Capitol Weekly Podcast

California's water future: Chelsea Haines

Episode Summary

Chelsea Haines is the Director of State Regulatory Relations at the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA), the largest statewide coalition of public water agencies in the country. ACWA's 470 public agency members are responsible for 90% of the water delivered to cities, farms and businesses in California. Haines joined us to talk about ACWA's vision for California's future as climate change pushes our water resources to the limit.

Episode Notes

Chelsea Haines is the Director of State Regulatory Relations at the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA), the largest statewide coalition of public water agencies in the country.  ACWA's 470 public agency members are responsible for 90% of the water delivered to cities, farms and businesses in California. Haines joined us to talk about ACWA's vision for California's future as climate change pushes our water resources to the limit. 

3:05 Op Ed Weekly

5:33 Chelsea Haines

7:18 Vision for our water future

13:28 Housing

14:53 Urban-rural divide

18:01 Water rights'

20:03 Conversations with gubernatorial candidates

23:18 Infrastructure

30:14 Sites Reservoir

31:11 #WWCA

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