New Directions for U.S. Water Policy

PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 1, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On October 20^th, The Hamilton Project at Brookings and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment will host a forum and release new papers highlighting opportunities for improving water policy and management in the United States.

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg will give welcoming remarks, followed by an introduction and roadmap of the event by former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin. California Governor Jerry Brown has been invited to give featured remarks on the landscape of water in the West, and Philanthropist and Advanced Energy Advocate Thomas F. Steyer will lead a panel on the impact of climate change on water resources. The full agenda can be found here.

Participants include, among others: Robert Glennon of the University of Arizona; Ellen Hanak of Public Policy Institute of California; Thomas Iseman of the U.S. Department of the Interior; James Lochhead of Denver Water; William Phillimore of Paramount Farming Company; Barton Thompson of The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; Ira Ehrenpreis of Technology Partners; Michael Markus of Orange County Water District; Peter Yolles of Water Smart Software; Wade Crowfoot of the Office of California Governor Jerry Brown; Noah Diffenbaugh of The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; Peter Gleick of The Pacific Institute; and Solomon Hsiang of the University of California, Berkeley.

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9:00 a.m. Welcome

Sheryl Sandberg
Chief Operating Officer, Facebook

9:10 a.m. Introduction and Roadmap of Event

Robert E. Rubin
Co-Chair, Council on Foreign Relations; Former U.S. Treasury Secretary

9:20 a.m. Featured Remarks: The Landscape of Water in the West

Governor Jerry Brown
State of California (invited)

9:50 a.m. Roundtable: Shopping for Water: How the Market Can Mitigate Water Shortages in the American West

Author: Robert Glennon
Regents' Professor, Morris K. Udall Professor of Law & Public Policy, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona
Discussant: Ellen Hanak
Senior Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California
Discussant: Thomas Iseman
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Water and Science, U.S. Department of the Interior
Discussant: James Lochhead
Chief Executive Officer and Manager, Denver Water
Discussant: William Phillimore
Executive Vice President, Paramount Farming Company
Moderator: Melissa Kearney
Director, The Hamilton Project; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

10:55 a.m. Break

11:10 a.m. Roundtable: The Path to Water Innovation

Author: Barton "Buzz" Thompson
Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law and Perry L. McCarty Director, The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Discussant: Ira Ehrenpreis
General Partner, Technology Partners
Discussant: Michael Markus
General Manager, Orange County Water District
Discussant: Peter Yolles
Founder and Chief Policy Officer, Water Smart Software
Moderator: Roger Altman
Founder and Chairman, Evercore|

12:15 p.m. Moderated Discussion: The Impact of Climate Change on America's Water Resources

Introduction by Robert E. Rubin

Wade Crowfoot
Deputy Cabinet Secretary and Senior Advisor, Office of California Governor Jerry Brown
Noah Diffenbaugh
Associate Professor of Environmental Earth System Science and Senior Fellow, The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Peter Gleick
President and Co-Founder, The Pacific Institute
Solomon Hsiang
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, The Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Moderator: Thomas F. Steyer
Investor, Philanthropist and Advanced Energy Advocate|

1:20 p.m. Closing Remarks and Adjournment

Remarks by Steven Denning, Chairman, General Atlantic; Chairman of the Board, Stanford University

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SOURCE The Hamilton Project at Brookings