By Rebecca K. O’Connor | Contributing Columnist
Community-based organizations and tribal representatives are gathering perspectives from local communities to address climate resilience.
Rivers & Lands Conservancy was recently invited by the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority to support efforts to develop a “Climate Adaptation and Resilience Plan” for the Santa Ana River Watershed; an area that spans from the mountains in San Bernardino, through the valleys of Riverside, to the coast in Orange County. One of the many goals of the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Plan, also known as “CARP,” is to incorporate local perspectives from people living and working throughout the watershed.
Efforts to develop a CARP for the Santa Ana River Watershed are spearheaded by lead project administrator, Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority.
The Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority formed in 1975 as a joint power authority under California law. It is composed of five member agencies; Eastern Municipal Water District, Inland Empire Utilities Agency, Orange County Water District, San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District, and Western Municipal Water District. The key partnering stakeholders on the project include the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians and the Inland Southern California Climate Collaborative/UC Riverside. Additional groups supporting the CARP include public water agencies, transportation agencies, power providers, tribal communities, and community-based organizations including Rivers & Lands Conservancy, TreePeople, Sierra Club, and Inland Empire Waterkeeper.
Recognizing that climate change has the potential for further impacts for decades to come, the development of the CARP for the Santa Ana River Watershed is a multi-pronged effort. The CARP will identify climate risks and create plans and strategies to address challenges such as drought, wildfire, extreme heat, sea level rise and flooding. Using this information and input from stakeholders, strategies for local and regional adaptation will be developed. This will include a roadmap to implement plans for future collaboration across water, flood, groundwater, quality, forest, ecosystem, and land-use sectors.
The Santa Ana River Watershed CARP is supported by the Regional Resilience Grant Program at the Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, or LCI. The Regional Resilience Grant Program is an initiative of LCI’s Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program, or ICARP, which advances climate adaptation and resilience in California.
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Community members can also answer a quick, five-minute survey to share their thoughts. Rivers & Lands Conservancy will be sharing information and encouraging the community to participate in the survey throughout 2026. We hope you will visit us at events and take a minute to get more information and fill out the survey online.
Find out more about the Santa Ana River Watershed Climate Adaption and Resilience Plan at: sawpa.gov/climate-adaptation-and-resilience-plan/
Participate in the CARP Community Survey: surveymonkey.com/r/BGKYV5P
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