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As Californians continue to face a mounting list of significant water challenges – including an aging infrastructure, growing population, degraded ecosystems, over reliance on groundwater, disjointed management of water resources by government agencies, and not least of all climate change and drought – we are clearly going to need all the help we can get to meet these challenges.

Among those involved in determining California’s water policy, Latino leaders, in particular, will need to be fully informed about our water challenges and more than that become part of the solution. The growing western states Latino demographic demands that.

I just love Gov. Brown, don’t you? Okay, that’s more than a slight exaggeration, but he did endear himself to me with his executive order regarding water conservation.

Those of you who care about such things might recall Jerry (he calls me Harry — yeah, right) standing in a mountain meadow in spring 2015, staring at bare ground where there should have been several feet of snow. It was the photo op to back up his executive order back then to force urban water users to cut the amount of water they used by 25%.

Southern California’s “Godzilla” El Niño never arrived, but the rain that did fall gave the state some relief from the drought, officials said this week.

Although the southern half of the state missed out on much of the rainfall, the northern half got more than average this winter. And the state did a better job of storing water and ensuring it gets to where it’s needed most, officials said. As a result, regulators in Sacramento will recommend this month that the state stop dictating to municipal water agencies how much water they need to save during the drought, Felicia Marcus, chair of the State Water Resources Control Board, announced Monday.

It has been a year since Steven Latino has been able to put his fishing boat on Diamond Valley Lake.

An avid fisherman who happens to be the city engineer for Hemet, Latino said that since the lake was closed to private boats in April 2015 because of low water levels, he has made a few trips to other spots but has mostly kept his boat in the garage. But not for long. The massive drinking-water reservoir will reopen to private boats Wednesday.