ca.statewater – excerpt – (interactive map)
Interactive map showing California’s water supply.
THE RIGHT TO BEAR KNOWLEDGE
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.”
Peter Drucker
The primary challenge with water in California is not its scarcity, but rather how we manage it. Many experts have mutually concluded, that a major first step to improving our management of water is by reforming how we account for it. Whether a lack of adequate statements of diversion for surface and subsurface waters, or the existence of a fine grained environmental monitoring network, it is clear that we could do a better job of recording and measuring. New instruments and institutions are necessary to accomplish this. It is not a question of technology, but one of techniques. The technology is available and affordable, but the institutions and practices of how we measure and document our water resources are not fully mature. We must get control of our understanding of what is in the system at any given point. We owe it to ourselves, our economy, and our ecosystem. This effort benefits all stakeholders.
http://projects-ca.statewater.org/water-rights
Supported by PATAGONIA, INC. a California B Corp
