ACWA Briefing to Focus on Water Supply Challenges, Opportunities.News Editors/Environment Writers SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 10, 2001 The link between land use and water supply availability is among the topics to be examined at a briefing September 12 at the Westin Horton Plaza, San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. . The event, sponsored by the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA ACWA Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America ACWA Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives ACWA Administrative Careers With America ACWA Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment ACWA American Civil War Association ACWA American Clean Water Association ), will offer insight into a number of changes and opportunities facing water suppliers. It is expected to draw local water agency directors, managers and staff from throughout California. Topping the agenda is the ongoing debate over development and water supply. The issue is the subject of a major bill awaiting final action before the Legislature adjourns September 14. Speakers will include representatives of local government, the California Building Industry Association, American Farmland Trust American Farmland Trust (AFT) is an organization founded to preserve farmland in the United States and to promote sustainable farming practices. Farmers and ranchers founded AFT in 1980, partly in response to the 1979 report of the National Agricultural Lands Study, titled and the California Farm Bureau Federation. The program also includes an update on the energy crisis and the latest on a proposed water transfer between Palo Verde Irrigation irrigation, in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. District and Metropolitan Water District of Southern California The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is the largest bulk water supplier for municipal use in the world. The name is usually shortened to the "Metropolitan Water District" or simply "MWD". . The multimillion-dollar deal will be closely watched as a test case in the large-scale transfer of water from agriculture to other uses. In addition, water managers will hear about new challenges emerging under the Clean Water Act. Speakers will describe new regulatory programs governing pollution, aquatic pesticide use and endangered species endangered species, any plant or animal species whose ability to survive and reproduce has been jeopardized by human activities. In 1999 the U.S. government, in accordance with the U.S. consultations.
WHAT: "Change, Challenge and Choices: What's Ahead for California's
Water Future?"
WHEN: 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., September 12, 2001
WHERE: Westin Horton Plaza, 910 Broadway Circle, San Diego
ACWA is a statewide organization whose 440 public water agencies are responsible for about 90% of the water delivered in California. For more information, visit www.acwanet.com. |
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