See how regional collaboration advanced groundwater banking, watershed resilience, legislative advocacy, and water efficiency in 2025. This annual recap highlights the milestones, partnerships, and measurable results that are strengthening 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.
- RWA 2023 Advocacy Program Highlights
- RWA 2025 Legislative and Regulatory Priority and Policy Issues (Approved by the Board on January 9, 2025)
- RWA 2024 Federal Legislative Platform
For information about RWA’s Advocacy Program, contact Ryan Ojakian, Manager of Government Relations.
Legislative and Regulatory News
By Jim Peifer Special to The Sacramento Bee January 23, 2026 • 5:00 AM For generations, Californians have relied on the Sierra snowpack as a critical part of our water…
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Jim Peifer, Executive Director of the Regional Water Authority, which represents nearly two dozen water providers serving 2.2 million people in the greater Sacramento region, issued the following statement in…
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The 2024 Advocacy Program Highlights report is available to download. The report reviews the year’s advocacy priorities, legislative highlights, and outcomes. You can find it here.
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By Jim Peifer, Executive Director With the passage of Proposition 4, the $10 billion Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024, California has…
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SACRAMENTO—Jim Peifer, Executive Director of the Regional Water Authority, representing nearly two dozen water providers serving 2.2 million people in the greater Sacramento area, issued the following statement following the…
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State and local water leaders recently came together to explore strategies for increasing climate change resiliency on a watershed level. Representatives from the Department of Conservation, Department of Water Resources…
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The 2023 Advocacy Program Highlights is available for downloading. The report reviews the year’s advocacy priorities, legislative highlights and outcomes. You can find it here.
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BY JIM PEIFER AND VICTORIA VASQUEZ SPECIAL TO THE SACRAMENTO BEE California officials are preparing new urban water conservation rules intended to help the state adapt to a drier future caused…
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By Joe Mouawad, general manager of Eastern Municipal Water District, and Jim Peifer, executive director of the Regional Water Authority Another wet winter seems likely for California, giving us another…
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