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TRANSCRIPT Transcript Exploring solutions for the western water crisis Tuesday and Wednesday, April 19-20, 2005 Jordan Ballroom, Student Union Boise State University Presented by: ©2005 The Andrus Center for Public Policy This document is also available in PDF format at www.andruscenter.org. Conference Schedule Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:00 AM Welcome and Introduction Cecil D. Andrus, Chairman, The Andrus Center for Public Policy Robert Kustra, Ph.D., President of Boise State University Leslie Hurst, President and Publisher of The Idaho Statesman 9:15 AM Keynote Address: “The Global Water Situation: Crises in Management” Richard A. Meganck, Ph.D., Rector of the UNESCO Institute for Water Education in Delft, The Netherlands 10:00 AM Audience Question-and-Answer Forum Moderated by Governor Andrus 10:15 AM Break 10:30 AM Address: “An Investor’s Approach to Water Scarcity” Joan L. Bavaria, President, Trillium Asset Management Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts 11:00 AM Question-and-Answer Forum Moderated by Dr. John C. Freemuth, Senior Fellow, Andrus Center 11:10 AM Discussion: The Global Balancing Act: Water as a Right and a Commodity Moderated by Rocky Barker, Environment Reporter, The Idaho Statesman Maude Barlow, Chairperson of the Council of Canadians Patrick Cairo, Senior Vice President, Suez Environnement North America Jan Dell, Vice President, Industrial Business Group, CH2M Hill 11:50 AM Audience Question-and-Answer Forum Moderated by Rocky Barker 12:00 PM Break 12:15 PM Lunch — Student Union 12:30 PM Luncheon Address: “Water in the American West: The Fight Goes On” Patricia Nelson Limerick, Ph.D.: MacArthur Fellow and Professor of History, University of Colorado 12:50 PM Audience Question-and-Answer Forum Moderated by Governor Andrus 1:05 PM Break 1:20 PM Discussion: Whiskey’s for Drinking; Water’s for Worrying Moderated by Marc C. Johnson, President of the Andrus Center Michael Clark, Executive Director, Western Water Project, Trout Unlimited, Bozeman, Montana John W. Creer, President, Farm Management Co., Salt Lake City Karl J. Dreher, Director, Idaho Department of Water Resources John Echohawk, Executive Director, Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, Colorado John W. Keys III, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Washington, D.C. John D. Leshy, Former Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior; now Professor of Real Property Law, Hastings School of Law Patricia Mulroy, Director, Las Vegas Valley Water District Norm Semanko, Director, Idaho Water Users Association 2:50 PM Audience Question-and-Answer Forum Moderated by Marc C. Johnson 3:00 PM Presentation: Real Solutions in a World of Scarce Water John Tracy, Ph.D., Director, Idaho Water Resources Research Institute, University of Idaho 3:45 PM First day adjourned. Wednesday, April 20, 2005 9:00 AM Address: “The Perspective from Washington” Mike Crapo, United States Senator, R. Idaho (via satellite) 9:15 AM Audience Question-and-Answer Forum Moderated by Carolyn Washburn 9:30 AM An Andrus Center Dialogue: The West’s Worst Nightmares: Drought, Thieves in the Night, and Thirsty Lawyers Moderated by Marc C. Johnson, President of the Andrus Center Maude Barlow, Chairperson, Council of Canadians L. Michael Bogert, former Counsel to Governor Dirk Kempthorne Patrick Ford, Executive Director, Save Our Wild Salmon Karl J. Dreher, Director, Idaho Department of Water Resources John Echohawk, Executive Director, Native American Rights Fund Dan Keppen, Executive Director, Family Farm Alliance, Klamoth Falls, Oregon John W. Keys III, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation John D. Leshy, former Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior Patricia Mulroy, Director, Las Vegas Valley Water District Rep. Bruce Newcomb, Speaker, Idaho House of Representatives Patrick A. Shea, former Director of the Bureau of Land Management Michael J. Sullivan, former Governor of Wyoming James C. Waldo, former Water Advisor to Governor Gary Locke, Washington State 10:45 AM Audience Question-and-Answer Forum. Moderated by Marc C. Johnson 11:00 AM Discussion: Advice to the Policymakers Cecil Andrus, Former Governor of Idaho and Secretary of Interior John W. Keys, III Rep. Bruce Newcomb Governor Michael J. Sullivan 11:30 AM Governor Andrus adjourns the conference. Table of Contents Tuesday, April 19, 2005 Welcome Cecil D. Andrus, Chairman, The Andrus Center for Public Policy 1 Robert Dustra, Ph.D., President of Boise State University Carolyn Washburn, Executive Editor of The Idaho Statesman Keynote Address “The Global Water Situation: Crises in Management” 3 Richard A. Meganck, Ph.D., Rector of the UNESCO Institute for Water Education in Delft, The Netherlands Question Forum Moderated by Cecil D. Andrus 9 Address “An Investor’s Approach to Water Scarcity” 13 Joan L. Bavaria, Presidnet, Trillium Asset management Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts Question Forum Moderated by Dr. John C. Freemuth, Senior Fellow, Andrus Center 15 Discussion The Global Balancing Act: Water as a Right and a Commodity 16 Moderated by Rocky Barker, Environment Reporter, The Idaho Statesman Maude Barlow, Patrick Cairo, Jan Dell Luncheon Address “Water in the American West: The Fight Goes On” 26 Patricia nelson Limerick, Ph.D., MacArthur Fellow and Professor of History, University of Colorado Discussion Whiskey’s for Drinking; Water’s for Worrying 33 Moderated by Marc C. Johnson, President, Andrus Center Michael Clark, John W. Creer, Karl J. Dreher, John Echohawk, John W. Keys III, John D. Leshy, Patricia Mulroy, Norm Semanko Question Forum Moderated by Marc C. Johnson 46 Presentation Real Solutions in a World of Scarce Water 48 John Tracy, Ph.D., Director, Idaho Water Resources Research Institute, University of Idaho Wednesday, April 20, 2005 Address “The Perspective from Washington” 57 Mike Crapo, United States Senator, R. Idaho (via satellite) Question Forum Moderated by Carolyn Washburn 60 An Andrus Center The West’s Worst Nightmares: Drought, Thieves in the Night, and 63 Dialogue Thirsty Lawyers Moderated by Marc C. Johnson Participants: Maude Barlow, L. Michael Bogert, Patrick Ford, Karl J. Dreher, John Echohawk, Dan keppen, John W. Keys III, John d. Leshy, Patricia Mulroy, Rep. Bruce Newcomb, Patrick A. Shea, Michael J. Sullivan, james C. Waldo Question Forum Moderated by Marc C. Johnson 80 Discussion Advice to the Policymakers 81 Moderated by Cecil Andrus Participants: John W. Keys, III, Rep. Bruce Newcomb, Govenor Michael J. Sullivan Adjournment Governor Andrus 82 Participant Biographies 83 Troubled Water Exploring solutions for the western water crisis April 19-20, 2005 Presented by: The Andrus Center for Public Policy The Idaho Statesman Tuesday morning, April 19, 2005 put this together. I would like to express my 9:00 AM to Noon appreciation to them and also to the volunteers. All of those people you see working out front are CECIL D. ANDRUS: Welcome, ladies and volunteers. gentlemen. My name is Cecil Andrus. I’m There are three men you’ll see a lot of chairman of the Andrus Center for Public Policy during this conference. First, Marc Johnson, at Boise State University. We welcome you here the president of the Andrus Center. He is also a this morning to discuss the troubled waters. volunteer and helps pro bono. He is one of the Those of us in the west think of the drought partners of the Gallatin Group, a public affairs/ as being a very local situation, but water is a issues management firm with offices throughout global issue. It’s renewable, but it’s finite in any the Pacific Northwest and in Washington, D.C. given year. Without water, of course, life could You will also see Dr. John Freemuth, the Senior not exist. Fellow at the Andrus Center and a professor here The Andrus Center for Public Policy and at Boise State University. If you look at the bios The Idaho Statesman joined together to bring and don’t find him, just know that we were a this major issue to the forefront in a very timely little short of paper... I know he’ll get even with manner. me somehow. The third one is Rocky Barker, the Depending on where you live, the global environment reporter for The Idaho Statesman. concerns are equally important. Sometimes it’s He was a Visiting Fellow for the Andrus Center a flood, sometimes it’s a drought, sometimes a couple of years ago, and he continues to serve it’s contamination. For those of you that did not pro bono as an advisor. Those three fellows you see the Sunday edition of The Idaho Statesman, will see from time to time. it shows the picture of a woman who has walked My landlord is here, president of Boise State miles to go to a well in an underdeveloped University. Dr. Kustra came to us a couple of years country. More than 1.2 billion people do not ago from Eastern Kentucky University where he have access to quality water, a situation that the was president. He has worked cohesively with United Nations is looking at. We’ll hear some of the Idaho Legislature, but we’ll see when we see that from our keynote speaker this morning. the funding for higher education. Today, we plan to start out with our keynote Following him will be Carolyn Washburn, speaker, who will discuss the local, national, Executive Editor of The Idaho Statesman, and she and global issues. With his background, he will give a welcome for the paper. is well qualified to do that. Then we will go With that, please let me now present the through the schedule you see in your program, president of Boise State University, my friend and we will finish up tomorrow with, we hope, and landlord, President Robert Kustra. some solutions and evaluations by people that will have the opportunity to be with us the DR. ROBERT KUSTRA: Thank you, Gov- whole time. ernor. It’s great to be with all of you people in Let me thank, particularly, the Trillium the middle of all these drought-resistant plants.