2-07 House Committee Lay Over Unamended

• Title: 2-07 House Committee Lay Over Unamended
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2-07 House Committee Lay Over Unamended

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Madam Chair:

Ms'. Schreier:

Madam Chair:

Ms'. Schreier:

also augmenting stream flows in the process. With locally initiated
and locally led processes the development of these sorts of win-
win solutions is possible when the process is placed, as stated in
the Washington statute, in the hands of people who have the
greatest knowledge of all the resources and the aspirations of those
who live and work in the water shed and who have the greatest
stake in the proper long-term management of those resources.

Without including this local buy-in and suppOli including
voluntary participation by water rights holders, the chances of
acceptance for the outcome of these processes is diminished.

The second point I want to make -

-- waiting for you to get to our bill.

Okay.

Thank you.

Is that as has been noted, cooperation within the _ basins is
critical to moving forward to better water management within the
state, but an important factor in the compact development process
is the leadership by negotiation participants can be seen as
representing of their stakeholder groups and to make commitments
on behalf of those groups or at least secure the commitments of the
groups they're representing.

In the SWSI process local input was involved from the basin
technical roundtables, it provided input, it was selected by the state
consultants and the roles were primarily advisory to the process.
The meetings were organized by the consultants who did much of
the talking at the meetings presenting PowerPoint slides on their
findings and are not analytical approaches, but it was not a process
driven by the local interests who had little incentive to act on the
basis of the findings of the study, a study that did identify issues
and collected important and valuable information, but did not lead
to the development of plans that would result in action.

Bringing these different water interests to the same table and
stimulating discussion is an impOliant step, but did not lead to
action in the basin nor guidance for the individuals representing the
basin in inter-basin discussions.

Article 37 75104, the bill, does discuss a requirement that the basin
roundtables develop a basin wide water supply needs assessment,

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