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<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Western
governors dip into growing water demand<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>San
Francisco Chronicle-6/15/09<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>By
Mike Stark<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'>It's an old quip in the West: Whiskey's
for drinkin' and water's for fightin'. Only these days, there's more people
with a stake in the fight for water and a dwindling supply.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'>Quenching the growing demand for water in
the warming West will require a bigger push for conservation, innovative
technology and a rethinking of supply and demand, Western governors and water
experts said Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'>The three-day Western Governors'
Association meeting that began Sunday focuses on key issues that affect states
throughout the West, including water use, climate change and energy.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'>This year — with several cabinet
members from the Obama administration and a record attendance — the
political landscape has shifted and there's a renewed urgency for swapping
ideas and working together, attendees said.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'>Sunday's main discussion, which included
Canadian officials and experts from the Middle East and Australia, focused on
managing water amid changing climate conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'>Although many of the controversies in the
West center around urbanization, natural resources and energy development,
water — and often the lack of it — comes up again and again.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'>"Water is connected to all those
things," said panelist Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute,
an environmental think tank based in Oakland, Calif.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'>Gleick said there's evidence of
intensified water disputes, ecosystem collapse in some places and a population
growth that's driving a sometimes-fractured water management system.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'>States can no longer rely on simply
building more storage capacity, which can be expensive and "politically
challenging," he said. The West needs to consider other supply options
such as rainwater, use of treated wastewater and desalination plants, Gleick
said.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'>Climate change — which will alter
precipitation and the timing of mountain snow melt — also needs to be
incorporated into all water management decisions, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'>Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter said the region needs
to do more to protect the water that's already available.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'>"Conservation has to become an ethic
in the West," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'>Inevitably, though, there will be hard
decisions to make about who gets water and who doesn't, said Doug Miell, an
Australian water consultant and former leader of an irrigation council during
some of the country's worst drought conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'>"The bad news is there's no silver
bullet," said Miell, who advocated for more information gathering and
sharing among resource managers.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'>Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, the
incoming WGA chairman, agreed that water needs to be better measured, moved
more efficiently and conserved on a larger scale.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'>"Those of us who are managing water
in the West know how important this is," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Byron
Leydecker, JcT</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Chair, Friends
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>415 383 4810
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