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Sponsored by the Woods Institute for the Environment and the
Bill Lane Center for the West at Stanford University

On behalf of the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Bill Lane Center for the West at Stanford University, we welcome you to the first session of a two-part "Uncommon Dialogue" concerning water in the North American West.

The West's water regimes, largely the products of nineteenth-century legal doctrines and twentieth-century engineering projects, are obsolescing rapidly. Our objective is to foster collaboration between university researchers and water management decision makers to formulate a policy-relevant, multidisciplinary research program appropriate for the next century of the region's development. To that end, we are convening a group composed of hydrological and environmental scientists, engineers, public policy analysts, historians, economists, and legal scholars, as well as major water users, managers, and policy makers, to discuss solutions to the West's water problems. A participant list is attached.

Topics will include climate, supply and storage; water reuse/recycle for meeting non-potable uses including agricultural water demands; ecosystems; and institutional inertia. Thank you to the many participants who responded to the survey. Your responses helped shape the conference's agenda.

Beginning with a welcome reception/dinner on Monday, November 10, we will meet on November 11th and 12th, 2008, for a first round of discussion, to be followed by a second meeting in the early spring of 2009 to define a specific research and action agenda. The workshop will include breakfast and lunch on both days and a reception and the dinner on Tuesday evening, November 11.

Because funding is limited, we are grateful to those who are able to cover their own travel expenses. We will, however, reimburse hotel and coach airfare for those participants who cannot cover their own travel expenses. Many of you will be staying at the Stanford Guest House, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park CA 94025-7015, for the evenings of Monday, November 10, and Tuesday, November 11. The deadline for the block of rooms has past, but there are still rooms available as of this morning, so if you need to make reservations, please call the hotel directly at (650) 926-2800 and mention that you are attending the "Water in the West Workshop." A shuttle service will bring hotel guests to and from the conference, per the schedule on the agenda. Reimbursements for travel should be sent to Brenda Pascual, , and should include original receipts and your boarding pass.

Attached is additional logistical information we hope will be helpful to you. Attire is business casual. If you have any dietary restrictions or require a vegetarian meal, please contact Sue Purdy Pelosi, . Thank you. If you have any questions, please contact Brenda Pascual, , Sue Purdy Pelosi, , or Leigh Johnson, .

Sincerely,

Richard G. Luthy
Professor and Chair
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
Stanford University

David M. Kennedy
Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History
Co-Director, Bill Lane Center
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
Stanford University

Water in the West Workshops

» Overview

» Welcome

» Results & Publications

November 10 - 12, 2008
» Agenda [pdf]

» Speakers Profiles

» Participant List

March 10 - 11, 2009
» Agenda [pdf]

» Participant List