Overview The State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) in May 2016 adopted a new emergency regulation that allowed water utilities to set their conservation standard based upon local…
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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
2016 was a significant year for the Regional Water Authority’s Advocacy Program. Over several years we had set up the structure, identified priorities, set goals and engaged RWA members. This was…
On November 30th, the State of California released it’s public review draft framework document entitled “Making Water Conservation a California Way of Life”. The plan was developed in response to…
Published in the Sacramento Bee on April 20, 2016 By Rob Roscoe, Special to the Bee Water providers from throughout the Sacramento region will urge the State Water Resources Control…
SACRAMENTO–Amy Talbot, Water Efficiency Program Manager for the Regional Water Authority (RWA), released the following statement in response to snow survey results announced today by the California Department of Water…
Region Saves 31 percent June 2015 through February 2016 Twenty Sacramento-area water providers met their state-mandated conservation targets or were very close—within five percentage points—by the end of February, according…
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…
The State Water Resources Control Board adopted a Regional Water Authority proposal to adjust emergency water conservation standards for climate. The adjustment will ease conservation targets for the Sacramento region…
John Woodling, Executive Director of the Regional Water Authority, which represents two dozen water providers in the Sacramento region, issued the following statement regarding draft revised conservation standards issued today…
Published in the Sacramento Bee on Monday, December 7, 2015 By John Woodling, Special to The Bee The State Water Resources Control Board meets Monday on potential changes to mandatory water…
