The complex legal and regulatory framework for allocating water in California will be the topic of discussion at a symposium at Cal State San Bernardino’s Palm Desert Campus on Wednesday, May 4.
The symposium will take place from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. in the campus’s Mary Stuart Rogers Gateway Building, Room 205, at a cost of $59 per person.
Topics of discussion include: regional water resources and hydrology, surface water rights, groundwater rights, environmental laws regulating water, the Colorado River Basin and the Salton Sea restoration plans, how California manages its water supply with its extensive water delivery system of dams and aqueducts, and how the system has managed during one of the worst droughts of record. Using actual case studies, the presenter will identify important regional water transfer issues and tribal water rights.
This symposium will be of great interest to water and environmental professionals, those affiliated with a public agency, water district, tribal community, or NGO, or a member of the public with an interest in California’s most precious natural resources.
The symposium presenter, David Sandino, served as chief counsel for the California Department of Water Resources from 2006-2010 under an appointment by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and currently serves as senior staff counsel. He has worked on significant water, environmental, tribal and energy issues during his 20-year career with the department.
Sandino’s teaching portfolio includes water law and environmental law at Texas Tech University School of Law; University of Nevada, Las Vegas; and Santa Clara University School of Law. He also created and teaches courses for environmental professionals on California water law and policy, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and Tribal Water Law. He received a distinguished teaching award from UC Davis for his contribution to natural science education, and received a 1999 Fulbright Fellowship to teach international environmental law at the Moscow State Academy.
To register for the symposium, call (909) 537-5975, e-mail pace@csusb.edu or visit the California Water Law Symposium event page.
The CSUSB Palm Desert Campus is located at 37-500 Cook St.
Located in beautiful Palm Desert, the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus offers bachelor and master’s degrees, a doctorate degree in educational leadership, and teacher credentials and certificates. With more than 1,200 students, it is the only four-year public university in the Coachella Valley and plays a vital role in educating and training the region’s growing population.
For more information about the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus, contact Mike Singer in the campus’s Office of Public Affairs at msinger@csusb.edu or 760-341-2883, ext. 78107 or visit the campus website.