Community Water Center
Janaki Anagha currently serves as the Director of Advocacy at Community Water Center, a position held since February 2022. Prior experience includes serving as Program Manager at the 11th Hour Project from August 2020 to February 2022 and as an Environmental Law Fellow with the California Lawyers Association in 2018. Janaki also coordinated the Community Alliance for Agroecology at the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment between December 2015 and August 2017, and worked as a Community Legal Worker for California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. from March 2014 to December 2015. Early career experience includes a role as Technical Assistant at the International Rescue Committee from 2011 to 2013. Janaki holds a Doctor of Law (JD) from the University of California, Davis - School of Law, a Certificate in Ecological Horticulture from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in International Agricultural Development from the University of California, Davis.
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Community Water Center
Clean water is a basic human right, not a privilege. Vision All communities have access to safe, clean, and affordable water. Mission Statement The Community Water Center acts as a catalyst for community-driven water solutions through organizing, education, and advocacy in California’s San Joaquin Valley. The Community Water Center helps build strategic grassroots capacity to address water challenges in small, rural, low-income communities and communities of color. Since opening its doors in 2006, CWC has worked with local residents from 82 California communities (69 in the southern San Joaquin Valley) to improve access to safe, clean, and affordable water. CWC has trained over 2,674 residents as clean water advocates and provided technical assistance to over 15 local water boards struggling with how to manage efficient and accountable water systems in their communities. CWC has also served as legal counsel to a number of small, disadvantaged communities with water systems. As a result, many rural, economically disadvantaged communities in the San Joaquin Valley now have improved access to clean and affordable drinking water. In 2009, CWC published a comprehensive Guide to Community Drinking Water Advocacy in both English and Spanish. This highly acclaimed guide has been distributed to hundreds of individuals, groups, and local water boards. See Here for more information. CWC also coordinates the coalition Asociación de Gente Unida por el Agua (AGUA), which is comprised of representatives of more than 17 local impacted communities and six nonprofit organizations, as well as youth and community-based organizations, all focused on addressing the root causes of unsafe and unaffordable drinking water for local communities.