Agenda
8:00 am ​
Registration and Breakfast
8:45 am
Student Session: Water Law 101
9:15 am ​
Break
9:30 am
Welcome and Introduction
​Cassandra Kerkhoff '14 & Vincent Vu '15, Symposium Chairs
Professor John Leshy, UC Hastings College of the Law
10:00 am
​Break
10:15 am
​​SESSION 1A: The Quantification Settlement Agreement: A Salton Sea of Problems 
10:15 am​​
SESSION 1B: Water Supply and Usage in California as Seen by NASA
11:30 am
Break
11:45 am
​SESSION 2A: Winegrowing: At the Intersection of Water Conservation, Water Quality Regulation, and Climate Change Adaptation
​11:45 am​
SESSION 2B: Sustainable Storage in the Face of Climate Change 
1:00 pm
​Lunch
Keynote Address
Lester Snow, Executive Director at the California Water Foundation
2:00 pm
​Break
2:15 pm
​​SESSION 3A: The Potential Costs and Benefits of Desalination in California
2:15 pm
SESSION 3B:The Hetch Hetchy Controversy
3:30 pm
Break
3:45 pm
SESSION 4A: Increased Freshwater Flow in the Delta: Different Agencies, Different Perspectives (BDCP/Delta Plan Panel)
3:45 pm
​SESSION 4B: Contaminants of Emerging Concern: The Next Generation of Water Quality Oversight
5:00 pm
​Conclusion
Reception

Panel Description

The Quantification Settlement Agreement: A Salton Sea of Problems

Moderator

Andy Sawyer
Assistant Chief Counsel, State Water Resources
​Control Board

Panelists

Dan Hentschke
Chief Legal Officer at San Diego County
​Water Authority
Luis Olmedo
Executive Director at Comite
​Civico del Valley
Professor Charles DuMars
Emeritus, University of New
​Mexico School of Law
Professor Tony Rossmann
UC Berkeley Law

Water Supply and Usage in California as Seen by NASA

Moderator

Tom Hicks
Attorney at Law

Panelists

Forrest Melton
Senior Research Scientist, CSUMB/NASA
​Ames Research Center
Sonia Salas
Director of Science and Technology at 
​Western Growers 
Ed Sheffner
Deputy Chief, Earth Science Division, NASA
​Ames Research Center

Winegrowing: At the Intersection of Water Conservation, Water Quality Regulation, and Climate Change Adaptation

Moderator

Michael Lauffer
Chief Counsel, State Water Resources Control Board

Panelists

Peter Kiel
Partner at Ellison, Schneider & Harris
Martin Mendez-Costabel
Manager, GIS and Remote Sensing Group, Department of
​Wine and Grape Supply, E&J Gallo Winery 
Jean-Pierre Wolff
Owner and Vintner, Wolff Vineyards; Board Member,
​ Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board

Sustainable Storage in the Face of Climate Change

Moderator

Steve Westhoff
Staff Counsel, State Water Resources Control Board

Panelists

Cliff Lee
Deputy Attorney General, Natural Resources
​Law Section, California Department of Justice
Jason Peltier
Chief Deputy General Manager, Westlands Water District
Jay Lund
Director of Center for Watershed Sciences at
UC Davis; Professor of Civil and Environmental
​ Engineering at UC Davis
Katerine Spanos
Retired Assistant Chief Counsel, Department of Water Resources; Author of “Cry Me a Reservoir: Water Management and Climate Change Adaptation”, Environmental Law News (Summer 2013)

The Potential Costs and Benefits of Desalination in California

Moderator

Philip Wyels
Assistant Chief Counsel, State Water Resources Control Board

Panelists

Dan Hentscke
Chief Legal Officer at San Diego County Water Authority
Stephan Volker
 Proprietor, Law Offices of Stephan C. Volker
Conner Everts
Executive Director of Southern California Watershed
​Alliance and Co-Chair of the Desal Response Group
Gary Wolff
Executive Director, Stop Waste

The Hetch Hetchy Controversy

Moderator

Jay Lund
Director, The Center for Watershed Sciences,
UC Davis; Professor of Civil and Environmental
​Engineering, UC Davis

Panelists

Jennifer Clary
Clean Water Action
Spreck Rosekrans
Restore Hetch Hetchy
Steve Ritchie
Assistant General Manager of the Water Enterprise,
​San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

Increased Freshwater Flow in the Delta: Different Agencies, Different Perspectives
(BDCP/Delta Plan Panel)

Moderator

Professor Paul Stanton Kibel
 Golden Gate University School of Law

Panelists

Phil Isebberg
Vice Chair, The Delta Stewardship Council
Cynthia Koehler
Executive Director and Co-Founder at WaterNow.org
Richard Roos-Collins
Principal, Water and Power Law Group PC

Contaminants of Emerging Concern: The Next Generation of Water Quality Oversight

Moderator

Michael Kiparsky
Wheeler Institute for Water Law & Policy

Panelists

Samuel Brown
Assistant Regional Counsel, EPA Region 9
Theresa Dunham
Shareholder, Somach Simmons & Dunn
Ian Wren
Staff Scientist, San Francisco Baykeeper
Adam Olivieri
Principal Engineer, EOA, Inc.

Thank You to Our Sponsors

Host Sponsor
  • University of San Francisco
Participant Schools
  • UC Berkeley School of Law
    ​Golden Gate University
  • University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law
  • UC Davis School of Law
  • UC Hasting College of Law
Advertising Sponsor
  • Maven's Notebook
  • The Bar Association of San Francisco
  • McCarthy Center For Public Service and the
    ​Common Good
  • University of San Francisco
Keynote Sponsors
  • ​Briscoe Ivester & Bazel LLP
Symposium Sponsors
  • Stoel Rives LLP
  • Water and Power Law Group PC
Panel Sponsors
  • Hanson Bridgett
  • Schneider & Harris LLP
  • RMM
  • Somach Simmons & Dunn
  • Downey Brand LLP Ellison
  • Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard
Contributing Sponsors
  • University of San Francisco Master of Science
    ​in Environmental Management
  • Rossmann and Moore
  • Cline Family Cellars
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