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Webinar: Climate Change and Water Management in Eastern States: Overcoming Barriers to Innovation in Regulated Riparianism


Visit the American Water Resources Association website for more information on this webinar.

Speakers: Lara B. Fowler of Penn State Law, Beth Kinne of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and Matthew E. Draper of Draper & Draper, LLC.

Since 1990, many eastern U.S states have seen significant threats to water quantity for the first time in recorded history. At the same time as spatial and temporal distribution of water is changing, demands for water for municipal use, agricultural use and energy production are increasing, further threatening the predictability and availability of the resource. This webinar analyzed recent state regulatory initiatives and court cases in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut to illustrate some of hurdles water law reform faces in meeting the challenge of climate change and the accompanying evolution of water distribution, and suggest possible ways that state governments might overcome these hurdles. 

11:00 a.m. | Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Q&A to follow. PDH credit available for attendees. Co-sponsored by ABA Water Subcommittee.

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