Capitol Weekly and the University of California, UC Center are sponsoring their third annual conference devoted to California water policy.

The day-long Water: 2016 in Sacramento on April 28 will be filmed for broadcast by the California Channel. Register here to take advantage of discounted prices that end after Monday.

Jennifer Bowles, executive director of the Water Education Foundation and veteran journalist, will be moderating a panel examining storage and related issues. Other panels will focus on political forces at play shaping policy, project costs and the Delta tunnels.

John Laird, Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency, will be the keynote speaker.

Other confirmed participants include Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman; Timothy Quinn, Association of California Water Agencies; Tom Birmingham, Westlands Water District; Paul Wenger, California Farm Bureau Federation; Rogene Reynolds, former president, Restore the Delta; and Roger Patterson, Metropolitan Water District.

Other moderators include Chris Austin of Maven’s Notebook; Dan Morain, Sacramento Bee and Ben Bradford, Capital Public Radio.