Our Team, from left to right: Laura, Maricruz, Therese, Tara, Scott, Caitlin, Rachel, Max, Jess, Kelsey, Jeff, Jim, Melissa and Rita
As 2023 comes to a close, we at Schroeder Law Offices want to extend our thanks to all of our clients, friends, consultants and colleagues. It has been an interesting year in the water rights attorney world.
In Nevada we have made great headways in collaborating with Nevada Division of Water Resources and stakeholders on the Humboldt River Basin issues and conjunctive management. Many submitted presentations and ideas ranging from strict prior appropriation all the way to socio-economic management. It is clear that ideas on management range the complete spectrum and it will be interesting how our prior appropriation state will ultimately decide on this issue.
This year I spent a lot of time working with United States Committee for Irrigation and Drainage (USCID) in bringing the organization back online after a changing of our Executive Director during the COVID years. We are glad that is behind us and the organization is back on track and moving forward. At our conference in Fort Collins Colorado I was able to learn about how Colorado tackles and deals with conjunctive management issues. Interestingly, everyone on the river system knows exactly where they are “on the priority line”. Perhaps someday this will be the same mode of operation in Nevada?! If you are interested in USCID, learn more here.
I am excited to participate in USCID and their parent, ICID in working to bring the innovations in irrigation and drainage to other countries and assist in solving world wide water scarcity and shortage problems. I hope to have some international travels in my future as part of this work!
Other work I have done this year, included continuing my Secretarial duties for the Nevada Heritage Foundation, where we promote education in agriculture by providing support and scholarships to Nevada’s youth. As you can tell, promoting agriculture is a passion of mine as it runs in my blood.
Finally, this year is my last year serving on the Board of the Nevada State Bar Environmental & Natural Resource Section. It has been a great tenure and it’s been a great avenue to develop relationships in the legal world with other attorneys practicing in the same areas as Schroeder Law Offices. I firmly believe that building relationship and communication is a key to success in any business.
Well, on that note, we wish you all a wonderful Christmas and Holiday Season and we look forward to a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2024!
~Therese
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