WELL
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 WELL's UnTapped Fellowship?
This river is the largest in California by volume.
What is the Sacramento River?
California’s largest reservoir by volume.
What is Shasta Lake?
This term describes California’s frequent dry periods.
What is a drought?
This principle governs water rights: "first in time, first in right."
What is prior appropriation?
The year WELL was founded.
What is 2012?
Snowmelt from this mountain range feeds many of California’s reservoirs.
What are the Sierra Nevada?
This system of pumps and canals moves water from north to south.
What is the State Water Project?
Climate change is reducing this crucial snow-based water source.
What is the snowpack?
This 2012 law recognizes access to safe, clean, and affordable water as a human right in California.
What is the Human Right to Water Act (AB 685)?
Victor Griego
What is WELL Board President and Founder.
This aquifer system underlies the Central Valley
What is the Central Valley Aquifer?
The aqueduct that brings water from Owens Valley to Los Angeles.
What is the Los Angeles Aqueduct?
This recurring weather pattern can bring wetter winters to California.
What is El Niño?
This federal act protects the quality of the nation’s surface waters.
What is the Clean Water Act?
Celeste Rodriguez and Anamarie Avila Farias.
Who are the first two UnTapped graduates that will go on to serve in the Assembly? Name One
Imported water from this river system supports Southern California.
What is the Colorado River?
The twin tunnels or proposed Delta Conveyance Project aims to modernize this water hub.
What is the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta?
This federal classification system monitors drought severity.
What is the U.S. Drought Monitor?
This doctrine limits water use to what is “reasonable and beneficial.”
What is the Reasonable Use Doctrine?
The location where WELL's 13th Annual Conference was located.
What is Garden Grove?
This natural feature, once the largest lake west of the Mississippi, is now mostly dry due to water diversions.
What is Owens Lake?
This canal delivers Colorado River water to San Diego and Imperial counties.
What is the All-American Canal?
These sudden downpours can cause floods during dry years.
What are atmospheric rivers?
his landmark environmental law requires environmental review of major water projects.
What is the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)?