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…
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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
On February 1, 2019 the Water Resources Control Board accepted comments on their draft water affordability report issued as required by AB 401 (Dodd, Chapter 662, Statutes of 2015). The…
The Regional Water Authority (RWA) is pleased to announce that Ryan Ojakian has joined as Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Program Manager. Ojakian brings more than a decade of experience working…
The Regional Water Authority joins more than 200 water providers, cities, business organizations and others to oppose Senate Bill 845 by Sen. Bill Monning, a newly amended proposal to add…
Below are links to presentations from the March 15, 2018 symposium on Making Safe, Clean, Affordable and Accessible Water a Reality in California. You can read an overview of the event…
SACRAMENTO—A capacity crowd of leaders from state government, local water providers and the non-profit sector came together on March 15 in Sacramento at a symposium to explore the challenges and…
PLEASE JOIN US FOR A SYMPOSIUM ON Making Safe, Clean, Affordable and Accessible Water a Reality Thursday, March 15, 2018, 8:30 a.m. to noon at the Capitol Event Center at the…
The February 2018 issue of the RWA Update is now available online. Read about the March 15 Symposium on Making Safe, Clean, Affordable and Accessible Water a Reality, the Regional…
2017 was a significant year for the Regional Water Authority’s Advocacy Program that represented the culmination of a five-year process initiated by the RWA Board of Directors in 2013. A…
View the event summary video here. Prospects for fall-run Chinook salmon, born during the height of California’s historic drought, are greatly improved because of the efforts and collaboration by local,…
