BY SEAN BIGLEY AND DAN YORK SPECIAL TO THE SACRAMENTO BEE California’s rivers are once again surging with winter runoff, a beautiful sight after several consecutive dry years. Sacramento-area water…
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Advocacy
Representing Regional Needs on Legislative and Regulatory Policies
In 2013, the Regional Water Authority Board of Directors approved a five-year strategic plan. A key component of the plan was advocacy. The Board’s goal: Ensure that regional needs and concerns are positively represented on legislative and regulatory policies and actions. To achieve this goal, RWA launched the Advocacy Program and dedicated resources to a contract lobbyist and staffing for the program. Since 2015, RWA members have worked together to develop the program by creating a structure, identifying priorities, setting goals and engaging members in a vision. In 2016, RWA launched the program on a subscription basis. In 2019, the Advocacy Program embarked as a permanent program offered to members. The transition was testament to the program’s accomplishments and results.
2022 Legislative Session
Please see the current list of bills with a formal position through the link below. Additionally, please check back for updates on these bills, and what the legislative process will look like for the remainder of the 2020 session. Current List of Bills
| SB 1157 Oppose Unless Amended (Coalition Letter) AB 2142 Support (Coalition Letter) AB 2201 Oppose Unless Amended (Letter) Committee Analysis |
AB 2895 Oppose Unless Amended (Letter) SB 222 Support if Amended (Letter) (Proposed Amendments) AB 2449 Support (Letter) |
Read RWA’s Federal Legislative Platform (approved by the RWA Board on January 14, 2021) Read RWA’s Board Approved RWA Legislative And Regulatory Policy Principles (approved by the RWA Board on January 14, 2021) Read the 2021 Advocacy Program Highlights.
For information about RWA’s Advocacy Program, contact Ryan Ojakian, Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Manager.
Legislative and Regulatory News
The recording and fact sheet have been posted for the webinar: The American River Basin Study: Climate Change Impacts and Strategies for Addressing the Weather Extremes that Threaten our Water Supplies,…
Jim Peifer, Executive Director of the Regional Water Authority, which represents nearly two dozen water providers serving 2 million people in the Sacramento region, issued the following statement in response…
By Jim Peifer and David Guy As another serious drought grips California, we are again confronted with hard truths. One is this: California needs more water storage during these challenging…
The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) has announced the award of over $10.3 million in grant funding for two Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) groundwater wells that allow water…
The 2021 Advocacy Program Annual Report is now available and can be found here.
BY THE SACRAMENTO BEE EDITORIAL BOARD Sacramento — which once only had to worry about seasonal floods — now worries each year about delivering water to its citizens in a…
RWA hosted tours of local groundwater and surface water infrastructure for Assemblymembers Cooper and McCarty on January 13 and 14 to advocate for funding for Water Bank projects in the…
BY PATRICK KENNEDY AND ROBERT DUGAN SPECIAL TO THE SACRAMENTO BEE An atmospheric river dumped more than five inches of rain on Sacramento on Oct. 24, breaking a 24-hour rainfall record…
