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<br />Arkansas Basin Roundtable <br />Water Transfers Committee <br />Solutions Work Group <br /> <br />Members: <br />Lawrence Sena <br />Wayne Vanderschuere <br />Virgil Cochran <br />Frank Wallace <br />Tom Simpson <br />Mark Pifher <br />Dan Henrichs <br />Reeves Brown <br />Jim Broderick <br /> <br />Facilitator: <br />Marylou Smith, Aqua Engineering <br /> <br />Initial Advisors (to be supplemented by others on an "as needed" basis): <br />John Wiener <br />Ken Weber <br />Dave Stewart <br />Doug Kemper <br />James Pritchett <br />Christy Culp <br /> <br />Purpose: <br />Develop a portfolio of prototypes to address issues and mutual benefits associated <br />with transfers of water from agriculture <br /> <br />Solutions Work Group members represent a wide swath of committee members from <br />both agricultural and urban interests. They will work concertedly for several months <br />with the assistance of outside advisors, as needed for input and review, and they will <br />report to the full committee monthly, for committee input and review. Periodically, the <br />committee will report results from the Solutions Work Group to the Arkansas Basin <br />Roundtable. <br /> <br />The outside advisors brought in to assist the Solutions Work Group will be <br />knowledgeable people from various fields including farmers; economists; rural <br />development, legal and financial folks; engineers; agricultural researchers; <br />environmental and recreational folks; etc. These advisors will be invited to come to <br />meetings, as needed, to: <br />. Reality test the group's ideas <br />. Help flesh out the group's ideas <br />. Challenge the group's ideas <br />. Help the group do a benefit/cost analysis, an environmental/recreation <br />analysis <br />. Assure the group is balancing out all the needs <br />. lend the group credibility when its ideas are later challenged <br />