On Water

On May 1, 2007 Pat Mulroy, General Manager, Southern Nevada Water Authority, presented on "Overcoming the Traditions That Divide Us - Tomorrow's Reliable Water Supply Dependent Upon Partnerships" as part of WRCA's California Colloquium on Water lecture series.
Watch the video (1 hour, 23 minutes): Stream Google Video or RealMedia.
[There was no PowerPoint presentation at this lecture.]

Abstract: The new reality of the West is simple: it is comprised of communities, states and regions increasingly interdependent on one another for natural resources and the economic livelihood that flows from them. In the case of water, that interdependence is made more important by the fact that water is essential for any living creature to survive. As a result, a public trust issue necessarily underlies any undertaking or negotiation that involves water. Decision-making, planning and positions must be respectful of that trust and the interdependence that drives it. By working together for consensus solutions and by ensuring that water laws and agreements remain flexible to changing conditions, water agencies will set a new standard for resource management that will see the West through the next century.

Streaming video and PowerPoint presentations from previous lectures are available from the colloquium Web page . Announcements of future lectures, beginning again in September, will be posted on this blog.