Jack Robb
Coordinator of Field Services, Truckee Meadows Water Authority

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  • So what is it you are doing when you are driving around and talking to people?

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  • How big of a challenge is that to be matching up all of these water rights?

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  • Who is your competition?

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  • You don't think it is going to become so valuable that there will become a market where everyone is bidding against each other?

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  • Where are the biggest places you go to? Already developed places?

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  • You don't go to the ranches?

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  • Why is that?

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  • So what do you think is going to happen with the balance between all the water being used and all of the development that we have? Water is going to become more and more scarce.

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  • What do you see for the future? Do you think we are going to run out of water? Do you think water is going to become that scarce?

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  • But there will be a limit, won't there?

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  • Have you ever had a problem where they just aren't coming in?

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  • Even if there isn't a lot of competition, you don't think we are going to dry up all the fields around here even if you don't buy the water rights up but with other people buying them up -- just to hang on to them?

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  • What about some of your big deals on water rights?

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  • Water is going to become like gold -- everyone needs it don't they?

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  • Who is your competition?

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  • Who else buys up water rights? Developers hold them or what?

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  • I would think it would be awfully lucrative -- is it?

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  • Where do you look for water rights? You don't really go to the ranchers?

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  • It's not so much that you are looking for it for the rancher but it's more for the developer?

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  • How does TMWA help stabilize the water rights prices?

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  • And you think TMWA keeps the prices down?

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