Welcome to C-WIN’s new web site!

We’ve made the web site work better for us, and more importantly, we look forward to having its new functionality and more attractive look make it more useful for you, our visitors.

With it we kick off our campaign against the 2010 water bond recently passed by the legislature and signed by Governor Schwarzenegger.

We also kick off our campaign for more sensible and cost-effective “Solutions” to California’s water future--cognizant of the many pressures on our rivers and streams and on our economy and government budgets.

We further kick off “C-WIN in Action”--all the ways that C-WIN challenges the major water agencies in California to make sure they abide by laws and regulations intended to protect our environment and economy, like the California Water Code, the California Environmental Quality Act, and other laws.

Like a new house with empty rooms, we’re still moving into this web site as we launch. But we have also managed to expand our content because the “house” itself is larger with more hallways, windows, doors and, we hope, more usefulness to everyone.

Like a good remodel, we’ve modernized--added more imagery, more information, more media capability, and more opportunity for our visitors to engage their local and regional media, their elected representatives, and their local water agencies directly.

With the machinery of government corrupted and tattered, we see the C-WIN web site as a tool Californians can use to democratically influence how our governments treat the rivers and streams and aquifers from which we all get our fresh water.

On behalf of the C-WIN Board, we urge you to vote no on the 2010 water bond next November, and to explore our web site. And please subscribe so that we can invite you back for new information, blogs, trenchant analysis of water politics, and so that you can come back to our new “house” and see our additions, converse and challenge us, and work with us to protect California’s water resources for generations to come.