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<br />EXHIBIT C <br /> <br />The committee proceeded to explain what each member believed <br />would happen if the committee failed to complete their task. These <br />beliefs are as follows: <br />1) Economic decline of communities <br />2) Missed opportunity to work together to come up with best <br />solutions to minimize negative impact <br />3) We will fail to see the issues as a part of a "whole" - we will <br />see one side benefit at the sa ke of the other sides <br />4) The public will remain uneducated about the realities <br />agriculture faces in the basin. <br />5) Missed opportunities to really understand and define <br />everybody's interests - Intra-basin and Inter-basin. The <br />rules of play - exactly what is needed for each interest to be <br />met. NOT extremely specific, but baseline. Dialogue: really <br />understand each others positions so that rhetoric can fall <br />away. <br />6) We don't consolidate our understanding so that we have to <br />fight the same issue over and over. A unified of exporters <br />to merge so those who favor non-exporting have one enemy <br />to face. If we have failed here, we have failed to <br />consolidate interests so that we can meaningfully address <br />our differences to come up with workable solutions. <br />7) Spend billions of dollars fighting and everyone loses except <br />the lawyers. Protect what we have instead of tearing each <br />other apart. <br />8) We will maintain the current level of rules and introduce <br />even more uncertainty and chaos and competitiveness about <br />how we are going to use our water supplies - we will keep <br />competing and fighting. <br />9) Lose an opportunity to come up with locally driven <br />collaborative solutions to our water challenges - Intra and <br />Inter. <br />10) Miss opportunity to clarify the rules of the game - stay in an <br />endless loop. <br />11) Lose our options to do what we need to do - lose our <br />flexibility. <br />