Doug Obegi
Director, California River Restoration, Water Division, Nature Program
Since coming to NRDC in 2008, Doug Obegi has worked on a variety of projects related to water-resource management in California, including the San Joaquin River Restoration Program, the proposed Bay-Delta Conservation Plan/California WaterFix, the Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan review and update, the 2014 California Water Bond (Proposition 1), and other state and federal water legislation. Obegi has also represented the organization in federal court during litigation regarding protections for endangered species in the Bay-Delta estuary. He is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law. He is based in San Francisco.
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A ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Card for Stealing the Delta's Water
Expert BlogCaliforniaDoug Obegi
It’s time for the federal government to once again intervene to protect the Bay-Delta before it’s too late.
Proponents of CA Water Infrastructure Cause Permit Delays
Expert BlogCaliforniaDoug Obegi
The permitting process isn’t broken. What’s most lacking is good faith by proponents of new infrastructure projects.
Fighting a Flood of Misinformation about CA Water
Expert BlogCaliforniaDoug Obegi
For more than a decade, the science has been clear that we need to reduce diversions from the Bay-Delta in average and drier years.