Financial Information - Santa Clara Valley Water District. SCVWD Current Adjusted Map District 2. Board Governance Policies - Santa Clara Valley Water District. The Board of Directors of the Santa Clara Valley Water District has adopted the following Board Governance Policies.
These policies describe the following: Governance Process - how the Board conducts its businessBoard-BAO Linkage - Board's delegation to the Board Appointed Officers (BAOs: Chief Executive Officer, District Counsel, Clerk of the Board and District Auditor). Ends - what the Board has directed the BAOs to accomplish Executive Limitations - boundaries set by the Board stating what the BAOs cannot do to accomplish the Board's Ends BAO/CEO Interpretations - the CEO's reasonable interpretation regarding accomplishing the Board's Ends without exceeding set boundaries To download a copy of the Board Governance Policies, click on the subject title from the list at the right side of the page.
The Big Water Projects in California. California has two gigantic water development systems which capture and store water with many dams and use rivers and canals to redistribute it, generally from Northern California sources (or "areas of origins") to the San Joaquin Valley agricultural users and southern California cities—same as today.
They are: Collapse of Delta fish populations in the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary has accompanied operation of these enormous water systems. Their export of water is premised on magical thinking by state water industry officials and regulators. These water projects have low priority water rights, which were acquired starting only in the 1920s and 1930s.