CALIFORNIA WATER SOLUTIONS NOW

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CALIFORNIA WATER SOLUTIONS NOW

• FROM THE
• ENVIRONMENTAL WATER CAUCUS
• 2009

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WHAT WE WILL COVER

• GOALS
• RECOMMENDED ACTIONS
• YOUR ROLE

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Adjust to meet the natural limits of Californias
waters and waterways
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Respect the right to safe, sufficient, affordable
and accessible drinking water
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Recognize ecosystems and the life they support
must have clean water to exist and thrive
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Maximize environmentally sustainable local water
self-reliance
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Respect the needs and interests of California
Tribes
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Projected Water Savings from Efficiency Measures
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Strategic Goal
Implement ecologically sustainable and cost
effective water supply efficiency targets that
reduce demand or increase supply
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Reduce exports from the delta, minimize reverse
flows in the delta, and increase delta outflow
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URBAN WATER USE

• Promote Water Efficiency
• Efficiency Targets In Local Water Budgets
• Stormwater Retention,
• Water Reuse And Conservation
• Require New Housing Developments To Be Water
  Neutral
• Install Urban Water Meters And Implement Strongly
  Tiered Rates
• Reform Water Rights To Reward Efficiency

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AGRICULTURAL WATER USE

• Oppose New Taxpayer Subsidized Dams, And An
  Expanded Shasta Dam
• Measure And Manage Groundwater Statewide
• Reform Water Rights To (Reward Efficiency

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BAY DELTA CONSIDERATIONS

• Reduce Exports and Diversions
• Question/Oppose Peripheral Canal
• Retire Drainage Impaired Lands

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ECOSYSTEMS IMPROVEMENTS

• Ensure Scientifically Determined Stream Flows to
  Support River/Stream Ecosystems
• Support San Joaquin River Restoration
• Provide Fish Passage around Rim Dams

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NEW POLICIES

• Eliminate Contaminated Agricultural Discharges
• Provide Secure Funding for State Agencies That
  Take Care Of Fish and Water
• Improve Delta Governance

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SUMMARY

• GOALS
• RECOMMENDED ACTIONS
• YOUR ROLE

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If water were managed differently better
there would be plenty of water for the state of
California, even with all the people in it now
Dorothy Green (1929-2008)
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California Water Solutions Now
ewccalifornia.org
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EXTRAS
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Strategic Goal Restore instream flows, volumes
and patterns for aquatic ecosystems
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Strategic Goal Integrate floodplains with rivers
and streams
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Strategic Goal Eliminate State and Federal water
deliveries to irrigate drainage-impaired lands
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Peripheral Canal
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Peripheral Canal (Cont.)
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Areas susceptible to flooding with 1 meter
sea-level rise
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Delta Elevations
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Threat of development
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Strategic Goal Retain cold water for fish in
reservoirs for later downstream release
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Strategic Goal Provide fish passage above and
below dams for all at-risk salmonid species
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Strategic Goal
Implement ecologically sustainable and cost
effective water supply efficiency targets that
reduce demand or increase supply
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Upstream Diversions

• 6.7 MAF to the North
• 5.1 MAF to the South
• 0.4 MAF to the West
• 0.8 MAF in Delta
• 13.0 MAF Total

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Household Indoor Water Use
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