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Summary:
Reform must begin at the top with development of effective water system management that is enforced. Institutional improvements are needed, including ensuring that policymakers and managers have adequate information and resources, providing more integrated and coherent water management at all levels of government, increasing reliance on expert agencies, and developing new mechanisms to help agencies protect the public trust.
Primary Reading:
- Chapter 8, pages 349-374
Video:
- Water Resources Management in the Pajaro Valley, CA (35 min, 2014)
Additional Readings & Videos by Topic:
Adaptive Management
- Jay Lund: California Water Management (Video, 20 min, 2013)
- Adaptive Management Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry (Reading, 2011)
- Drought's No.1 Lesson: Modernize Water Management (Reading, 2014)
Improving Water Governance
- Senator Lois Wolk: Water and the Legislature (Video, 18 min, 2013)
- Felicia Marcus: Convergence or Collision on California's Delta (Video, 50 min, 2013)
- Yurok Stewardship of Klamath's Blue Creek Bodes Well for Fish (Reading, 2014)
Keywords:
Department of Fish and Game, State Water Resources Control Board, California Energy Commission, Interagency Ecological Program, California’s Surface Mining and Reclamation Act, post-1914 appropriative rights, riparian rights, State Water Project, DWR, water market transfers, ESA