WRRC Hosts Daryl Vigil for Brown Bag Webinar

The WRRC’s 2020 Fall Semester Brown Bag Webinar series began this week with a deeply engaging presentation from Daryl Vigil, co-facilitator of the Water and Tribes Initiative. Vigil’s presentation, Toward a Sense of the Basin: Designing a Collaborative Process to Develop the Next Set of Guidelines for the Colorado River System, outlined a recent report with the same title from the Water and Tribes Initiative that Vigil co-produced. Vigil began by sharing some of his own experiences with the Colorado River to frame the broader discussion of the mission of the Water and Tribes Initiative, which he described as an effort to promote tribal conversations and the inclusion of tribal voices in the formal process of developing the next set of guidelines for the Colorado River. Vigil explained that, as the title suggests, the central motivation behind the project was to really get a sense of the basin, and to understand the diversity of visions for the future of the river held by the spectrum of stakeholders. The product of interviews and workshops, the report identified options for tribal participation and the inclusion of indigenous knowledge and cultural values in water management throughout the basin.