PUT YOUR PUBLIC WATER OUTREACH PROGRAM ON STEROIDS

How can the short memory of the public maintain the long-term commitments of water projects and conservation behaviors? Connecting at varying scaled levels brings both the emotions and analytical understanding into focus with the meaning of your water projects. Accomplished effectively, this strategy of communication under the influence of the proverbial steroids develops a public that pushes a water project forward. The public will understand the value of water and the project’s relevance to their lives.

Living in the Extremes Requires Building Public Responsibility

The frequency of more extreme hot, wet and dry years is verification that climate change has taken hold. How can our communities solicit actions that build adaptability to more extreme weather conditions? It takes a committed effort to build this type of capacity within a public. You can think of this as an investment that makes the impossible possible. Building on values through time and being consistent is key. Choose a program that facilitates cooperative and adaptive efforts for managing collective and personal water supplies. Operation Unite is waiting for your call. Elected representatives will benefit by a supportive and engaged public. We all will.

Drilling a water well is one thing but managing your real estate's water resource is quite another

Drilling a water well is one thing but managing the home water resource is quite another. That is why a hydrogeologist focuses on the well and the aquifer. They want your water well to always have safe, good quality groundwater. Hydrogeologists even help you build your backup water supply.

You may wonder if real estate in rural areas, (residential, farming and ranching), always holds their value when new buyers are confident in the water supply. Believe me, buyers even pay more for a property that has a portfolio that demonstrates longevity and health of the water supply. Hydrogeologists that have published regional and technical studies on aquifer integrity and harnessed that knowledge through application to the real world are a major contributor to seeing the real value of real estate. They monitor, evaluate and build longevity and health by establishing water resource strategies. You no longer have to be blind to what’s going on under your feet. You are kept informed.

Operation Unite has the perfect real estate solutions for you.

First of all, we help find that precious resource by increasing your probability of success.

Secondly, we help you know and track the health of the aquifer that your well is penetrating so problems are corrected before they reach a critical point and lastly,

We build a water portfolio for your property that improves the value of your real estate.

Property owner, farmer, realtor or lender; it doesn’t really matter. You will always come out a winner when you plan for success. Operation Unite was built for success and its special groundwater programs are how you will do it.

Secretary Bruce Babbitt Reminds California About Wicked Water Problems

The Voluntary Settlement Agreement process is a mechanism that we need to see more of in California and other western states. Our continued effort in solving complex water issues based on individual needs and wants will usually result in dysfunction. That is not the end point that we seek. Inspired views are in great demand and those views many times come with lifetime experiences of our semi-retired and retired professionals.

In front of a near full house at the recent Anne J. Schneider Lecture at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, Secretary Bruce Babbitt shared his most intimate advice. The Secretary stated, “Talking, listening and understanding each other is what we want to keep doing. The process is important so don’t yield and never give up.”

Operation Unite® understands the needs to keep the conversation going and build public and stakeholder responsibility for our water resource projects. Public responsibility is built by respecting everyone, showcasing water related responsibilities that occur in our communities and listen and share, continuously.    In the end, trust is built with previously oppositional groups and projects are completed. The best news is; it doesn’t end there. Responsibility, respect and trust are foundational in solving other community related issues like the homeless problems, housing, healthcare and energy. Turn your water projects into water success stories. Operation Unite® will brighten your day.

Communities that Know Their Shared Values Solve Their Shared Problems

We recognize unreliability of our water supplies when floods overcome the water treatment plant or droughts don’t meet our expectation for meeting water demand. Adding to these stresses are the consequences of extreme weather damaging basic water infrastructure including old water distribution systems and their protective overlying roadway cover. Ultimately the rhythm of community life is impacted and the water using public becomes intolerant of the disrupted services that are more frequently showing up. How do you build a public that is tolerant and cooperative with coping under these changing conditions?

Well…..

We have heard the families that pray together, stay together. Did you also know that communities that know their shared values solve their shared problems. Operation Unite does and we can help your community.

Everything About Aquifers and Groundwater Management Conference

Operation Unite® is pleased to be one of the presenters at next week’s American Ground Water Trust Annual Conference titled, “Everything About Aquifers and Groundwater Management.” The Association of Groundwater Agencies and the American Ground Water Trust have held a joint annual groundwater conference in California since 2000. This year’s line-up includes Metropolitan Water District, Mathew Hacker, LA County Flood District Director Daniel Lafferty, Orange County Water District Patrick Versluis, California Rural Water Association Executive Director Dan Demoss, Maven’s Notebook Founder Chris Austin, Operation Unite® Founder Stephen Baker and Jena Acos, attorney with Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.

Operation Unite’s, Stephen Baker, will present groundwater management principles for communities in fractured rock aquifer regions of the western U.S. This two-day conference really is everything about aquifers and groundwater management. Hope to see you there.

Groundwater Management Success Doesn't Happen by Accident

How can we move away from the “Tragedy of the Commons” mindset and manage our groundwater resource with good outcomes?

• Enable water users by building adaptive, collaborative and resourceful skills;

• Educate, educate, and educate knowledge of water;

• Build early warning and critical action responses into the groundwater management program; and

• Strengthen the water using public through a public relationship building program that is built, specifically, for supporting your Groundwater Sustainability Plan.

We can do this together. Contact Operation Unite;  530-263-1007.

Knowledge and Attitude are Key

Do you want your public and stakeholders to push back or push effective groundwater management forward?

Building a groundwater management plan is more than monitoring, water budgets and computer simulations. It is working with the attitudes, knowledge-base and behaviors of your stakeholders and public.

Develop good groundwater management, systematically, by converting groundwater users to higher levels of participation through time. Good management practices through time come at a lower cost and greater success.

Contact Operation Unite by email (stevebaker@operationunite.co) or phone 530.263.1007.

Location, Location, Location Also Works When Picking a New Well Location

Do your client a favor. Use the best information when you pick a new groundwater well location.

• Improve your chances on picking a great water supply well.
• Improve the marketing potential for your property.
• Don’t miss out on a technically-based opinion regarding where you invest in a groundwater supply.

It will be the best $500 you have ever spent.
 

Call Hydrogeologist, Steve Baker, at:  530-263-1007