MCWRA Welcomes New Member – Urban Water Institute
Mountain Counties Water Resources Association (MCWRA) would like to welcome the Urban Water Institute (UWI) as our newest member.
The Urban Water Institute, Inc., was incorporated as a nonprofit public education organization in the State of California in 1993, with the Mission to provide non-partisan information of timely and pertinent interest to the water resource industry, including public agencies and private firms, with particular emphasis on water economics, management and resource policies as they affect consumers and the general economy.
Board of Directors
The Institute is governed by a volunteer board of 34 directors drawn from hands-on policy makers, elected officials and industry leaders who are active in the water resources industry.
John Kingsbury, MCWRA Executive Director: Together we have been nurturing our urban and rural relationship for the past few years and I am delighted and very excited that the Urban Water Institute has joined our membership. This is significant for our Association. In fact, this is such a good relationship, my Board of Directors authorized MCWRA becoming a member of the UWI. The relationship didn’t happen overnight. It took several trips to southern California, making presentations, meeting with the UWI Board of Directors, a tour of the King Fire for our colleagues from the San Joaquin Valley and southern California, highlighted by a 1/2 day program at the El Dorado Irrigation District. That meeting and the tour program was made possible because of the sponsorship and coordination efforts of our Associate member Gywn-Mohr Tully of Tully & Young and interest and participation by several other partners here in the Mountain Counties. What was significant during the tour that culminated in the 1/2 day meeting was the opportunity for northern CA water managers to network with San Joaquin Valley and southern CA water managers. We connected! We are very much interested in building on our shared interests, raise awareness of those interests, and work together for our common good and that of the state.
UWI program in southern CA on a new way to look at Watershed Management
from left: John Kingsbury, MCWRA Executive Director, Martha Conklin, PhD., Roger Bales PhD, Jim Branham, Executive Officer, Sierra Nevada Conservancy
King Fire Tour
