Meet Us Next Tuesday at the Capitol; Sign Up for our Annual Water Summit, Water Leaders Alum Reunion and Our Last Tour of 2022
The team at the Water Education Foundation is gearing up for a busy fall programming season. Check out the details below. We hope to see you at some point!
Workplace Giving, Oct. 4:
The Water Education Foundation will
be among the nonprofits gathered at the west steps of the Capitol
in Sacramento next Tuesday (Oct. 4) to kick off the
Our
Promise workplace giving campaign for state
employees who work at the California Department of Water
Resources, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the
State Water Resources Control Board and other state agencies.
Stop by and meet some of our team during the event, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and learn more about how we carry out our mission.
2023 Water Leader Apps Coming Soon:
Thinking of applying for our next
Water Leaders class? Applications are coming
soon for our 2023 class and will be due in early December. Start
by checking out the program
requirements; make sure you have the time to
commit to the program next year and approval from your
organization to apply.
Water Leaders Reunion, Oct. 26:
We are celebrating the 25th
anniversary of our California Water
Leaders program with a reunion for alumni going
back to the inaugural year of 1997.
Join your fellow Water Leader graduates Oct. 26 for a special event at a rustic, relaxed venue along the American River in Sacramento with lawn games, happy hour, dinner and plenty of social time to catch up with your fellow cohort members and others.
If you went through our Water Leaders program but didn’t receive the email invitation, you can contact Executive Director Jenn Bowles via email.
Water Summit, Oct. 27:
The Water Education Foundation’s
2022 Water
Summit will return in-person on
Thursday, Oct. 27, in Sacramento with
the theme, Rethinking Water in the
West, to engage and inform attendees
with conversations about critical issues affecting water
statewide and across the West.
Now in its 38th year, our premier annual event will gather leading experts and top policymakers to reexamine our relationship with water resources through lively discussions on topics such as the state’s water rights system, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and broad water management ideas including a progress report on compliance efforts with California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.
A full agenda will be available soon, but in the meantime learn more about the Water Summit’s keynote speaker, science journalist and author Erica Gies. She will explore what she calls “Slow Water” innovations that can potentially offer resilience to the increasing severity of droughts and floods brought on by climate change.
The Water Summit is an ideal event for water district managers and board members, state and federal agency officials, city and county government officials, farmers, environmentalists, attorneys, consultants, engineers, business executives and public interest groups. Register here!
San Joaquin River Restoration Tour, Nov. 2-3:
Only a few seats are
left for an opportunity to immerse yourself in the
story of restoring a river’s self-sustaining spring-run chinook
salmon population while also balancing water supply needs
during the return of our 2-day, 1-night San
Joaquin River Restoration Tour Nov. 2-3.
Participants will travel along the river as it weaves across
a historic farming region from Friant Dam near Fresno to the
confluence of the Merced River to learn firsthand about the San
Joaquin River Restoration Program, one of the nation’s
largest and most expensive river restoration projects. A variety
of perspectives on the river’s restoration and how the challenges
of the plan are being worked out will be highlighted. Register
here!