more water from lake powell to go to lake meade, the potential impacts there are loss of revenues. most power revenues are used to fund environmental programs and other things in the upper basin, and also lake meade and powell continue to drop, potentially those upper basins curtailment under the 1922 contract if they can't deliver over a 10-year period to the lower basin. >> during the times of water storage in the west, we often see these contracts portrayed as agriculture. will you explain how these tensions will be dealt with in arizona, where we're trying to allow growing urban economy, but still maintain healthy agricultural economy? >> there are some tens in arizona between our senior priority users for the colorado river in the yuma, arizona area, in the cities in central arizona, who take central arizona project water, we've been working with the central arizona project and the yuma area ago feweral interests, in trying to come up with a way to do things that create surplus, to try to prop up the levels of lake meade. i think those things have been going fairly well, we do

lake powell to go to lake meade. the impacts are on loss of power revenues. those are used to fund environmental programs in the upper basin. and also if lake meade and powell continue to drop, potentially, those upper basin states are subject to curtailment under the 1922 compact. if they didn't deliver 75 million acre-feet. so the impacts fall on both the upper and lower basin because of the structural deficit. >> during times of water storage in the west we see this as agriculture pitted against the cities. will you explain how these tensions will be dealt with in arizona or are we trying to allow growing urban economy but maintain a healthy agricultural economy? >> there are tensions between the senior priority users and the cities in central arizona who take central arizona project water. we have been work with the start arizona project and the yuma agricultural interest and trying to come up with a way to intentionally create a surplus that secretary conner referred to. i think those have been going fairly well

across the colorado river basin where 40 million residents in seven states rely on water from lake powell and lake meade on the colorado for industrial residential and agricultural needs. the drought in varying degrees has been a fact of life now some 15 years. and the strains are starting to show. most notably at late immediate where lake levels have fallen 130 feet in the last 15 years. at the current rate in the next few years users in arizona and elsewhere could see reductions in their state allocations under the colorado river compact. hydropar operations at lake meade and lake powell could also be curtailed in coming years. i've mentioned in this committee and others potential hydropower impacts remind us of the very strong neckxus between energy and water and that's something i'm watching and very concerned about. in the face of the challenges stemming from drought, water users, federal and others are working to deliver water where it's needed. these actions include state and federal officials working to facilitate together and farmers delaying the date of delivery. of course many

more water from lake powell to go to lake meade, the potential impacts there are loss of revenues. most power revenues are used to fund environmental programs and other things in the upper basin and also lake meade and powell continue to drop, potentially those upper basins curtailment under the 1922 contract if they can't deliver over a 10-year period to the lower basin. >> during the times of water storage in the west we often see these contracts portrayed as agriculture agriculture. will you explain how these tensions will be dealt with in arizona, where we're trying to allow growing urban economy, but still maintain healthy agricultural economy? >> there are some tens in arizona between our senior priority users for the colorado river in the yuma arizona area in the cities in central arizona, who take central arizona project water, we've been working with the central arizona project and the yuma area ago feweral interests in trying to come up with a way to do things that create surplus, to try to prop up the levels of lake meade. i think those things have been going fairly well

of water released for delivery losses and exceeding the volume of water entering lake mead from lake powell even in a normal year and as a result the elevation drops about 12 feet per year. greater than normal flows helped to offset this impact. the drought has kept this from happening. .. creating a sustainable colorado river. it is imperative that the actions not reduce errors -- arizona's flexibility to manage its own water supply

emerson lake and powell. but my music tastes changed on september 11. it was a strange thing.s in another interview and people on the media thought it was a strange political thing -- look, when september 11 happened, heidi and i were living in washington, d.c. south of the pentagon. a good friend of ours was on the plane that crashed into the white house -- pentagon. heidi was in the white house. she is actuated, when the -- evacuated when the first plane hit, a secret service told everyone to stay where you are. she was working at that u.s. trade representative's office and when the second plane hit the secret service began running through the hallways saying, get out. don't walk, run. heidi sprinted out. they would not let her get her car so, she walked home. in her bare feet across memorial bridge. i remember that next night, we put together a prayer service. it was an interfaith prayer service. christian and jewish friends. we sang hymns. i did not lead the hymns. we came together and prayed together. one of the consequences in the aftermath -- i liked how country music r

i saw the police and concert emerson lake and powell but my music tastes changed on september 11. and it was a strange thing. i mentioned it in another interview people and media went all a twitter and thought it was a strange political thing. when september 11 happened heidi and i were living in d.c. just south of the pentagon and indeed we lost a good friend of ours. he was in the plane that crashed into the pentagon. heidi was in the white house on september 11 and she evacuated initially when the first plane hit the world. max hunter initially the secret service told everyone stay where you are. she was working at the u.s. trade representatives office which is part of the white house complex and amend the second plane hit the secret service began running through the hallways saying get out now. don't walk run so heidi sprinted out and they wouldn't let her get her car. so she walked home. she took off her high heals and walked home in her bare feet across memorial bridge and i remember the next night we put together a prayer service with their friends and it was an interfaith