Hi. My name is Bill Blokist. I'm a professor of Political Science in the School of Liberal Arts at I UPI. My area of research primarily is water resource management and policy. I study the institutions and decision making processes that people use when they're trying to solve water resource problems, either problems of scarcity or quality or sometimes a combination of both. How does this get translated into practice? Well, a few ways for me. I've had the opportunity to work in California on the formation of local agencies and regional agencies for managing water supplies as both a researcher and occasionally consultant. I've had the opportunity overseas in a project sponsored by the World Bank on how decentralization reforms can work out in river basin management issues in different countries around the world. And especially here in Central Indiana, for the last six years, I've had the privilege of being a member of the Board of the White River Alliance, which tries to promote public awareness and good public policy around the protection of our water resources here in the Indianapolis area and throughout the White River watershed. So this has been an opportunity for me to translate my research on how people govern and manage and make decisions about water resources into application in a variety of places over the years, and it's been a privilege to have the opportunity to do that.