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*****Water On-Line's Regional Workshop Schedule*****

To be held in your area:

Region:  Los Angeles and Orange Counties
Location: Central & West Basins Water District
	17140 South Avalon Blvd., Suite 210
	Carson, CA  90746
	(310)217-2222
Date:  December 6, 1995
Time:  1-4:30 PM
Directions:  Take the 91 Freeway, exit on Avalon, head North.  
	Office is located at the corner of Avalon and Walnut


Region:  San Diego and Imperial Counties
Location:  San Diego County Water Authority
	3211 Fifth Ave.
	San Diego, CA  92103
	(619) 682-4100
Date:  December 11, 1995
Time:  1-4:30 PM
Directions:  Coming from North:  Take 163 South, exit on Univeristy, 
	turn right on Spruce, and right on Fifth.
	Coming from South:  Take I-5 North, exit at 6th Ave.
	Turn right on Spruce, 	and left on Fifth.


Region:  San Bernardino and Riverside Counties
Location:  San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District
Date:  December 13, 1995
Time:  1-4:30 PM
Directions:  Take the 60 to the 10 to San Bernardino, 
	then take the 215.  Exit Orange Hill Rd.
	Turn right at the 1st light.


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Dear California Water Professional,
 
Water On-Line is hosting a series of workshops to explore how 
businesses and agencies might cooperate on a regional basis to 
use the Internet for their mutual benefit.  At these workshops, 
participants will have an opportunity to provide feedback on 
what should be happening with the Internet and water on a 
statewide level and also give advice on what Water On-Line 
should be doing in the future.

The upcoming regional workshops have been made possible through the 
recent financial support of the California Urban Water Agencies and 
the Central and West Basins Water Districts.  Regional and basin 
Internet cooperation offers interesting opportunities for improving 
everyone's efficiency and effectiveness.  For example, the San Gabriel 
Basin Water Quality Authority has been making progress in such an 
effort as is evidenced by their growing website 
(http://www.deltanet.com/sgvw).  What are the opportunities and costs 
of developing regional efforts in your area?  These workshops will 
be professionally facilitated, consensus-oriented, and thought-provoking 
exercises.  Our success in creating regional collaboration efforts 
depends on who attends.  If you think the Internet is in your future, 
this will be a worthwhile use of your time.
 
This latter objective is important because Water On-Line has not
been receiving the funding it needs to run properly.  Our 
Introduction to the Internet hands-on trainings have not had 
enough students to make them economically viable, and many of 
our past sponsors have not been able to continue sponsoring us 
this year.  Due to this situation, we must now ask you these 
questions:  1)What are the most important things Water On-Line 
should be doing and 2)What would motivate potential sponsors to 
contribute and volunteers to become involved?  Without grassroots 
support for the project, Water On-Line will likely dissolve, 
though it may pass on part of its mission to another organization 
such as the Bay Delta Modeling Forum.  These regional meetings 
will help provide feedback to the annual statewide meeting to be 
held in Sacramento in February. 

If you have any questions about these regional meetings or the Water 
On-Line project please call me or send me e-mail.  I hope to see you 
at one of the meetings in December. 

 
Sincerely,
 
Kevin Wolf
Water On-Line Coordinator
President, Kevin Wolf and Associates