Waterscape International Group

By Randolph B. Flay

California’s approach to managing water faces new demands in the form of rising urban populations, new legal protections for endangered species and water quality, and a $28 billion per year agricultural industry. These new demands exist in an inflexible allocation system based largely on unquantified and unclear entitlements to surface water and groundwater, and in a time when new, on-stream surface storage projects go without consideration.