Adopt policies to prioritize local investment in wastewater recycling, stormwater capture, water efficiency, and groundwater remediation before permitting more impactful options like ocean desalination, dams, and diversions.

Advance a $15B Water Bond to invest in local, multi-benefit regional water resiliency projects.

Adopt plans that include science-based instream flow requirements that are designed to achieve endangered species recovery and protect instream beneficial uses. These instream flow requirements should prioritize historically over-diverted waters, including the Bay-Delta, the Colorado River, and Mono Lake/Owens Valley.

Set enforceable agricultural discharge limits for nitrates to protect drinking water in farmworker communities. Create a Low-Income Rate Assistance program to provide affordable drinking water to all Californians.

Oversee progress toward sustainable groundwater management to ensure all basins are on track to meet the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act’s (SGMA) 2040/2042 deadlines. Ensure County oversight of groundwater pumping – independent of SGMA – to protect the public trust of local waterways. Modernize the state’s understanding of the groundwater-surface water connection with increased monitoring, modeling, and reporting.

• Protect human health from emerging toxic chemicals – Rapidly develop water quality monitoring standards for emerging contaminants (e.g. PFAS, 6PPD, fire retardants), and develop new water quality standards for those contaminants, including phase out of PFAS products.
• Address the Tijuana crisis – Advance/support legislation to allocate border crossing fee revenue to fund Tijuana River infrastructure and restoration projects, and coordinate with local government to address air pollution public health impacts affecting south San Diego County communities.
• Elevate stormwater as a resource through public–private partnerships – Establish a statewide Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Stormwater Permit that drives Clean Water Act compliance and incentivizes collaborative investment in green infrastructure to capture, treat, and reuse stormwater.
• Green our schoolyards – Incorporate K–12 campuses into the state’s stormwater program. Create incentives for permittees to install nature-based solutions on school grounds that capture runoff, cool schoolyards to enhance learning, and create public greenspace in park-poor communities.

• Combat coastal acidification and hypoxia – Establish enforceable statewide water quality standards that limit nutrient pollution from wastewater discharges and protect coastal ecosystems and communities.
• Achieve 30×30 in our oceans – Create water quality protections (i.e. Areas of Special Biological Significance) for all Marine Protected Areas in the state.
• Standup against new offshore oil – Protect against new and expanded federal offshore oil drilling along the California coast.

• Set healthy river flow requirements – Implement instream flow requirements for priority watersheds in the California Salmon Strategy that protect Tribal, recreational, and ecological uses. Requirements shall be sufficient to achieve recovery of endangered species and protect Tribal beneficial uses of instream flows.
• Reconnect rivers to floodplains – Relocate or remove levees and create riparian setbacks to enhance flood protection, improve water quality & supply, create habitat, increase groundwater recharge, and help facilitate dechannelization.
• Establish a statewide “Forest-to-Flows” program – Restore one million acres of priority headwater forests by 2035 to measurably increase late-season streamflow, improve instream habitat for native fish, and reduce catastrophic wildfire risk.
• Make it “safe to swim” for all California communities – Create a freshwater beach access program to create more public access to freshwater areas and monitor these areas to protect public health.

Reform Water Board appointments to ensure each Water Board has an environmental justice and/or Tribal representative and create a biological representative on the State Water Board by merging the two engineer seats.

Ensure California’s waters are protected from the Trump Administration by enshrining pre-existing clean water protections into state law (ex: Pre-Sackett WOTUS Rule, federal Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act requirements & the Roadless Rule).

Correct historic inequities caused by state-sanctioned acts inflicted upon all California Native American Tribes by acknowledging Tribes were the first people to put water to a beneficial use for food and cultural practices in the state and thus establish instream water rights and tribal beneficial uses accordingly; Prioritize development of Tribal Beneficial Uses and support Tribal-led stewardship and co-management of rivers and watersheds.

Support a constitutional amendment to allow water agencies to establish low-income ratepayer programs, to set water conservation pricing and to move stormwater into the utility exception.

Ensure clean water permits are enforceable; establish a robust enforcement strategy that includes enhancing citizen enforcement; make corporations pay their fair share of cleanup that includes re-investment to impacted communities.