An overview of how new reporting requirements, frost protection regulations, water curtailments, and some pending litigation could affect water rights

Earlier this year, the U.C. Davis Viticulture & Enology Department held a one-day seminar  on Changing Water Regulations and the Impact on Vineyard Management in California which touched on several topics of interest to small- and mid-sized growers. One of the speakers was Paula Whealan, consulting civil engineer with Wagner and Bonsignore, who gave a presentation on the impacts that new regulations in effect this year could have on growers and their water rights.

Paula Whealan began by saying that she was asked to speak about water rights and the regulatory system, and how the new regulations and changes will affect people’s water rights, but in order to do that, she will need to briefly present the basics of California’s water rights system; Read Here: Maven’s Notebook