Seizing the Drought: Water Priorities for Our Changing Climate
November 15-17, 2021 • 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. PT
SUMMIT RECORDINGS:
Session 1: Making Our Water Infrastructure Climate-Ready
Session 2: Paying for Water System Resilience
Session 3: Embracing Transformative Change
ONLINE ONLY
Please register in advance.
About the Program
The PPIC Water Policy Center will convene a diverse group of experts to discuss how to tackle the highly disruptive effects of climate change on our water system. It’s clear that we must step up our game to cope with the increasingly severe, warm droughts that are coming our way. This year’s conference will identify immediate actions we can take to boost the state’s resilience.
Sessions
November 15: Making Our Water Infrastructure Climate-Ready
November 16: Paying for Water System Resilience
November 17: Embracing Transformative Change
All sessions scheduled from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. PT
Participants
Don Cameron, vice president and general manager, Terranova Ranch
Celeste Cantú, chair, San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board
Alvar Escriva-Bou, senior fellow, PPIC Water Policy Center
E. Joaquin Esquivel, chair, State Water Resources Control Board
Andy Fecko, general manager, Placer County Water Agency
Ali Forsythe, environmental planning and permitting manager, Sites Project Authority
Letitia Grenier, resilient landscapes program director, San Francisco Estuary Institute
Adel Hagekhalil, general manager, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Ellen Hanak, center director, PPIC Water Policy Center
Rosemary Menard, interim city manager, City of Santa Cruz
Jeffrey Mount, senior fellow, PPIC Water Policy Center
Alesandra Nájera, program officer, Water Foundation
Karla Nemeth, director, California Department of Water Resources
Caity Peterson, associate center director, PPIC Water Policy Center
Tim Ramirez, board member, Central Valley Flood Protection Board
Daniel Swain, climate scientist, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA
