Water 2050: Strategic Planning for Resilient Water Resources - From Vision to Action

Learn how Sonoma Water uses strategic planning, community collaboration, and transparent technology to ensure resilient water resources. Discover a replicable, future-ready approach to environmental stewardship, climate adaptation, and public trust. Join us for practical tools and inspiration. Attendees will leave equipped to adopt a living strategic plan, implement performance dashboards, and engage stakeholders meaningfully, ensuring their agencies are not just prepared for the future but are actively shaping it.

Sonoma County Water Agency’s 2023 Five-Year Strategic Plan prioritizes innovation, transparency, and resiliency across key areas, including infrastructure, environmental stewardship, and emergency preparedness. Recognizing that the future we face is very different from our past, the plan focuses on both the challenges and opportunities presented by climate change, evolving technology, and aging infrastructure. The plan was created with extensive community collaboration, which emphasized a desire for Sonoma Water to continue to conduct its work with a commitment to integrity and transparency. This commitment includes the use of a public dashboard, launched in April 2024, to share progress made against the strategic plan, ensure transparent and data-driven decisions, and help drive the successful implementation of Sonoma Water’s ambitious goals.

This session will explore Sonoma Water’s approach to moving from a reactive to a proactive agency in areas such as critical infrastructure investment, resilience to climate change, and environmental equity. The Sonoma Water team will also speak to how technology is helping support core values such as community collaboration, transparency, and creating a “living” plan, as key pieces to achieving their vision: “Ensuring resilient water resources now and for future generations.”

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