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thay we nd hat' wq. and t rsing mo important tan science a that politics. xt slide. what shouldn'be done? don't assu future limate will look like the past. actually'll say ione ore time n the conclusion. donot justify acons sing climate change without the science to sun thr tifoth ons. m going o okher big e be'i e om so an'ckut e govern poptwo e surfacesi caforniae e prt of the uuifat wais imatgean iblempacton torag ople anodointo elieve
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ificiofor oi mebunot necsa an gumefdg ertain large investmentad buig things wa te out bld tuorte wro reon n't say anore about that. let me cclude. manager's d planners, city and state water manager's ca loer asme thewater conditions and clime change wi look ike thpast. th how we designedthe rules by which we oerate. r wter resoces are sensitive to climate. but our systems are snsitive to the wmnage h w d. wehave t hink not just
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risk policy manager's have the opportunity to o this. we lready maner or variability and risk. we build homes arthque s khow igr whhe ahq ll b weger riskand ools for oing at nau doinnoue n anning or atual on he und ion. do nto tkem he gr aion.ultimaly t i w dend our lity t ged o the is adoan implemans and is is te ace is, cause as mas e k e esrises and thin wwt knowi va awe oo abto be
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aractezation f precipitation isnot nlike today. not rain vers sno but he totawater vole s sill looking a llike the mer climate. >> let me ta acracat this. 's a great questi. its the arrier that a lot o water age face. on the,pa leo cmate, side e te past will e me deal with floods ad rough properly eal witthem if we had abetter since of th rom rin i he
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1920s we wou probly make different assumptions onthe corado river maybe wewould not but was informatiow did not have about climattat wuld have changed potentiay a desion th watemanag's and liticians had. going nto he few uh-uhture, mager's and planrs haa lot of tools for dealing with these kinds of variabilities thatwe aveto fac paicarly, whatwe're suggesting isnot to do anything different but include abroader rao future climas in our plan. that maybe degninothing, if o buiing from scratch ffertly tn if there water climate change. mntto ask aurine,she
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deribethe - well, what want to know is are they vaing the desali, no one f hem ie seen account for rising sea level example. it might be onfor some noall ofthem. are they e evaluated derhigher teature scenarios. e thyield numbers being evaluated that. are the ones ur existing scenars d i'd like to kw thatand if te aswer is, no, it ought tbe. it will eect the enoc decisis made and ultimately investments in part frastructure
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we may choose not to d many thgs differently, nd accept higher level of risk, but i would argue that i we're smart we will do things diffy to reduce xposure for the future just ecause it caout yesterday. the department of ater resources has done a nmberof runs wh reservoirs in nflows in te sierraarea anit's 0 percenof nflows likely from toy. the worst case i reduio of 19 ercent abig reduction. upstreama, fsom, yesterday it was ike t billion dar to build th eserir a
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that's great examplefor water managers to tke wha ismns. it's clearly amistakes ild something thawater magers assume theycan pture mighliterally bege sel cades. >> o the nt t we can't assume tt the pst islike e future,um...you mentioned hydrauc models. i'm wonderg if there's any practical models and i'll ake the point wi insance industries when hey s rate are required tusa essage that factors the past and not the ture. theres the ew modelthat he insurance industrwantsto use and they've all been modified since-katrina ad they have
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three mols but ty ave now vised tir catastrophe model to iorporate climate sience anof course, iurance mpanies want to be able t go by hose models nd i'm wondering if suchpractical tools are being dvelopefr watemanageme. >> llthe sht nswer i absolutely, ye the umm itatn ri in a thecn l. a lt ftis- ihpeingswn tmein ab s kiwi or
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