Eastern water resources law is undergoing substantial challenges and change. Concerns regarding the impacts of longer-term climate change, coupled with near-term critical issues associated with recent severe drought in the southeast, intensifying interstate disputes, and fights over reservoir management have highlighted the need to reexamine and adjust riparian systems and seek innovations to address and resolve new and evolving conflicts. Join your colleagues to hear some of the nation’s leading experts discuss key issues of importance to every water using sector and interest.

Conference Highlights

• Introductory plenary session on Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources: Legal and Policy Responses
• Featuring Keynote Speaker Benjamin H. Grumbles, Assistant Administrator for Water, U.S. EPA, speaking about the water transfer cases and proposed EPA regulation and the impacts of Rapanos
• An in-depth discussion of Hot Cases and Emerging Issues
• A plenary session on Evolving Interstate Water Disputes
• A discussion of The Future of Riparianism
• A breakout session covering Innovations in Protection and Management of Water Resources
• A session on the Effective Use of ADR in Water Resources Disputes
• A discussion of the Reallocation of Storage in Federal Reservoirs

Who Should Attend
The conference will be of interest to anyone involved in water issues in the eastern United States, including lawyers, consultants, developers, businesses utilizing large quantities of waters, public utilities, government policy makers and planners, tribal governments and academics. There will be many opportunities to meet and talk with the speakers and fellow attendees interested in eastern water rights issues.

Michelle Diffenderfer
Lewis, Longman & Walker, P.A.
West Palm Beach, FL

R. Timothy Weston
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP
Harrisburg, PA