• Reservoir Levels - As of January 21, reservoir storage is 74,884 acre-feet,* or 94% of capacity. The average for this date is 63,705 acre-feet, or 80% of capacity.    
• Rainfall - Rainfall this year to date (July 1, 2015 - January 21, 2016) is 28.79 inches. Average for the same period is 26.26 inches; last year on this date we had 31.43 inches.
• Water Use - Water use for the week ending January 21 averaged 13.9 million gallons per day, compared to 16.27 million gallons per day for the same week last year.
• Creek Releases - During the month of December 2015 MMWD released 444 million gallons, or 1,363 acre-feet, into Lagunitas and Walker creeks in west Marin for habitat enhancement.   

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*One acre-foot is 325,851 gallons

Director Cynthia Koehler of Mill Valley is the newly elected president of the MMWD Board of Directors for 2016 and Director Larry Russell of Tiburon is the vice president.

Koehler is the executive director and co-founder of Water Now, a non-profit dedicated to sustainable water solutions at the community level. Koehler has 20-plus years' experience in Western water law and policy development with such organizations as the Environmental Defense Fund and Save San Francisco Bay Association. Koehler received The Bay Institute's Hero of the Bay Award in 2013 and the Marin Conservation League's Ted Wellman Water Award in 2011. She is a graduate of Pomona College and the University of Oregon School of Law.

Russell has a doctorate in civil/environmental engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and is a licensed professional civil, chemical, and corrosion engineer with more than 30 years of technical experience in water management and conservation. Russell is a life member of the American Water Works Association and the Water Environment Federation and is the chair of the Corrosion Committee of the International Water Association. In 2015 Russell was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Alumni of the University of California, Berkeley Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

MMWD's five-member board of directors also includes Director Larry Bragman of Fairfax, Director Armando Quintero of San Rafael, and Director Jack Gibson of Sleepy Hollow.