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At JNF water summit, agreement on next steps, but when will L.A. act?

This scene, it seems, repeats itself every few months in Los Angeles: Politicians, city agencies, water experts and environmentalists convene, agree that California — particularly Los Angeles County — is doing a poor job of implementing proven solutions to solving water shortages, and then ask when the government will get serious about things.

New DWP chief David Nahai takes on major challenges

David Nahai is an environmentalist and an attorney, not an engineer, and his major previous management challenge was running a 15-employee law firm. But he is the man Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa tapped take on the $304,000-a-year job as general manager of the Department of Water and Power, the nation\’s largest — and frequently troubled — public municipal utility. He\’s also the first ever to helm the DWP without decades of experience in either the utility business or city government.

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