Drought Discussion w/ Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg & Gov. Jerry Brown | Stanford

Submitted by the Event Organizer

California is experiencing its third year of historic drought conditions, with losses to the agricultural sector totaling about $2.2 billion in 2014 alone. On October 20, 2014, The Hamilton Project at Brookings and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment will host a forum and release new papers highlighting opportunities for improving water management in the United States in the face of scarce water supplies.

Free, but an RSVP is required. RSVPs are now sold out, but you can still be put on a waitlist. You can also register for the webcast and tune in wherever you are.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg will give welcoming remarks, followed by an introduction and roadmap of the event by former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin. California Governor Jerry Brown has been invited to give featured remarks on the landscape of water in the West.

Participants include, among others: Robert Glennon of the University of Arizona; Thomas Iseman of the U.S. Department of the Interior; James Lochhead, Chief Executive Officer and Manager of Denver Water; Ellen Hanak, Senior Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California; William Phillimore of Paramount Farming Company; Barton Thompson of The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; Michael Markus of Orange County Water District; Peter Yolles of Water Smart Software; Wade Crowfoot of the Office of California Governor Jerry Brown; Noah Diffenbaugh of The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; Peter Gleick of The Pacific Institute; Solomon Hsiang of the University of California, Berkeley; and Thomas F. Steyer, Investor, Philanthropist and Advanced Energy Advocate.

The forum will close with remarks by Steven Denning of General Atlantic and Chairman of the Board at Stanford University.

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