The Pacific Institute’s new report and video, California Farm Water Success Stories, analyzes successful examples of sustainable water policies and practices to demonstrate how innovative growers and irrigation districts are already beginning to move California toward more equitable and efficient water management and use. These practices are making a difference and there are steps, both in policy and on-the-ground, that can to help further them. Viable alternatives to traditional approaches can help California meet today’s water management challenges.
Integrating practices in these success stories into long-term policy and planning could lead to a very different California—one where efficient, equitable, and sustainable water uses are the norm, rather than the dream. Report cover photo by Dave Feliz, California Department of Fish and Game
TO SEE MORE VIDEOS -- with extended interviews with California growers and water managers -- click here.
-Dale Huss, Sea Mist Farms
-Marcos Hedrick, Panoche District Water Master
-Craig McNamara, Sierra Orchards
-Tom Rogers, Almond grower
-Karen Ross, Past President, California Association of Winegrape Growers
Watch an earlier video to learn more about Sierra Orchards in Winters, California -- one of the early adopters of water conservation and efficiency practices featured in this report.
Read the transcription of the extended interview with Craig McNamara (PDF).
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