Pat Mulroy, a leading figure in Western water and the former general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority who oversaw the agency during a major period of growth and drought, was the guest speaker at the 2016 Anne Schneider Lecture on April 6.

Ms. Mulroy spoke on “Interdependent Resilience: Beyond the Doctrine of Prior Appropriation.” The event was held at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. You can read a blog item here about her lecture.

Ms. Mulroy serves as a nonresident senior fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institute. She also serves as the senior fellow for climate adaptation and environmental policy at the Brookings Mountain West at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

She is a founding chair of the Western Urban Water Coalition, and she was a founding member of the Water Utility Climate Alliance.