Fellow Lion Kent Fletcher gave an outstanding presentation on 10/15/04 to his/our club concerning local and State water issues.

Here are the current issues facing local irrigation districts according to Kent:

• Proving up claims in adjudication - Overcoming Objections.
• Replacement of Minidoka Dam.
• Finalizing Nez Perce Settlement.
• Implementing Eastern Snake River Plain Settlement agreement.
• Salmon
• Yellowstone Cutthroat trout.
• Snails (Jackson Lake Spring Snail) (Utah Valvata) (Snake River Physa)
• BOR Upper Snake River Projects Biological Assessment.
• Litigation involving Upper Snake river operations.
• Power Costs
• Drought
• Effect of changing technology on water supply and management.
• Generally, trying to determine how to come to grips with all the demand on water and survive.

Kent gave us an overview of water rights and passed out nearly a textbook's worth of handouts! The handouts included photocopies of an interesting advertisement from a circa 1910 Sunset magazine inviting people to consider Burley as a place to make a home. It also included interesting magazine and newspaper articles and other photographs concerning the Los Angeles Acueduct that opened on November 5, 1913. It was a very organized and impressive presentation from this webmaster's point of view.