Tag: Dave Owen
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Rethinking Western Cities and Water
By Dave Owen . . . The popular mythology of water management often treats cities as the bad guys. We tend to condemn those cities–often in colorful terms–for their avarice, arrogance, and power, and those narratives have policy consequences. But they often miss the mark. One of the oldest truisms of western water is that…
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Lessons for SGMA from other State-Local Collaborations
by Dave Owen California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act is known primarily for establishing statewide requirements for sustainable groundwater management. But the statute did another important thing: it introduced an intriguing yet relatively rare model of state and local governance into groundwater management. Typical state and local governance models involve delegating authority to local governments, with…