Despite recent political posturing over water management in California, the state’s top water official says her agency is working closely with the federal government to maximize long-term water resilience for people and farms. Karla Nemeth, director of the California Department of Water Resources, asserts officials from the State Water Project and federal Central Valley Project communicate daily, and sometimes even hourly, to calibrate water movement through the state’s elaborate but aging system of canals and reservoirs. She said improving conveyance and storage with projects such as Sites Reservoir, the proposed Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta tunnels and groundwater recharge will provide agriculture with a more reliable water supply. “There’s a lot happening in water management in California and Washington, D.C.,” Nemeth said recently at the American Pistachio Growers’ annual conference in Monterey, Calif. “In a lot of ways we’re aligned, regardless of what you see in the press.”