Candidate for
Board Member; Coastside County Water District; 4 Year Term

• Sound water policy, like all public policy, begins and ends with people.

• We will resolve our problems only through collaboration, compromise and innovative thinking. Engineering is a means, not an end.

• Cooperation and collaboration produce more effective and longer lasting results than an adversarial approach.

• Solutions are not real solutions unless they are politically acceptable.

• Water demand will always outstrip water supply. Therefore, we should manage our water system for sustainability, treating water as a natural resource rather than as a commodity. This model places a premium on comprehensive planning and management; water quality and reliability improvements; more efficient water use and reuse; water demand management; and increased public participation and education. It does not negate market forces or exclude economic incentives.

• We should first and foremost protect existing water user security, quality, and reliability.

• When we examine infrastructure proposals, we must assure the principles of cooperation, cost effectiveness, environmental sustainability, and equity for all. We should modernize for efficiency and conservation.

• Conservation can cost-effectively stretch uses of available water and help preserve groundwater.