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6 Environs 1 (1982)

handle is hein.journals/environs6 and id is 1 raw text is: 0 Volume 6, Number 1 February 1982 \ IRO\ I , a non-partisan en ronmental la naltal resources nes,,letter publish- eid I)% Kin1, Hall School of Law, and edited h, the En,.ironmental Lass Societ,., tnser- sift of California. Dasis Designation ot the emploer or other 1thliatrion of the author(s) of an article is o in tiir purposes of identification of the atlfhirirs onl The% ies expressed herein are those of the authors, and do not n,( i sMni reflect the poitron of the I , erits ot California. School ot Lass. tn jronmental La%% So(iets, or of any cnipliset or organi/ation sxith vshrch an ,Ulfi (i at tihated tS'oision1 ot Cornents, [tters to the tdfir,i ind \rl les is encouraged. 'e rit'is' The iIghr to edi and or print these Editorial Staff Editor-in-Chief Michael Endicott Editors Wally Burton Sue Cox Mark Trexler Gabrielle Wirth Production Manager Laura Kosloff Financial Managers C.J. Golden Gail Klein Art 1. Hanlon Staff Hugh Barroll Elliot Block Corey Brown Gerri Carr Judy Clark Gerald Hobrecht Lynn Hutchins Clancy Nixon David Preiss Maureen Summers Faculty Adviser Harrison C. Dunning COp)nigh, ' Iehruar, 1912, Enronmcntal LA%, S.oet 0 I The California D Water Conservation I1 Initiative Striking a balance between conservation of California's water resources and development of those resources appears to be a key goal of the drafters of an initiative measure just submitted to the Attorney General of California. The measure would enact the Water Resources Conservation and Efficiency Act, a far-reaching plan with four central provisions. First, the Act would require interbasin transferors of large amounts of water to submit plans for water conservation to the State Water Resources Control Board. Second, the Act would require ground water management of critically overdrafted areas. Third, the Act, for the first time, would allow the Board to accept applications for instream appropriation without requiring diversion or control of water or both. Finally, the Act would provide limitations on the impoundment of water behind the New Melones Dam. The process of qualifying the initiative should be underway before the end of November, 1981, according to a press release from the Cali- fornia Water Protection Council. The Council will work to collect the required 340,000 signatures before the end of April, 1982. After qualification, the Council plans to work for passage of the initiative in the November, 1982, general election. The Council and the ad hoc group who drafted the measure are made up of individuals who have divergent points of view about the water problem in California, but who, according to Harrison C. Dun- ning, law professor at U.C. Davis and a drafter of this measure, are in agreement that: Water management has become a source of growing concern in California in recent years. Yet, the Leg- islature has not been able to enact the major reforms needed to achieve a more balanced management of our water resources. The pressures on the Legisla- ture in its attempts to deal effectively with this issue would indicate that there is no reasonable hope for meaningful legislative remedy in the foreseeable future. Thus the drafters concluded that a water conservation measure was needed to resolve the competition for water between urban communi- ties, agriculture, industry, and recreation, and to manage water for present and future needs. (See CONSERVATION, page 7)

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