Water Strategies · California

Building water reliability through innovation, strategy, and regional collaboration.

Independent advisory consulting for agencies balancing competing demands, local and imported supplies, and operational and regulatory constraints. We find real solutions, from policy to projects.

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About

Focused on durable, affordable water solutions.

We help public agencies, contractors, and regional partners evaluate alternatives, align governance, and move from concept to implementation. Our approach is collaborative, data-driven, and tuned to California’s evolving policy and hydrologic realities.

How we work

Clear direction, milestone-driven schedules, transparent decision frameworks, and actionable solutions that get projects across the finish line.

Our team

Geologists, engineers, data scientists, and financial analysts.

Services

How we help

We combine technical expertise, governance, and delivery to advance implementable solutions.

Water Supply Planning

Supply portfolios, dry-year strategies, and integration of high-runoff opportunities with long-term needs.

Policy & Governance

Watermaster and management solutions, cost-share structures, and board-ready materials for consensus decisions.

Proactive Regulatory Consulting

Win-win solutions developed with regional regulators, Basin Plans, salt and nutrient planning, and alternatives evaluation.

Project Development

Groundwater banking, conjunctive use, and regional supply optimization, from concepts and alternatives to the scopes, schedules, and documents that unlock funding.

Our Work

Selected work

Technically sound work, aligned partners, and outcomes delivered.

Delta Conveyance Governance Assistance

Structured workshops and negotiations, development of proposals that communicate key issues to all parties in a negotiations process.

Watermaster/GSA Services

Our firm serves as an ongoing administrator for groundnwater basins, providing adminstrative management and technical project leadership while preparing or managing the required reporting to the State or court.

State Water Project Support

Santiago supports State Water Constractors with their regional goals, SWP operations, exchanges, transfers, storage management, and overall resource optimzation.

Contact

Partner with us to secure tomorrow’s water reliability.

Let’s talk about your objectives and constraints, then map the steps to get decisions made and projects moving.

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Email
info@SantiagoWS.com
Location
California, USA