"I think you can measure society's health with a number of different metrics. The energy supplies for one, based on where the accessibility, the affordability, the predictability, you could do the same thing with water and water supplies."
"It's been a fascinating hearing. We see over and over again the nexus between water use and energy use, technology, national security."
"There's a well known Civil War Major, one armed veteran, Major Powell who made that very proposal. We're now trying in the West to govern ourselves based on his principles."
"That does not mean that the federal government should become a water regulator and create winners and losers based on water rights."
"Water plays a critical role in the production of the energy that powers our society, especially energy derived from fossil fuels."
"One of the dynamics here that we should acknowledge is that there may be and this is an overused term these days, but it's effective term and there may be game changers."
"We do not know currently what the best technology is. But we do know that if we don't get this one, the environmental risk is incredible."
"we have to throw the kitchen sink at this."
"I also assume that there's even more work in regards to the outreach to the private sector to the VC leaders."
"there's no silver bullet. Maybe there's a lot of silver buckshot."
"Green is the new red, white and blue."