Celeste Cantú General Manager Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority

Celeste CantúGeneral Manager

Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority

The Promise of IRWMP

Water leaders drive the future

California’s Hydrology is stressed by competing demands.

Global Water Stress & So CA

Four Horsemen of theApocalypse..the herd is growing

Climate ChangeReduced Water from Delta

Colorado River Import Reductions

Reduced Groundwater Recharge

Energy Cost

Fiscal Crisis

Meet Conflict

Conflict Management is key to IRWMP

By partnering with others, water suppliers find win-win solutions.

Plan for Sustainability – not the next grant

1 •Create Anew – OWOW•shared vision and adopting a•new water ethic

2 •Collaboration Across Boundaries Citizens of watershed, •multi-jurisdictional solutions

3 •Adopt Systems Approach –Problems are interrelated, seek synergies, create catalysts

OWOW Guiding Principles

OWOW integrates all aspects of water and every stakeholder.

Water Quality

Improvement

WaterSupply

Reliability

Flood Control and

Storm water Runoff

Environment

& Habitat

WaterRecyclin

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Parks, Recreation & Open Space

Climate Change

Land Use

Environmental justice

Water use

efficiency

Stockholm World Water Week

We have choices to make: It’s time to catch up with the rest of the world

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