Project Aquashield is a specialized initiative designed to deliver broad, stable, and cost-efficient risk coverage to California's investor-owned water utilities through a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) structure. Developed in collaboration with the California Water Association (CWA) and CalMutuals JPRIMA, Project Aquashield ensures a sustainable, transparent, and mutually beneficial risk-management model for the state's essential water systems.

This video provides a historical perspective of California Workers Compensation including its main cost drivers, jurisdictional heat maps, ways to properly assist employees with disabilities and comorbidities, and strategies to address medical bill review and medical provider networks. Davidson Pattiz, Chief Operating Officer at Zenith Insurance Company, will provide this important content in an understandable and actionable format.

Joseph Crisologo, Senior Homeland Security Engineer at California State Water Resources Control Board, will provide a regulatory perspective on security challenges within the water industry, putting current legislation and regulations in context and sharing his thoughts on the future of Federal involvement in water security.

The same legal regime that has threatened the financial standing of California’s major electric and gas providers threatens the very existence of the state’s public drinking water suppliers and their ability to provide safe, dependable drinking water to customers.