Analysis Reports, as described below at 360 CMR 11.08. Demand management program shall mean a programwhichaddressesany planned or managed change in the manner or extent of use, distribution or sale of water which results in a reduction in consumption, evaporation, or transfer of water. DEP shallmeanthe Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection within the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. Enabling act shall mean the enabling act of the Authority, St. 1984, c. 372, as amended. Full cost pricing shall mean a user charge system which ensures for full recovery of all costs associated with provision of water services, net of other system revenue. Leak detection shall include butnotbe limited to a program for investigating and identifying water losses in the water supply or distribution system. Local body or community shall include but not be limited to the following cities, towns, or districts of the Commonwealth: Cambridge, Canton, Chicopee, Framingham, Leominster, Lynn Water and Sewer Commission, Marlborough, Needham, Northborough, Peabody, Southborough, South Hadley Fire District No. 1, Wakefield, Wellesley, Weston, Wilbraham, Winchester, Woburn and Worcester. 11.02: continued Local source shall mean a water supply source other than MDC/Authority sources which is available for use by a community. Maximum daily demand shall mean the maximum volume of water required over a consecutive 24 hour period. MDC shall mean the Metropolitan District Commission. MDC/Authority sources shall mean the Quabbin Reservoir, the Intake Reservoir on the Ware River at Coldbrook, the Wachusett Reservoir, the open channel of the Wachusett Aqueduct, the Sudbury Reservoir, Stearn's Reservior, Brackett Reservoir, Foss Reservoir, Spot Pond, Chestnut Hill Reservoir, or any other lake, pond, reservoir, aqueduct, stream, ditch, water course, or other open waters, used by the Metropolitan District Commission as a source or as a tributary to a source of the water it supplies to the Authority. MGD shall mean million gallons per day. Prevailing rate shall mean that rate annually adopted by the Authority for the sale of water to communities pursuant St. 1984, c. 372, § 10. Safe Yield shall mean the maximum withdrawal rate that can be sustained from a water source with an acceptable degree of risk. Supply analysis shallmeanthe analysis ofa community's present, abandoned and potential new water supply sources based on the criteria set forth for Supply Analysis Reports, as described below at 360 CMR 11.08. Unaccounted-for water shall mean the water that has been delivered to the distribution system but has not been billed to customer accounts or identified as known, unmetered usage. User charge system shall mean a system of charging users of the local water system for services supplied. Water conservation shall mean reduction in water use through the elimination of wasteful or unnecessary water use by the installation of water conserving devices or through technological or behavioral changes, or the detection and repair of leaks. Water conserving device shall mean a fixture that is either adapted to or replaces an existing fixture, and that reduces the amount of water the original fixture required to accomplish its function without impairing the intended function of the fixture. Water management plan shall mean a local water resources management plan prepared using WRC guidelines pursuant to the WRC's Water Resource Management Planning Regulations, 313 CMR2.00. In the event that local water resources management plans are no longer required or approved by the WRC, thenthe adoptionby a community of the water conservation and demand managementmeasures and implementation schedule prepared according to 360 CMR 11.08(3) shall be considered a water management plan. WRC shall mean the Massachusetts Water Resources Commission within the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs.