Good morning. I am John Friedman and im based in washington dc where the Government Affairs a global apartment shared partnership. Ge is one of the leading technology companies. We have 50000 customers and 130 cussed countries. I dont see him, but i had the honor on tuesday of attending the white house water summit. Peter, marianne, you were there as well and probably others. One of the interesting things i heard was from john, president obamas scientific advisor and he said while members are almost never everything, there almost always a great starting point. I think in your opening remarks where you talk about the state of the nations water challenges you laid out numbers that are very sobering. I will just add to that that the American Society of Civil Engineers released a report giving the countrys water and wastewater of the structure a grade of d. That is worse than my grade of calculus to at the university of virginia. I still dont know why i took that class. I was a history major. We are losing 7 billion gallons of water each and every day through that d and the structure even though we experience droughts that are unprecedented in our history in places like california. But, i will come back to john who also said while these challenges are great, they are also solvable and this morning we have a panel of four in criminal experts who are going to tell us how we go about solving these challenges through policy and im going to start and work for my left to the end. We will start with brett walton. Bread is a reporter for the circle of blue. Many of you probably know the circle of blue as a news agency that shines a light on water issues globally. Than we have marion dickenson. Marianne is the ceo of the alliance for water efficiency in chicago and marianne provides thought leadership and best practices around using water sustainably. Then, we have Lynn Broaddus who runs broadview collaboration inc. , which i believe works with nonprofit, government clients to help them develop Natural Resources strategy and lynn, he also worked for six years before that leading Environmental Programs at the Johnson Foundation wings spread, Johnson Foundation wing spread and perhaps even more important, a graduate of the university of virginia who plays tonight at 7 00 p. M. Against iowa state, which leads me to peter peter gleick. Peter is a worldfamous water policy expert. Peter, read about you before i became Government Affairs leader and ready many of your articles and have seen you testify before congress. Like most grads, peter probably does not even know that yale has a vast melting, but they beat baylor the ncaa tournament before losing and post game to duke. That it brings us to our panel discussion. I would like each of our panelists to take one to two minutes to tell us more about themselves so you have some context for remarks when we asked them questions and bright, lets start with you. Thank you, john its good to be here. Circle of blue are a news agency, nonprofit news agency that reports on water and we view water as the lens to see the world. Duties connected challenges challenges of energy, health, economic social wellbeing, all of this and we find water with the most compelling stories of our time. We tell the story of the United States and china and india, australia, and now south africa. What we see is that systems that we built decades ago are no longer suitable for todays environmental and social conditions. We have a changing climate, changing demand patterns in the story is twofold. , do policymakers and society recognize that change . Number two, how do they respond to it . The story we tell is one pointing out the changes and also take a look at what the response is, is it efficient, where the gaps and where do we need to see more action. Im glad to be on a panel about the comedic asian these challenges because it is a big problem with a lot of big words and concepts that need translation to the public to advocate for change into the policy makers to understand what the best change could be. Marianne. Hello. I represent the Alliance Pour water efficiency, which is a Nonprofit Organization formed in 2007, to promote the efficient and sustainable use of water in the United States and canada. You might wonder why we were only formed in 2007 when Energy Efficiency organizations similar to ours have been in existence for 30 years we wondered the same thing. There were a number of us working in the field of Water Conservation and efficiency and realize there was no National Platform for any kind of advocacy on this issue and so we created a organization to do that. To provide not only Technical Assistance to Water Utilities and other water using stakeholders about what the best practices were in water efficiency, most costeffective options, but also to do research on what that next leadingedge should be and to provide guidance to state and federal ledgers leaders policymakers about needed policy that would promote efficient solutions, so thats why im pleased to be part of this panel where we will talk about what our ideas are for policy barriers. I will just conclude by apologizing for my voice. I have been sick this week, so if i start having a coughing fit while i talk, please forgive me. Lynn. Mariannes comment, there is a great leadin to its often said that all water is local and we need some. Thank you very much. I think this will go better that way. I am president of a company has started last year, broadview collaborative which works primarily with Nonprofit Foundation clients, but also with water innovation startup companies. Some of the small innovators looking to break into and changes from the ways that we do water. I think of when i started prior to starting my own company as john was saying i was with the Johnson Foundation at wing spread, which is Unusual Foundation in that we didnt give grants, we brought people together for dialogue and i was charged with starting to lead a National Conversation around water, bringing together different sectors. One of the first big kind of consensus reports we put out was in 2010, charting new waters called to action for National Water something policy. But, what was really interesting especially from a 2016 perspective is when we were shopping that around with federal agencies, with local groups, with states whatever, and a lot of the response was what is the big deal about water. Why are you so worried about water . I will say that including have a hard time getting traction with the Us Department of energy at the time. Im very happy to say that for all the wrong reasons that segment has changed. First, texas was having a drought and people viewed texas as a nether country, its their problem, but the macau afforded drought happened that was a really big deal and caught peoples attention around water quantity issues. Des moines, having to make a statement and take on a lawsuit to push upstream on their Water Quality problems coming off of Agricultural Land is getting traction locally, but hasnt been a National Story like it should be. Failing septic in our some of our rural areas and the horrible human story that comes along with that, despite bretts best efforts is still not really Getting National attention and national traction. When charlton West Virginia express the shop is water because of Chemical Spill that probably was preventable, batch got a blip of national attention, but no national changes. Water cutoffs in detroit, can sort of their problem. Not until this went situation i hope this is finally what is going to get our National Consciousness wrapped around water. I think that we will have plenty of chances to talk about what that may or may not to bring about, some of the good and bad that comes from that. I also said think one of the things we will be addressing today is who needs to be at the table in these multi partnership things and it strikes me that thank you very much that in my sort of pro bono part of my life i actually have a foot in most of the camps that need to be a table. Im on a board along with marianne dickason river network, which id cheer that board and it represents more than 500 watershed organizations and citizen advocates, private citizen and the local voice and citizen advocate that is such a critical part of the work that needs to happen around water. I also chaired a board of the Nelson Institute for environment all studies at the university of wisconsin madison and theres academic role, the very important academic role to drive a lot of innovation that we see that then can get commercialized and thats really important. The income i also am on the board of the watered by the federation, which is really a Utility Organization representing primarily wasteWater Utilities and also stormwater into a large extent a lot of overlap with water supply. So, the utility sector needs to be at the table. They are doing a lot and they need to do a lot more. I think that thats me that Partnership Gives me a slightly unique perspective into all those worlds and i am really looking forward to this conversation and to what the role that columbia can play in helping to drive this board. Thank you. Peter, that brings us to you. Good morning, everyone. Im delighted to be here. First of all, thank you to columbia for hosting this. Second, there are a lot of people in the room i know and have known for a long time. Some of whom i have seen twice in one week, which is a remarkable thing. Sometimes i go months without seeing them, so thats sort of exciting. On director of the Pacific Institute in oakland, california , a Nonprofit Research and policy group working on creating and advancing solutions to the worlds pressing water problems. We do a book every two years called the worlds water global water issues. We did a book a couple of years ago on a 21st century us water policy, which i will draw on it today, oxford university. Im a scientist by training, hydrology and climatology and i realize this is a water policy panel, but thats with the institute does, merge science and policy and water as we heard this morning already in interesting comments, so from water deficit to water surplus. Thank you. Actually, you could leave all. You cant address this only with the science. You have to address it with policy. Water is a complicated issue. We work on the corporate sector at the Pacific Institute as well we are the science secretary for someone called the un ceo water mandate, which is part of the un that brings the corporate sector together on water stewardship. Theres the global compact, which is the broad effort to bring the corporate sector together in a sustainability issues and the ceo water mandate , which is the water piece of that we work closely with many of you in the room on the component of this. Im going to stop their. I think we have plenty to talk about. Thank you. Thank you all for your deductions. What are the things we heard at the white house water summit . And by the way thank you for organizing that, it was outstanding. I guess lynn, you brought this up in just asking for a glass of water. Is local and regional and yet policies are often made at the National Level. So, i want to start with the National Level and. , i think im going to start with you because i have heard you testify this topic, but what needs to be done from a National Policy standpoint to address these challenges . Thank you. So, waters local, mostly. The cards of pricing issues we heard about, the regionalization of the smallscale Water Systems we have heard about, state agencies, local agencies. Water really is local, but having said that there are fundamental things that the us needs to do at the federal level and i dont normally like to list of things, but im going to just get the conversation going, so pardon me. It worked well for rick perry, peter. What a sad comparison. I will try to do better than that. I have 11 things and i will go through them fast. Never one, we have to combine and streamline federal agencies. There are a zillion federal agencies dealing with aspects of water. There should not be department of water. On knots adjusting that, but we need to do a better job at the federal level at integrating activities of the federal agencies to deal with water. Number two, we need to revive river basin commissions. States that share rivers, which is almost every state in one form or another need to Work Together to manage those river basins across state boundaries. We need for, National Water commission. That advises the president and commerce on these issues. There has not been a National Water commission in the United States since i think 1970. The world of it different today. Fourth, we have to improve data. The state of water data and this was mentioned earlier and some of these things have been mentioned earlier, it is sad and that is a polite term for it. We dont collect water data on water use. The water data that is collected isnt available and is in paper form our database is not easily accessible. There needs to be a fundamental revolution and there ought to be Given Technology today in the way we collect and distribution manage and use water data. Thats from the National Level to the personal level. We talked about Water Utility bills. This, we have to use a better job we had to do a better job of using at no tools and this was raised as well. Water pricing structures at the local level, but the way the federal government deals with water and the water that it distributes through federally paid for Water Systems is a important part of this. We have to find the state Revolving Loan fund a fully in fact, it ought to be hugely increased in cost and we can talk about that later in the context of the flint disaster. Six, with integrate Climate Change into every aspect of water planning, management and use. Again, some people have already mentioned climate is water and as we change the climate, which we are doing, we are fundamentally altering water availability and quarter quality and distribution and demand. Seven, we have to update federal water laws, the clean water act and the state drink of water act are great laws and greatly out of date. Congress needs to do that and theyre advocating irresponsibility in this is other things. Eighth, demand management and paternity supply are keys to this. We focused in the past on supply. Traditional supply and reservoirs and the grapher us reservoirs, but theres an enormous amount we need to do and have to do and partly are doing on demand management and marianne will talk a lot about this, i imagine, but alternative supplies key also. The idea of created wastewater is critical and i would disagree a bit with ollie. All he made the contract comment about desalination and thats alternative supply of low on my list, but there are other things we ought to do on wasteWater Treatment. Ninth, lets integrate us while her policy with other us policy, energy policy, land is policy, national securing policy and again, we talked of it earlier about energy, but there are a lot of things we do at the federal level that are not explicitly water, but that really are and that we dont integrate. 10th, corporate water stewardship, the corporate sector has a huge role to play here and maybe we can come back to this as well. I know you are interested in this, john and many others are. Its a key part of the future water is figuring out how to move towards sustainability. Finally, Environmental Justice. We have failed grossly in this country at integrating environment of justice issues into water and flint is a good example. The report that was waved around this morning, that sick report on flint, which came out yesterday which i read part of care included concluded one of the most fundamental failures of flint with Environmental Justice failure. There are issues about funding, water cutoffs that was raised this morning. The epa has a standard for how much a family onto to be willing to spend or able to spend on water bills, when and how of your water bill and there are millions of people that probably pay more than that. There is Management Issues in the western us that is unresolved, since it populations to certain kinds of pollutants that have not been addressed. So, its a list, but it gives you some sense of the broad nature of these things and the appropriate federal laws that we can bring. Thank you. You talked about economic tools and i think you talked mainly about federal funding for local and regional if a structure, but im curious about the price of water.