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Association of California Water Agencies The Association of California Water Agencies is the largest statewide coalition of public water agencies in the country. It’s nearly 450 public agency members collectively are responsible for 90% of the water delivered to cities, farms, and businesses in California.
Association of California Water Agencies Joint Powers Insurance Authority’s (ACWA/JPIA) home page. This site is intended for our members as another source from which they can obtain information about the ACWA/JPIA’s programs and services.
The California Farm Water Coalition was formed in 1989 in the midst of a seven-year drought. CFWC was formed to increase public awareness of agriculture’s efficient use of water and promote the industry’s environmental sensitivity regarding water.
Water Education Foundation The Water Education Foundation is your resource for information about water resource issues.
The Water Page Water is one of our most important resources, as every living thing needs water to survive.
The Family Farm Alliance The Family Farm Alliance is a powerful advocate for family farmers, ranchers, irrigation districts, and allied industries in seventeen Western states. The Alliance is focused on one mission – To ensure the availability of reliable, affordable irrigation water supplies to Western farmers and ranchers.
Maven's Notebook - Your comprehensive source for water news and informaiton
Central Valley Flood Protection Board - The Central Valley Flood Protection Board (CVFPB) is the State regulatory agency responsible for ensuring that appropriate standards are met for the construction, maintenance, and protection of the flood control system that protects life, property, and wildlife habitat in California’s vast and diverse Central Valley from the devastating effects of flooding. CVFPB issues encroachment permits and works with other agencies to improve the flood protection structures, enforces removal of problematic encroachments, and keeps watch over the Central Valley’s continually improving flood management system.
Fresno County Farm Bureau - Fresno County Farm Bureau is a non-profit membership organization founded in 1917 to promote and protect agriculture. As part of a nationwide Farm Bureau network of more than five million members, FCFB provides agricultural advocacy and outreach activities for some of the most productive and efficient farmers in the world. Farm Bureau is part of a grassroots, nationwide network of Farm Bureaus organized on a county, state and national levels. The county Farm Bureau is the center of the organization. It is here that members join by payment of nominal annual dues which entitles them to the wide range of services and member benefits.
Merced County Farm Bureau - Merced County Farm Bureau is an independent, non-governmental, grassroots organization that advocates for approximately 1,000 men and women who provide food, fiber, and nursery products for our community, state, and nation. Merced County Farm Bureau exists for the purpose of improving the ability of individuals engaged in production agriculture to utilize California resources to produce food and fiber in the most profitable, efficient and responsible manner possible guaranteeing our nation a domestic food supply. Merced County Farm Bureau supports policies and legislation that promote and protect our Country's number one industry - agriculture for future generations and the security of our nation.
Department of Water Resources Established in 1956 by the California State Legislature, DWR protects, conserves, develops, and manages much of California's water supply. This includes the State Water Project (SWP), the nation’s largest state-built water conveyance program.
State Water Resources Control Board The State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) and the nine Regional Water Quality Control Boards (Regional Water Boards), collectively known as the California Water Boards (Water Boards), are dedicated to a single vision: abundant clean water for human uses and environmental protection to sustain California's future. Under the federal Clean Water Act (CWA) and the state's pioneering Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the State and Regional Water Boards have regulatory responsibility for protecting the water quality of nearly 1.6 million acres of lakes, 1.3 million acres of bays and estuaries, 211,000 miles of rivers and streams, and about 1,100 miles of exquisite California coastline.
USBR Mid-Pacific Region News The California-Great Basin Region is one of five Reclamation regions across the nation’s 17 western states. It encompasses two-thirds of California, the Klamath Basin, and most of Nevada. The California-Great Basin Region manages one of the nation’s largest and best known water projects—the Central Valley Project—as well as Oregon’s Klamath Project; Nevada’s Newlands, Humboldt, Washoe, and Truckee projects; and Central California’s Cachuma, Orland, Santa Maria, Solano, and Ventura River projects.
San Joaquin River Restoration Program The San Joaquin River Restoration Program (SJRRP) is a comprehensive long-term effort to restore flows to the San Joaquin River from Friant Dam to the confluence of Merced River and restore a self-sustaining Chinook salmon fishery in the river while reducing or avoiding adverse water supply impacts from restoration flows.
San Joaquin River Resource Management Coalition Our goal is to provide a forum for landowners, agencies, and other interested parties to jointly address resource management issues of common interest…..