Water Committee

Mission

The CCC Water Committee will work to protect California’s lakes, streams, rivers, and all the lives that depend on them. We will advocate for restoring the Bay Delta ecosystem so that it can continue to provide habitat for two-thirds of California’s salmon and half the birds on the Pacific flyway. We will promote water justice for disadvantaged communities and a sustainable water future that assures supplies for California’s families, farms, industries, and wildlife. We will strenuously promote water conservation and advocate for the beneficial uses of said conserved waters.

Co-Chairs    

Charming Evelyn and William Martin

1. San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary
   1. Continue to participate in efforts to stop the Delta Conveyance
   2. Continue to participate in the development of the Bay Delta Plan and champion its implementation
   3. Continue to advocate for biologically sound flow targets in the Bay Delta and the rivers and streams that feed it
   4. Continue to work to restore salmonids to California's streams and rivers
   5. Monitor Senate Bill 72 passed in 2025
2. Continue to participate in the Colorado River Task Force
   1. Monitor the status of the Salton Sea & restoration efforts
3. Increase focus on North Coast rivers
   1. State Water Board decisions regarding Scott and Shasta Rivers may set important precedents statewide
   2. Support Indigenous peoples' effort to restore full flows to the Trinity River
   3. Monitor Potter Valley Project on the Eel River
4. Monitor FERC relicensing process
5. Increase local chapter participation in water committee
6. Survey local chapters to discover their water activists and water issues
7. Elections and Appointments
   1. Recruit and support more environmentally sound candidates for local water boards, both elected and appointed
   2. Interrogate undemocratic structure of California water districts
   3. Increase Sierra Club activity in elections and appointments to regional water boards, agencies and commissions state-wide
8. Monitor how groundwater agencies and the State Water Board are implementing SGMA
9. Support tribes in their efforts to improve beneficial use access to rivers and tributaries
10. Monitor Bureau of Reclamation's operations, especially regarding Shasta Dam
11. Continue working with Sierra Club California staff on state legislation

• Urban water management plans
• Drought and growth
• Water Storage
• Graywater
• Bay Delta Conservation Plan (aka Delta Tunnels)