Non Profit Mission Statement
The Urban Water Institute, Inc., was incorporated as a nonprofit public education organization in the State of California in 1993, with the Mission to provide non-partisan information of timely and pertinent interest to the water resource industry, including public agencies and private firms, with particular emphasis on water economics, management and resource policies as they affect consumers and the general economy.

Board of Directors
The Institute is governed by a volunteer board of directors drawn from hands-on policy makers, elected officials and industry leaders who are active in the water resources industry.

John Rossi
Board Chair

Board Member
Rancho California Water District
Phone 951.296.6900

Richard Nagel
Board Vice Chair

Jacobs
Phone 301.217.4211

Ane Deister
Executive Director

Executive Director
Urban Water Institute
Phone 530.863.0750

John Thornton
Board Treasurer & Secretary

Partner
Hunt Thornton Resource Strategies LLC
Phone 714.481.7939

Posthumous Honorary Members Of The Board

An early member of the Orange County Press Club, Clark was a writer and columnist for several newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, before becoming the first public information officer for the University of California, Irvine. He later became executive assistant to a member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors and was president and owner of a public relations consulting firm for more than a decade.

Wayne Clark

Founder
Urban Water Institute
In Memoriam (1928-2018)

Members Of The Board

Dick Ackerman

President
Ackerman Consulting
18101 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 1800
Irvine, CA 92612
Phone 714.322.2710

Jim Atkinson

Director
Mesa Water District
1965 Placentia Avenue
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
Phone 949.631.1205

Alan Boyce

Materra Farming Company

Steve Bucknam

President
Bucknam & Associates
25004 La Plata Drive
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Phone 949.363.6461

Darcy Burke

WaterMark Associates

Shivaji Deshmukh

Inland Empire Utilities Agency
Phone 909.993.1615

Larry Dick

Board Member
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
700 North Alameda Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone 213.446.8715

Randy Duncan

Vice President
Mission Springs Water District
Post Office Box 334
Desert Hot Springs, CA 92240
Phone 760.346.3400

Michael Engelbrecht

Director
Wells Fargo
333 South Grand Avenue, 5th Floor
MAC E2064-058
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Phone 213.614.4475

Sean Fitzgerald

Principal
Agendum Ventures
Phone 714.869.1105

Kathleen Coates Hedberg PE, MPH

Division 4 Director
Helix Water District
Phone 619.994.6900

Kevin P. Hunt, PE
Member Chair

Central Basin Municipal Water District
Phone 714.593.5026

Andree Johnson

Woodard & Curran

Rob Katherman

Water Replenishment District of Southern California
Phone 562.921.5521

John Kingsbury

Executive Director
Mountain Counties Water Resources Association
Phone: 530.957.7879

Art Levine

Long Beach Board of Water Commissioners
1800 E. Wardlow Road
Long Beach, CA 90807
Phone 562.570.2302

Gary Martin

Vice President
Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency
27234 Bouquet Canyon Road
Santa Clarita, CA 91350
Phone 661.297.1600

Mary Aileen Matheis, Esq.

Board Director
Irvine Ranch Water District
15600 Sand Canyon Avenue
Irvine, CA 92618
Phone 949.551.9567

Malissa McKeith

President
CURE (Citizens United for Resources & the Environment)
2873 Rumsey Drive
Riverside, CA 92506
Phone 213.300.3550

Ed Means

President
Means Consulting LLC
2100 Serrano Avenue
Newport Beach, CA 92661
Phone 949.439.9120

Craig Miller

General Manager
Western Municipal Water District
14205 Meridian Parkway
Riverside, CA 92518
Phone 951.571.7242

Greg Newmark

Principal
Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson
633 W 5th Street, Suite 1700
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Phone 213.626.0215

Jim Noyes

Emeritus Member
Phone 626.574.8061
Phone 626.429.4881

Lisa Ohlund

General Manager
East Orange County Water District
185 North McPherson Road
Orange, CA 92669
Phone 714.538.5815

Dave Pedersen

General Manager
Las Virgenes Municipal Water District
Phone 818.251.2100

Mark Pestrella

Director
Los Angeles County Department of Public Works
900 South Fremont Avenue
Alhambra, CA 91803
Phone 626.458.4022

David Pettijohn

Director of Water Resources
LA Department of Water & Power
111 North Hope Street, Room 1460
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone 213.367.0899

Jason Phillips

CEO
Friant Water Authority
Phone 559.368.8619

Katie Porter

Brown & Caldwell
Phone 714.730.9052

Gregory M. Quist, Ph.D

Board Director, Division One
Rincon del Diablo Municipal Water District
1920 North Iris Lane
Escondido, CA 92026
Phone 760.745.5522

Tina Anderholt Shields, PE

Colorado River Resources Manager
Imperial Irrigation District
333 East Barioni Boulevard
Imperial, CA 92551
Phone 760.339.9287

Patrick Shields

West Basin Municipal Water District
Phone 310.660.6214

Bob Siemak

Assistant General Manager
United Water Conservation District
106 N 8th Street
Santa Paula, CA 93060
Phone 805.525.4431

Tony Solorzano

Discovery Science Foundation
2500 North Main Street
Santa Ana CA 92705
Phone 714.913.5013

Shelley Sorsabal

AVEK

Matt Stone
Immediate Past Board Chair

General Manager
Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency
27234 Bouquet Canyon Road
Santa Clarita, CA 91350
Phone 661.297.1600

Ray Tremblay

Assistant Departmental Engineer
Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County
1955 Workman Mill Road
Whittier, CA 90601
Phone 562.908.4288 x2761

Charles M. Treviño

Board Director, Treasurer
Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District
602 E. Huntington Drive, Suite B.
Monrovia, CA, 91016
Phone 626.443.2297

Julie Wilcox

Director
Southern Nevada Water Authority
1001 South Valley View Boulevard
Las Vegas, NV 89153
Phone 702.258.3939

Administrative Staff

Stacy Davis

Director of Administration and Development

Joyce Gwidt

Director of Conference Arrangements

John Rossi Board Chair

Richard Nagel Board Vice Chair

Ane Deister Executive Director

John Thornton Board Treasurer & Secretary