If you haven’t watched Season 3 of the Amazon original series Goliath you should. Starring Billy Bob Thornton, the series dramatizes the baroque ways control of water matters to California, the 4th largest GDP in the world.
The series:
https://www.amazon.com/Goliath-Season-3/dp/B0875SBRGZ
Water, water, and nary a drop to drink. Water is at the heart of several megatrends. Whether looking at specific trade rags such as Water Rewsolur5ces Journal and the article, Impacts of megatrends on the global water landscape, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07900627.2018.1429905 or bumping up the perspective to articles like the “Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds a publication of the National Intelligence Council” at https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/GlobalTrends_2030.pdf we can see that practically every megatrend list has Water and its scarcity as a core function of the future.
Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds a publication of the National Intelligence Council
Considering the central California “inland empire” produces most of the US’ domestic food, and most of the water in the inland empire resides in the Delta, one can come to the conclusion that the most powerful waterboard in the world is the Sacramento Valley River Board inclusive of what is commonly called the “delta.”
The waterboards across the state of California are visible here: https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterboards_map.html
The Restore the Delta organization has, in my opinion, all the best high level info about the delta, including fast facts for fighting off recent legislation to stop the abuse of the delta via the “stop the tunnels project.” Restore the Delta: https://www.restorethedelta.org/more-about-the-delta/ . The news is the news and many eyes are on what will happen even though the two tunnels project has halted: https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/magazine/entry/life_amid_the_levees.
Discovery Bay is at the south edge of the delta which is at the north end of the inland empire. And because of its dependency on the delta’s naturally flowing water for both local ag and for local recreation economies the state’s “Waterfix” programs keep the region on high alert.
Waterfix: https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/california_waterfix/
So much so that a “Watermaster” has been appointed Czar of the Delta water – a one of a find state-level appointment: https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/delta_watermaster/ … One might argue the most powerful person overseeing water in the world is the California Delta Watermaster. My next goal is to interview the California Delta Watermaster, Michael George:
https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/delta_watermaster/m_george.html.
Notes;
After you have watched Goliath season 3 check out the related doc like The Longest Straw –
http://www.thelongeststraw.com/