Tim Stroshane's first book is Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California's Central Valley Project (University of Nevada Press, 2016). He is at work on a new antiracist history of California water law and development called White Water and Democracy in California. An urban planner whose career spans four decades, Stroshane studied earth sciences, environmental studies, political and social theory, and city planning, and gained professional experience in housing economics and policy, and water policy and law.
As policy analyst with Restore the Delta (RTD, 2014 to 2023), he oversaw a three-year environmental justice and water rights case against the state's proposed California WaterFix project before state water regulators, and helped train up young activists employed by RTD and other local Stockton NGOs to increase their California water literacy. He helped launch a coalition of Delta-identified California Indian Tribes and Delta environmental justice groups to petition state and federal regulators for civil rights complaints and water quality rule-making on behalf of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta Estuary and its communities. The United States Environmental Protection Agency recently assumed jurisdiction in the civil rights case. He left the coalition to complete this upcoming book. He lives with his wife and cat in the Albany, California, portion of Huchiun, homelands of the Lisjan Ohlone people.