2. 2011(estimated)1991
552 TAF
(95%)
285 TAF
(47%)
231 TAF
(30%)
Total = 578 TAF
Total = 779 TAF
2020
Total = 611 TAF
Metropolitan Water District
Imperial Irrigation District Transfer ; All American & Coachella Canal lining;
Recycling; Seawater desalination; Groundwater, Local surface water, and
Conservation
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3. Strong proponent and leading voice advocating for a
Delta fix
Key player in passage of 2009 Comprehensive Delta
policy legislation
◦ Co-equal goals of water reliability and environmental
restoration
Successful implementation rests on viable financing
plan and firm financial commitment to pay
2012 Legislative Policy Guidelines
Draft Delta Policy Principles reviewed last month
◦ Five focus areas
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4. Continued support of co-equal goals
Support process that ensure meaningful dialog with all
stakeholders to reduce future conflicts and challenges
Provide regulatory certainty and predictable supplies
Encourage a solution that integrates and supports local
resources development
Improve ability to divert water from Delta during wet
periods
Encourage the development of a statewide water transfer
market
Provide improved coordination between SWP and CVP
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5. Restore the Bay-Delta ecosystem so species
listed under Federal or State Endangered
Species Act are no longer threatened or
endangered
Work with all stakeholders to ensure
ecosystem restoration issues are addressed in
open and transparent process
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6. Encourage projects and actions that are cost-effective
Require total cost of Delta solution be identified before
financing and funding decisions are made
Seek and support financial analyses of Delta solution
including ability to pay
Allocate costs proportionally to benefits received
Require firm financial commitment (take-or-pay, or legal
equivalent) by water contractors and their member agencies
to pay for fixed costs
Condition financial support on contracted access to facilities
Use public funds to support actions that protect and restore
environment and provide broad-based public benefits
Oppose water user fees to fund non-water supply
improvements in Delta that benefit the public
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7. Require independent technical analysis of key
elements to ensure solution realistically matches
statewide needs
◦ Demand forecast
◦ Size and cost of conveyance facility
Support “right-sizing” of facilities to match firm
financial commitments to pay for the solution
Allow access to all SWP facilities to facilitate
transfers
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8. Support continued state ownership and
operation of SWP as public resource
Support improved efficiency and transparency
of all SWP operations
Oppose transfer of operational control of SWP
or any of its facilities to any special interest
groups to ensure SWP continues to be a public
resource
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9. Adopt Delta Policy Principles as presented
in February 15, 2012 board letter
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