The Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College invites the public to “Reconciling Water Rights, Law, Justice, and Ecology in the 21st Century” with guest speaker Eric Perramond on Monday, October 5th at 6:00 p.m. in the Center’s Lyceum Room. Perramond is an Associate Professor of Environmental Science & Southwest Studies at Colorado College, in Colorado Springs and a geographer by education. He is the author of Political Ecologies of Cattle Ranching in Northern Mexico: Private Revolutions (2010, University of Arizona Press), and has been working on this New Mexico water adjudication project since 2006. Perramond will discuss why water rights adjudications are one of the most consequential state procedures in the American West. These legal and administrative pursuits quantify, and locate, every water rights user in each state. Why do we know so little about these adjudications? What are their consequences for water users in New Mexico? And most importantly, what does the water adjudication process tell us about our changing cultural relationship with water itself? This lecture is free to the public.