Agenda

Urbanization, Uncertainty and Water: Planning for Arizona's Second Hundred Years January 24, 2012
7:30 - 8:30	Registration & Breakfast
8:30 - 8:45	Welcome Sharon Megdal, Director, Water Resources Research Center, UA David Daugherty, Director of Research, Morrison Institute for Public Policy, ASU
8:45-9:30	Opening Keynote: Metropolitan Water Policy in the Wet and Dry Sunbelt (pdf) Robert Lang - Director, Brookings Mountain West, UNLV
9:30 - 10:15	Session 1 A - Three Reports Moderator - Sharon Megdal, Director, Water Resources Research Center, UA Grady Gammage, Senior Research Fellow, Morrison Institute for Public Policy, ASU Watering the Sun Corridor: Managing Choices in Arizona's Megapolitan Area (pdf) David Brown, Attorney, Brown & Brown Law Offices The WRDC Final Report Karen Smith, Fellow, Grand Canyon Institute Arizona at the Crossroads: Water Scarcity or Water Sustainability (pdf)
10:15 - 10:30	BREAK
10:30 - 11:45	Session 1 B - Three Reports Panel Discussion Moderator - Sharon Megdal, Director, Water Resources Research Center, UA Warren Tenney, Assistant General Manager, Metropolitan Domestic Water Improvement District, CAP Board Member Holly Richter, Director of Conservation, The Nature Conservancy Nan Walden, Vice-President, Farmer's Investment Company Marshall Brown, Executive Director, Scottsdale Water Resources Department
11:45 - 12:15	*Sun Corridor Workshop Results (pdf)* Jim Holway - Director, Western Lands and Communities, A Lincoln Institute of Land Policy - Sonoran Institute Joint Venture
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch Luncheon Keynote - Jack August, Author and Historian The History and Future of Water in the Southwest
1:45 - 2:45	Session 2 - Perspectives from Industry Sectors Gary Yaquinto, President, AZ Investment Council John Graham, President & CEO, Sunbelt Holding Rebecca Comstock, Senior Director, Land and Water Department, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc. Copper Mining Industry Perspectives: Urbanization, Uncertainty and Water (pdf) Dale Larsen, Professor of Practice, School of Community Resources & Development, ASU
2:45 - 4:00	Session 3 - What about Natural Resources and Land Use? Moderator - Richard Morrison, Attorney, Salmon, Lewis & Weldon, PLC David Rousseau, President of the Board, Salt River Project What About Natural Resources and Land Use? (pdf) Maria Baier, Commissioner, Arizona State Lands Dept Jim Holway - Director, Western Lands and Communities, A Lincoln Institute of Land Policy - Sonoran Institute Joint Venture
4:00 - 4:15	BREAK - Sposored by Carollo
4:15 - 5:30	Session 4 - A Look to the Future Moderator - Grady Gammage, Senior Research Fellow, Morrison Institute for Public Policy, ASU Jim Buizer, Deputy Director for Climate Adaptation & International Development, UA Institute of the Environment Michael J. Lacey, Deputy Director, Arizona Department of Water Resources David Snider, District 3 Supervisor, Pinal County Board of Supervisors

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