Registration is now open for our next slate of spring programs, part of a year packed with engaging tours, workshops and conferences on key water topics in California and across the West.

Seating is always limited for our events and tickets for our first water tour of 2025 – along the Lower Colorado River in March – have been going fast!

Current Foundation member organizations receive access to coveted sponsorship opportunities for our tours and events, all of which are prime networking opportunities for the water professionals in attendance! Contact Nick Gray for more information.

Water 101 Workshop: April 10

One of our most popular events, the Foundation’s annual Water 101 Workshop – The Basics & Beyond is hosted at McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento and covers the history, geography, and legal and political facets of water in California. It serves as a great statewide primer on California’s most precious natural resource for water agency staff, engineering and environmental consultants, city council members, county supervisors, legislators, legislative staff, press, advocates, attorneys, environmentalists, public interest organizations, water district directors and others.

Workshop participants are invited to join an optional watershed tour April 11, the day after the workshop. Follow the complicated story of a drop of water as we journey from the foothills of the Sierra Nevada along the American River to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta with Foundation staff and other water experts. Get more details and register here!

Central Valley Tour: April 23-25

Our annual Central Valley Tour travels the length of the San Joaquin Valley to explore the challenges of sustaining one of the nation’s most productive agricultural regions that relies on imported surface water and diminishing groundwater. You’ll hear directly from farmers, water managers, disadvantaged communities and others about how they’re meeting the challenges of floods and drought, decreasing water quality, farmland conversion for urban growth and requirements under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. Get more details and register here!

Bay-Delta Tour: May 7-9

Our most popular annual tour, the Bay-Delta Tour ventures into the most critical and controversial water region in California, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The state’s two large water systems – the State Water Project and the federal Central Valley Project – convey water through the 720,000-acre network of islands and channels that, along with San Francisco Bay, are important ecological resources. You’ll hear experts discuss the issues and controversies surrounding this important resource, farmers who grow produce and environmental and fishing groups that are trying to bolster declining fish populations. Registration opens February 12!