Water Summit: October 30

You can now register for the Water Education Foundation’s 40ᵗʰ annual Water Summit! The one-day conference will feature leading policymakers and experts sharing the latest information and insights on water in California and the West. The event includes lunch and an evening reception for networking with speakers and fellow attendees from a variety of backgrounds.

The Water Summit will be held Wednesday, Oct. 30, in Sacramento, with the theme, Reflecting on Silver Linings in Western Water. Speakers and conversations will focus on the promising advances that have developed from myriad challenges faced in managing the West’s most precious natural resource.

The Water Summit is an ideal event for water district managers and board members, state and federal agency officials, city and county government leaders, farmers, environmentalists, attorneys, consultants, engineers, business executives and public interest groups. Register here!

MEMBER DISCOUNT! Both individual and organizational Foundation members receive a $100 discount on registration for this event. Not a member? Become a member now to receive the registration discount in addition to all the great benefits of Foundation membership!

Northern California Tour: October 16-18

The bus is already nearing capacity for our popular, three-day Northern California Tour that journeys across the Sacramento Valley from Sacramento to Redding with visits to Oroville and Shasta dams!

Experts will talk about the history of the Sacramento River as the tour winds through riparian woodland, rice fields, wildlife refuges and nut orchards.

Tour participants will learn firsthand how the Park Fire, California’s fourth-largest wildfire in history, could push already threatened Chinook salmon populations closer to extinction by burning through tributary watersheds to the Sacramento River that provide critical spawning habitat.

Stops include Oroville and Shasta dams, Red Bluff Fish Passage Improvement Project, rice farms, Clear Creek Gorge, Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District and Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge. Don’t miss out; grab your ticket here while they last!

Foundation Resources for Summer Reading

In the dog days of summer, you can stay in the know of important developments in water by signing up for our weekday newsfeed, Aquafornia.

You can also check out our online water encyclopedia and order any one of our Layperson’s Guides to key water topics. Our most recent updates include guides on the Colorado River Basin and the Klamath River Basin, where the nation’s largest dam removal project is nearing completion.