Dorothy Green

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Dorothy Green is the a founding Director of the California Water Impact Network. She served on the statewide board that directed the fight to stop the Peripheral Canal when it was on the ballot in 1982. She also is Founding President of Heal the Bay and President Emeritus of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council. She served as a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Commissioner for three and a half years, and chairs the most important water policy conference in the state, the POWER Conference, now in its sixteenth year.

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Managing Water: Avoiding Conflict in California, to be published by U.C. Press. (Spells out how water is managed in California and ends with elements of a sustainable water future.)

[edit] Awards

The President's Award for Volunteer Service presented by the head of US EPA Steve Johnson, February 2007. Green was also honored in Vanity Fair's May 2007 "Green" issue as one of the Golden State's Eco-Warriors. PCL Carla Bard Award for Volunteer Service at the PCL Annual Symposium, April, 2007 and many, many, more

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[edit] Further reading

  • The Great Thirst: Californian's and Water - A History, Revised Edition, Univ. of Cal. Press Ltd., ISBN 0-520-22455-8