By Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center The reason to socialize a portion of the cost of major infrastructure is so the ratepayer doesn’t have to bear an unaffordable share of the construction...
By:Shivaji Deshmukh, General Manager, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and Valerie Pryor, General Manager, Zone 7 Water Agency Assembly...
State legislators must vote down AB 2215 By Max Gomberg, Senior Policy Analyst, California Water Impact Network When a government agency demands special treatment to expedite “critical” projects, we should be skeptical. Invariably, the claimed need benefits a politically powerful industry that...
By Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center When choosing what policies and projects might best ensure abundant water for California’s ecosystems, farms, and cities, the role of the delta is central. Even if...
Commentary by Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center For most of the previous century, Californians successfully designed and built big water infrastructure. In sixty years, from 1910 through 1970, we built the most...
The courts, project costs, and political realities are combining to sink the DCP From the California Water Impact Network: In recent testimony before the State Water Board, the General Manager of the Zone 7 Water Agency—which serves the Silicon Valley...
