Conner Everts  Facilitator

Conner Everts

In addition to his duties as a Facilitator for the Caucus, Conner Everts is the Executive Director of the Southern California Watershed Alliance and co-chair of the Desal Response Group. He is chair of Public Officials for Water and Environmental Reform (POWER) as well as other organizations. Conner was elected to the Casitas Municipal Water District and was president of the Ojai Basin Management Ground Water Agency. Conner was convener of the California Urban Water Conservation Council and on the state task forces on Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs), Desalination, and the SWRCB recycled water stakeholder process and most recently is on the Department of Public Health Direct Potable Reuse Advisory Group. But his most important work is as elder advisor to the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water and with the Southern California Steelhead Coalition helping remove dams on the streams where he caught fish as a youth and hopefully others can in the future.

David Nesmith  Senior Advisor

David Nesmith

David has worked on California water issues for many years, first as the Conservation Director for the San Francisco Bay Chapter of the Sierra Club, and then as the facilitator for the EWC. His past work also includes stints as a taxi driver in New York City, an international affairs educator at the UN, and a volunteer promoting agricultural development in Viet Nam in the late 1960s.

David is on extended sick leave and is a Senior Advisor to the Caucus

Nick Di Croce  Senior Advisor

Nick Di Croce

Nick retired from a senior management position at the Toyota Corporation in 1998 and since that time he has been involved in California water policy issues with California Trout, the California Water Impact Network, and more recently as a consultant to the EWC. His Wharton School degree in economics and his career in the corporate business world bring a unique economics-based analytical orientation to environmental solutions. He has served on the Public Advisory Committee for the State Water Plan and he was the lead author of the EWC's California Water Solutions Now report. Nick retired from the EWC as of June 15, 2014 and now serves as a Senior Advisor to the Caucus