Major Efforts

In recent years Water and Power Associates has broadened its actvities to include regional and statewide water and energy issues. Major efforts have included the following:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Early warnings on California's proposed deregulation of the electric utility industry.

Support for environmentally balanced development of California's water resources including encouragement of the Cal Fed program in the San Francisco Bay Delta and the 4.4 Plan on the Colorado.

Rewrite of the Los Angeles City Charter to strengthen the Department of Water and Power's Commission form of governance.

Opposition to secession from Los Angeles by the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood to preserve historic water rights for all Los Angeles' citizens.