Themes of California Water Plan Update: Integrate, Align and Invest

For almost 60 years, the California Water Plan has served as the long-term strategic plan for informing and guiding the sound management and development of water resources in our state. With updates every five years, it remains the single most complete and relevant body of knowledge about statewide water resources. Update 2013 reaffirms the State's commitment to integrated water management. It recognizes and reflects basic facts about today's water situation.

Consistent with State law, the 2013 update of the California Water Plan lays out recommendations, rather than mandates. Based on decades of scientific data and analyses, nearly 40 State agency plans, and the voices of hundreds of stakeholders, it is a tool to guide investment priorities and legislative action to ensure resilient and sustainable water resources moving forward. Update 2013 applies at statewide, regional, and local scales, and serves to advise a diverse audience, including elected officials, planners and resource managers, tribal governments and communities, academia, and the general public.

Speaker: Kamyar Givetchi, Dept. of Water Resources