i oad in last night withjoel smith and he said wi wink and nunl, never turn down a trip tsan francisco or new orleans. we hve one still lef all right. i'm going to talk about a shared resource in the west and my first thing here is alimpoant dividing line on the upper and lower basin colorado line. this photograph was taken lo 1880's and you will see the lower right, the fnder. john lee is actuly my grant grant grand father. you might think it remarkable to be a descendant of the guy, but he had 21 lives and by my count about 2500 descendants right about now. let's go to the next. you probably all knothe overview o the iver. those that never heard of the colorado river let me give you facts. 7 states and two nations share it. the fastest gowing part of the nation by percentage or numbers. cluding utah, arizona, and nevada and california just on eer numbs. 8 percent of the land area in the united states and it has 60 million acre feet of storage and that's cosest to the highest re e tha35 million people served in an enormouy complicated legal environment what happens after 7 years of dr