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Welcome mursda1J :JYCay 29J 1997 HENRyVAUXJR., PH.D., PRESIDENT, WATER EDUCATION FOUNDATION On behalf of the Water Education Foundation, I am pleased to welcome you to this symposium on the Colorado River Compact. Seventy-five years ago the final negotiations on the Colorado River Compact took place here at Bishop's Lodge. Today we have assembled a distinguished group of historians, engineers and legal scholars, as well as those respon- sible for managing water resources in the Colorado Basin, to consider the impact and consequences of the Compact. The panel discussions in which you will participate during the next two and a half days will be concerned with the recollections and under- standings of the history of the Compact negotiations and what happened in the wake of those negotiations. It is our hope and expectation that you will examine that hisrory and extract from it some important lessons for the future. Let me say a few words about the Water Education Foundation itself. We are pleased to convene this Signers of the 1922 Colorado River Compact SYMPUSllJM PROCEED]'JCS MAY 1997 o symposium. The mission of the nonprofit Water Education Foundation is to develop and implement education programs leading to broader understanding of water issues and to the resolution of Western water problems. To that end, the Foundation develops programs to inform school children, decision-makers and the media. The presentations and discussions at this symposium will have a variety of outlets, including formal proceedings much like the formal proceedings that emanated from the 60th anniversary symposium, articles in western Water magazine, materials for journalists and possibly a video on Colorado River water issues. Let me say a word, finally, about the support for this symposium. We have several major sponsors and I want to acknowledge them. They include the CH2M Hill Companies, the Dames & Moore Group, Jones and Stokes Associates, Montgomery Watson and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Additional funding was provided by Boyle Engineer- ing Corporation, the Sacramento-based law firm of Downey, Brand, Seymour and Rohwer and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. This support has helped to underwrite the costs of materials for the symposium as well as the publica- tions which we expect will flow from this symposium. The Water Education Foundation is grateful to all of these supporters for helping to make this event possible. Now it is my pleasure to introduce the executive director of the Water Education Foundation, Ms. Rita Schmidt Sudman.