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Washington Water Law & the Public Trust CLE
*Limited Walk-In Registration Available
Water is an increasingly scarce resource in Washington State. The demands for water are numerous: domestic and municipal, irrigation, agricultural, and for instream flows to sustain water quality, and fish and wildlife. These demands are increasingly pitted against each other in these hard economic times especially where dynamic population growth is occurring. Economic growth depends upon water but fish, wildlife, and our very future also depend upon sufficient flows in our rivers and streams. So how can we return more water to instream uses, and can we do so while fostering growth?
Please join us for the Center for Environmental Law and Policy's 4th conference on Washington Water Law & the Public Trust: a conference designed to examine recent efforts to restore instream flows, and new developments in water law and policy, with an engaging and expert faculty.
PROGRAM AND AGENDA
8:00 Registration & Coffee
8:25 Welcome & Overview
Rachael Paschal Osborn, Interim Executive Director, Center for Environmental Law & Policy (CELP)
8:30- 9:15 New Developments in Public Interest Water Law
David L. Monthie, DLM & Associates, Olympia
9:15- 10:00 Agricultural Water Quality Developments: CAFO Permits and the Yakima RCRA lawsuit
Andrea Rodgers, Attorney, Law Office of Andrea Rodgers and of counsel, Western Environmental Law Center, Seattle
10:00 BREAK
10:15- 10:45 (How) Can Rural Water Supply & Instream Flows Co-Exist? Introduction
Moderator: Patrick Williams, Attorney, Law Office of Patrick Williams, Seattle
10:45- 12:15 RWS & Instream Flows Panel, cont:
Jean Melious, Attorney and of counsel, Nossaman LLP, Bellingham
Tom Loranger, Water Resources Program Manager, WA Department of Ecology, Olympia
Ken Slattery, GEI Consultants, Inc., Seattle
Daryl Williams, Environmental Liason Natural Resources, Tulalip Tribes
12:15 LUNCH
Bring your brown bag, or purchase lunch box for $10
1:15-2:15 Ethics Hour: The Ethics of Civility
Prof. Paula Lustbader, Seattle University School of Law, and Robert's Fund, Seattle
2:15 BREAK
2:30 - 3:00 2015 Legislative Prognostications
Bruce Wishart, Wishart Public Affairs, Olympia
3:00- 3:45 MVID, or: How I Learned to Stop Wasting Water and Love "Reasonable Efficiency"
Rachael Osborn, Attorney, Spokane
3:45- 4:30 The 2014 National Climate Assessment & PNW Water Resources
Paul Fleming, Seattle Public Utilities, Climate Resiliency Group, Seattle
4:30 Adjourn
CELP has applied for 6.5 CLE credits (including 1.0 ethics credit) with the Washington State Bar Association for this program.
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Location2100 Building (View)
2100 24th Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98144
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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