Sacramento, Calif. – The following statement was released today by Jim Peifer, Executive Director of the Regional Water Authority, and Tom Gohring, Executive Director of the Water Forum, in response…
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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
RWA Federal Affairs Standing Committee Agenda for July 15, 2020 Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone. https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/651299773 You can also dial in using your phone. United…
The need for increased investment in the infrastructure that supplies safe, clean, and reliable water has never been more critical. Just as COVID-19 is the most severe and disruptive health…
Federal Affairs Standing Committee Agenda for June 17, 2020
Federal Affairs Standing Committee Amended Agenda for May 27, 2020
The Regional Water Authority Federal Legislative Platform was approved by the Board on March 19, 2020.
The 2019 Advocacy Program Report is now available for downloading. The report reviews the year’s advocacy priorities, legislative highlights and outcomes. You can find it here.
The Regional Water Authority, which represents more than two dozen water providers and affiliates in the greater Sacramento region, issued the following statement regarding the executive order from Governor Gavin…
On February 19, 2019 the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) accepted comments on their draft “Framework and Tool for Evaluating California’s Progress in Achieving the Human Right to…
