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23 Based on formal written comments presented by J. Matusak at the Symposium on Climate Variability,
Climate Change, and Water Resource Management, Colorado Springs, CO, October, 1997.
24 According to Colorado River water facts on Metropolitan's website:
25 Interviewees included SSD principal investigators from the University of Colorado, University of
Arizona, and Utah State University with expertise in law, economics, hydrology, sociology, and public
administration. Additional interviewees included State Engineers or their equivalents from Nevada,
Wyoming, Arizona, Utah, and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California; officials from the
Bureau of Reclamation's Lower and Upper Colorado Regional Offices and the Commissioner's Office in
Washington, DC; representatives from the Colorado River Board of California, the Colorado River
Water Conservation District, the Western States Water Council, and the Upper Colorado River
Commission; and water resource policy experts not directly involved in authoring the SSD from the
University of Wyoming, and University of California, and the Environmental and Societal Impacts
Group at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Of the additional group, eight served as
members of the Advisory Council, with their geographic allegiance noted.
26 Interviewees included: experts on the socio-economic impacts of climate variability and change from
the JISAO-CIG, and the Center for Analysis of Environmental Change, Oregon State University;
fisheries experts from the National Marine Fisheries Service and the University of Washington; a
representative from the industry-group the Columbia River Alliance; a representative of the Northwest
Power Planning Council; and a climate and resource policy expert from the Environmental and Societal
Impacts Group at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
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