Attorney Alfred Smith, chair of Nossaman’s Water Group, has extensive experience in water, environmental, transportation and public agency law. He has successfully litigated multiple water right adjudications.

Smith has advised clients on a range of water issues, including the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), Colorado River and pueblo rights, recycled water, water resource development, contamination remediation, groundwater adjudications, water transfers, desalination, conjunctive use, climate change and environmental regulatory compliance. He has also developed Urban Water Management Plans, water supply assessments and environmental impact reports for a wide range of residential and commercial developments.

Smith is an appointed member of the Association of California Water Agencies’ (ACWA) Legal Affairs Committee.

He received his undergraduate degree in rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley, and his law degree from Harvard Law School. He is a 1999 graduate of the Foundation’s Water Leaders class. Smith joined the Foundation’s board in 2022.