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31 Ecology L.Q. 117 (2004)
Addressing California's Uncertain Water Future by Coordinating Long-Term Land Use and Water Planning: Is a Water Element in the General Plan the Next Step

handle is hein.journals/eclawq31 and id is 127 raw text is: Addressing California's Uncertain Water Future by Coordinating Long- Term Land Use and Water Planning: Is a Water Element in the General Plan the Next Step? Ryan Waterman* More people, less water: this is the widely anticipated future of the state of California. As the state's population grows to 46 million by the year 2020, California will strive to meet water demand with a reduced water supply from the Colorado River, and struggle with the devastating impacts to the Sierra Nevada snow pack caused by global warming. Yet is California preparing for this future today? Does the law direct land-use planners on the city and county levels to work in concert with their water planning counterparts to prepare for these significant challenges? As concern over these issues has grown, recent judicial and legislative action has added new substantive requirements for land-use and water planning, as well as adding procedural requirements that ask land use and water planners to communicate with one another more consistently. In addition, both the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR) and the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) are currently updating influential reference documents for land use and water planning professionals. * J.D., M.C.P., University of California, Berkeley, 2003; B.S. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 1996. My thanks to Jeff Loux, Antonio Rossman, Tim Duane, Kamyar Guivetchi, Brian Grattidge, Katie Shulte-Joung, Scott Morgan, Randele Kanouse, Glenn Farrel, and Jan Stevens for their expertise and guidance. I benefited from the astute comments of Ed Balsamo, Ralph Battles, Jeff Collum, Caitlin Dyckman, Ellen Hanak, Tom Lauderbach, Anne Schlosser, Doug Waterman, and Kim Waterman. Superb editing by Jessica Owley, Doug Chermak, Beko Reblitz-Richardson, Adrianna Kripke, and Paul Stinson caught many of my errors; those remaining are my own. For their love and support, this Comment is dedicated to my parents, Doug and Donna Waterman, and my wife, Julia Roller.

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