how we work

Public Advocacy

We Get to the Root Causes of the Issues, Share What We Find, and Act

C-WIN’s 20 years of collaboration, focus on water issues, and success has built a network of expertise and advocacy like no other.

We identify, design, and partner on research projects.

We publish and distribute information, research, and analysis used by state and local government officials, policy-makers, and partner organizations.
We are a trusted and credible go-to source for the media and the public.

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Recognizing Allies

In 2025, C-WIN established annual awards for Water Reform Advocacy and Communications.

The Dorothy Green Water Equity Award and the Dan Bacher Public Trust Communications Award recognize key figures in the fight for water equity in California.

The awards recognize advocates for water policy reform and journalists who cover the issue; a $1,000 honorarium is included in the journalism award.

“We’ve named these awards after C-WIN’s co-founder Dorothy Green to highlight her illustrious legacy in environmental advocacy, and board member Dan Bacher to recognize his 40 years of dedicated reporting on critical water and fisheries issues,” said Carolee Krieger, the organization’s executive director.

“Dorothy was a seminal figure in the water policy reform movement, and no one has covered the fisheries and water beat more faithfully and for so long as Dan,” Krieger said. “These awards will honor other champions who advocate for equitable water distribution and inform Californians on these critical public trust issues.”

2025 Recipients:
Judy Stewart, Philanthropist
John Earl, Journalist

Papers

Roadmap to California Water Sustainability
Presented to California Undersecretary of Natural Resources Tom Gibson in April of 2019.

The Santa Barbara Report
Using Santa Barbara as a case study, this analysis of State Water Project water deliveries demonstrates how the unreliability and excessive expense of SWP water can bankrupt cities that depend on it. The report was entered into evidence at State Water Resource Control Board Hearings in November of 2017.