C-WIN's Mission:

C-WIN is a non-profit, tax exempt California Corporation that advocates for the equitable and environmentally sensitive use of California's water, including instream uses, through research, planning, public education, and litigation.

C-WIN's Board:

The California Water Impact Network (C-WIN) is uniquely qualified to take a leadership role in building the political consensus needed for a sustainable water future. C-WIN's board of directors include individuals with long histories of activism and a deep knowledge of the history and the policies that make up California's water landscape. They bring years of experience, dedication, and the vital knowledge necessary to achieve a sustainable water future.  They are:

Carolee Krieger, President, was a leader in the campaign to prevent the construction of the State Water Project aqueduct that brings state water to Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties. A sufficient water supply to fill the aqueduct does not exist and the costs were misrepresented by state water proponents. She has also been actively involved in the battle against the Monterey Amendments to the State Water Project that were developed in secret and adopted without all contractors present or signing on in flagrant violation of the law.

Dorothy Green, Secretary, served on the statewide board that directed the fight to stop the Peripheral Canal when it was on the ballot in 1982, and is Founding President of Heal the Bay and President Emeritus of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council. She served as a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Commissioner for three and a half years, and chairs the most important water policy conference in the state, the POWER Conference, now in its sixteenth year.

Jim Edmondson, Treasurer,  was an entrepreneur for the first few of decades of his adult life.  Later, he became Executive Director of CalTrout, a position that he held for 25 years. He is now retired from that demanding job.  He is best known and will be remembered for his work on the Mono Lake lawsuit that led to the restoration of water levels in this natural wonder.

Lloyd Carter was a reporter for more than two decades for United Press International and the Fresno Bee in Fresno and San Francisco. He is best known for his coverage of the bird deformities at the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge in the mid 1980s, for which he won several statewide journalism awards. He continues to write op-ed pieces for California newspapers on water issues and hosts a monthly radio show on San Joaquin Valley and environment issues on public radio station KFCF in Fresno. He is a board member of California Save Our Streams Council, dedicated to protecting Sierra streams, and also serves on the Board of Revive The San Joaquin, a new group dedicated to the restoration of fishery flows on the San Joaquin River. He has been a Deputy Attorney General in the criminal division of the California Attorney General's Office since 1994 and has argued two cases before the California Supreme Court. He formerly taught water law at San Joaquin College of Law.  Read Lloyd's very own blog here.

Malinda & Yvon Chouinard are founders and owners of Patagonia, manufacturer of outdoor clothing. Patagonia is world famous for its outstanding record of environmental sensitivity in all of its production methods, and for donating 1% of sales to support many environmental causes. They have provided the seed money to start the California Water Impact Network.

Joan Hartmann, Treasurer, Ph.D., J.D., currently works as an environmental consultant, serves as the Vice Chair of the Trinity River Adaptive Management Working Group, and is a board member of the California Watershed Network. She began her career in academia, serving as Director of the Public Policy Program at the Claremont Graduate School.  She also served as Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Government at Oberlin College and adjunct professor of Environmental Studies at USC. She has served in government as well, working on Clean Air Act issues with the Congressional Research Service; on coal mining, wetlands, and endangered species issues with the Department of the Interior; and as a Clean Water Act enforcement attorney with U.S.E.P.A. Region 3. She worked for a short time with the American Oceans Campaign and then helped create the Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project, a novel partnership among state and federal agencies, local government, business, and environmental interests.

Michael B. Jackson is a rural Northern California water lawyer-activist who has been water counsel to the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), the Regional Council of Rural Counties (RCRC), and numerous other governmental and environmental entities. He has taken part in numerous State Water Resource Control Board hearings involving most of California's rivers and streams on behalf of fish and wildlife. He has had the opportunity to represent diverse urban and agricultural communities and governmental leaders (Regional Council of Rural Counties) in water and natural resource issues for the last 9 years. He is knowledgeable about watershed management, groundwater, forests, public lands, and politics in both the Republican and Democratic parties at the local, state, and federal levels.

Huey Johnson is an internationally distinguished environmentalist who served as California's Secretary of Resources in Governor Jerry Brown's cabinet. He is a practical visionary who believes that the ecological dilemmas before us are fundamentally solvable. He has served as the Western Regional Director for the Nature Conservancy. In 1972, he founded the national, nonprofit Trust for Public Lands which has protected more than 1.4 million acres in 45 states and grown to be America's fifth largest environmental organization. He brings many years of hands-on experience and is primed for action to solve California's water problems.

Tom Stokely is a Principal Planner with the Natural Resources Division of the Trinity County Planning Department. He has worked on Trinity River and Central Valley Project salmon and steelhead issues for Trinity County since 1989. He has been and continues to be a key player in developing, obtaining approval for, and implementing former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt's 2000 Trinity River Record of Decision to restore the Trinity River's salmon and steelhead fisheries. He has been involved in water rights hearings before the State Water Resources Control Board as an expert witness; he is a member of various advisory committees on salmon and steelhead trout; and he serves on the advisory committee which advises DWR on the expenditure of grant funds related to groundwater investigations and monitoring.