Environmental & Energy
Dec. 16, 2022
Modernizing water law won’t be easy
If you like practicing in an area of law where you can go to a book and look up the answer, don’t become a water lawyer in California. Change in water, and perhaps in everything, rarely comes except in times of acute crisis. We are in such a period now and have been for over a decade.
In August, Gov. Gavin Newsom released California’s Water Supply Strategy: Adapting to a Hotter, Drier Future. The Proposals in the Governor’s Strategy generally cover five broad areas: 1) create storage space for up to 4 million acre-feet of water, allowing California to capitalize on big storms and store water for dry periods; 2) recycle and reuse at least 800,000 acre-feet of water per year by 2030, enabling better and safer use of wastewater currently discharged t...
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