Tribal Water Dialogues in Arizona and the Colorado River Basin

900 University Avenue,Riverside CA 92521

16 November, 2021

Description

The second Water Seminar Series event of the Fall 2021 quarter. Please register directly for this event on Zoom: https://cutt.ly/water-megdal Increased recognition of the importance of tribal water rights, practices, and challenges is leading to greater collaboration with tribal representatives in state and regional water management dialogues and studies. Consultation practices have evolved in Arizona and the Colorado River Basin over the past decade. Initiatives discussed will include: basin-wide study of Colorado River water supply and demand; development of Arizona’s implementation plan for the Lower Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan; processes related to the development of successor regulations to the December 2007 “Colorado River Interim Guidelines for Lower Basin Shortages and the Coordinated Operations for Lake Powell and Lake Mead;” and efforts of the Water & Tribes Initiative|Colorado River Basin, especially Universal Access to Clean Water. On the engagement front, the presenter will draw upon personal experiences and lessons learned from delivering two conferences focusing on Indigenous water and serving on the Board of Directors of the Central Arizona Project. The School of Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside is training a new generation of forward-thinking public policy leaders equipped to address the complex, interrelated challenges of poverty, disease, climate change, pollution and more. It is only one of four public policy schools in the ten-campus University of California system. It offers the only undergraduate program in public policy in the UC system, and is home to the only Master of Public Policy program at a major research university in Inland Southern California.