1. How is Conservation Going to Be a Way of Life? Who is Really in Charge?
Remleh Scherzinger P.E., MBA
Nevada Irrigation District
General Manager
Proudly serving portions of Nevada, Placer, and Yuba Counties since 1921

2. Factors Facing Water Suppliers today
Climate Change
80% less snow pack
Population
51M by 2060 CADoF
Water Rights Philosophy
Communal view of water
Expanding Environmental Demand
Protection of Environmental spaces and assets
Ag vs Urban
Priority of water use

3. Conservation Conservation is one of the many tools we have.
Changed “water use paradigm”
How it is used
How it is valued
Conservation and Efficiency
Local response to conservation is always better when we lead by example and not with a stick

4. Climate Climate Science is Predicting Drought vs Climate Change
80% less Snow pack
Shorter more intense rain events
Mid Alpine max - Upper Alpine to suffer
Shift of the peak storage event (June – March)
Longer / prolonged dry periods
Drought vs Climate Change
Temporary and Permanent impacts
Climate change is a supply side impact
* Our goal is to maintain service levels requested by our community

5. Water Supplier Diversity
One Size doesn’t fit all
Finances
Funding and funding priority must be set locally
Climate
Climate impacts will be different throughout the state
Systems
Local systems are not all equal
Community
Unintended consequences to the fabric of our community

6. Water Rights Human Right to water Priority System must remain intact
Health and Safety through community planning
New Supply/Building & Zoning Reg’s/Market Mechanisms
AB 685 affirms California’s commitment to ensuring affordable, accessible, acceptable and safe water sufficient to protect the health and dignity of all its residents.
SWRCB 2016 Resolution
Priority System must remain intact
Pre & Post 1914
Urban impacts on rural water users
Reallocation model
Supply and (not vs) Demand side solutions

7. Local Authority Community can better balance its needs
Supply & Demand
Ground water vs Surface water management
Bottom-up System vs Top Down System
Local focus
Reactive or Proactive

8. Regulation or Community Support
Legislation
Should not Surrender of Statutory Authority to Regulators
Must have legal review even in Emergency
Any legislation should have direct benefit to end user
Impacts
Quality of Life /Economic Development/Environment
UWMP 20x2020, Community General Plans,
Modify for Sustainability

9. Incentive Based Systems
Watershed care and Improvement
Meadows
New Storage & Improved Groundwater systems
Centennial Reservoir
WPSGA
Desalination
Conservation
Local programs
Efficiencies
Treated & Raw

10. Thank you www.centennialreservoir.org Remleh Scherzinger P.E., MBA
General Manager
“We are only as effective as the relationships, credibility and trust we have with our community” Jim McDonnell