The Passage of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act, 1991-1992
The Metropolitan Water District Perspective
Description:... Joint interview discusses the background of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Water District's (MWD) interest in water marketing and transfers, and water banking; Imperial Irrigation District, Palo Irrigation District, Arvin-Edison Water Storage District, Areias Dairy Farm Transaction; the three-way process, formation of the California and Western Urban Water Coalition; assistance in drafting, lobbying for, passage of the Seymour, Miller-Bradley bills to ensure water marketing; changed relationships with agriculture and environmental communities; analysis of CVPIA implementation and CALFED; MWD board: size, committees, and support for water marketing before and after the passage of the CVPIA.
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