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…
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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.
- RWA 2023 Advocacy Program Highlights
- RWA 2024 Legislative and Regulatory Priority and Policy Issues (Approved by the Board on January 18, 2024)
- RWA 2024 Federal Legislative Platform
For information about RWA’s Advocacy Program, contact Ryan Ojakian, Manager of Government Relations.
Legislative and Regulatory News
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…
RESOLUTION 2021-03 A Resolution of the Regional Water Authority Regarding Extreme Drought Conditions in 2021 WHEREAS, the Regional Water Authority’s (RWA) mission includes protecting and enhancing the reliability, availability, affordability, and…
MEDIA STATEMENT Emergency Declaration Underscores Region’s Drought Concerns, Actions to Protect the Lower American River Sacramento, Calif. – The following statement was released today by Jessica Law, Executive Director of…
Senate Budget Proposal Could Boost Resiliency to Drought and Climate Change in the Sacramento Region Sacramento, Calif. – Jim Peifer, Executive Director of the Regional Water Authority, issued the following…
Federal Affairs Standing Committee Agenda for April 21, 2021
