WELL's DNA
What tool and practice develops new knowledge by receiving information driven by curiosity and incorporating it into your self-interest driven by your current responsibility
Who is the WELL Method of Inquiry?
The month WELL typically hosts the annual conference.
The percentage of the population in California that is Latino.
What is 42%?
The amount of water required to cover an acre of land (an area that is about the size of a football field), one foot deep.
What is acre foot?
A selective, six-month program for local elected Latino leaders that helps participants make an impact on California water policy while addressing individual community water challenges.
What is the WELL UnTapped Fellowship Program?
The difference between a WELLo and a Fellow.
What is a Graduate of the WELL UnTapped Fellowship Program (WELLo) and a current Fellow in the WELL UnTapped Fellowship Program (Fellow)?
The three tenets of WELL.
What is the Water Governance/History, Infrastructure, and Finance?
California made history by becoming the first state in the nation to legally recognize this.”
What is a human right to water?
The water that rests on top of the earth in streams, lakes, rivers, oceans, and reservoirs.
What is surface water?
UnTapped Fellowship graduates (WELLo’s) are inducted into this network, where they can continue to engage in training opportunities focused on California water policy.
What is WELL UnTapped Network?
Four reasons why we work with local elected officials (name 1).
1. Small cities, schools, and water districts lack staff expertise to tackle residents' water challenges. 2. Local elected officials are closest to their constituents. 3. They advocate for local resources. 4. Many Assembly and State Senate members are former local elected officials, so WELL believes they will carry their knowledge into these roles.
The two leadership components in the UnTapped Fellowship program
What is Public Narrative and Method of Inquiry?
On average, this sector accounts for the largest share of California’s water use.
What is Agriculture?
The largest usage of water in households.
What is outdoor water usage?
This groundbreaking study reveals the number of women, Latinos, and People of Color in the C-suite positions and elected board members in the CA water industry
What is the UC Davis/WELL Governance Study?
Full name: Assessing Representation, Access, and Transparency of Decision Makers in California's Water Sector
The number of graduates from the WELL UnTapped Fellowship Program (Best guess).
What is 121 CA Local Elected Leaders?
From the UC Davis/WELL Water Governance Study:
The percentage of Latinos who hold water board member seats in California.
What is 14%
The approximate percentage of water used by California cities and farms that comes from groundwater.
What is 40%?
California law that requires groundwater basins to bring groundwater use into long-term balance
What is the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA)?
When and where will the next Annual Conference be held?
What are March 19 & 20 and Pico Rivera?
The two assembly members who went through the UnTapped Fellowship Program.
Who are Celeste Rodriguez and Anamarie Farias?
From the UC Davis/WELL Water Governance Study:
The percentage of women in water board seats in California.
What is 26%?
This many feet is how high the Edmonston Pumping Plant lifts water over the Tehachapi Mountains.
What is more than 1,900 feet?
A law enacted by the federal government that regulates the nation’s drinking water.
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 (Federal Law)?
This program provides leadership training for mid-level professionals in the water and energy sector.
What is the Educate 2 Lead program?