1. View From Sacramento Senator Fran Pavley Nature Needs Water Too The Los Angeles & San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council & The Aquarium of the Pacific October 22nd 2009

2. 3 Major State Water Issues  Climate Change  Drought  Delta

3. The Climate Is Changing

4. And The Water Picture Is Changing  More Rain – Less Snow  Earlier Snow Melt  More Variability – Wet/Dry  More Extreme Events – Floods/Droughts  Unknown Impact On Total Precipitation Bottom Line: Past Is Not A Guide To Future Events

5. Three Years Of Drought... And Counting?

6. Even If Rains, We Are In A Hole

7. Delta Is Not Meeting The Needs of Anyone

8. 64% Chance of Multiple Levee Breaks Within Next 50 years

9. Legislative Response

10. Package of Bills To:  New Delta Stewardship Council  New Delta Plan  New Delta Conservancy  Refocused Delta Protection Commission  New Delta Watermaster  New Water Conservation Requirements  Improved Water Rights Reporting/Enforcement  New Statewide Groundwater Monitoring  New Funding Sources – Bonds? Fees?

11. This Will Help, But Not Solve, LA Region Water Problems  Climate Will Continue To Change  Drought May Become New Normal  “Fixing” The Delta Will Take Decades

12. And, Something Unexpected Will Happen  Earthquake  Catastrophic Fire  Severe Storms/Floods  Tsunamis  Toxics

13. So, What Should We Do?

14. Improve Regional Self-Sufficiency  Clean-Up Groundwater Basins  Increase Groundwater Storage  Capture & Reuse Stormwater  Recycle  Tiered Water Rates  Source Water Protection  Conservation

15. There Is Still Much We Can Do

16. Including Restoring The LA River

17. “Anne Frank said, ‘How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.’ I agree. Let's start now.” Dorothy Green, “A heartfelt plea for a sensible water policy,” LA Times, October 8, 2008