The winner of this package will receive this autographed copy of "The Water Problem" by Pat Mulroy, invitation to the CREW Las Vegas Monthly Luncheon on July 13 at the Las Vegas Country Club. The Luncheon will feature Pat Mulroy, Senior Fellow at Metropolitan Policy Program. The Monthly Luncheon Meeting features a networking opportunity at 11:30, with the Presentation from 12:00 - 1:30.

The United States faces a water crisis as critical as the energy crisis that once dominated headlines. Like the energy crisis, a solution can be found. Pat Mulroy, for many years general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, the lead negotiator on the Colorado River for the State of Nevada, and a Brookings fellow, has gathered a number of practitioners and scholars to show us why we face a crisis caused by climate change and what we can do to alleviate it.

While the focus has been on California recently, with its water restrictions and drought, many other parts of the United States are also suffering from current and potential water shortages that will only be exacerbated by climate change. The Water Problem takes us to Miami and the problem of rising oceans fouling freshwater reservoirs; Kansas and Nebraska, where intensive farming is draining age-old aquifers; and to the Southwest United States, where growing populations are creating enormous stresses on the already strained Colorado River.

Mulroy and her contributors explore not just the problems, but also what we can do now to put in place measures to deal with a very real crisis.