At the request of the Resources Legacy Foundation, the Center prepared a draft report examining alternative institutional structures to govern a water delivery entity separately from the DWR. The analysis suggests criteria to evaluate alternative governance options, based on case studies of a variety of special-purpose public entities. It provides a starting point for the detailed deliberations that necessarily accompany consideration of major institutional change. This report provides a template for considering a range of options and highlights key elements of an accountable and responsive governance structure, but it does not advocate a single “ideal” model.

The report is available here (accompanying table ishere).

This report informed a recently released study of the Little Hoover Commission, Managing for Change: Modernizing California’s Water Governance (Aug. 2010), available here.