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9:27 in East Clark County specifically, we really have to make sure that we're asking that question up front of do we have enough water for this growth and where is it going? And so part of that is making sure that we're asking those questions up front and that we're not waiting until we have a problem but then trying to solve it. And so we've got a lot of rural, so water is important towards obviously the agriculture out in Klickitat, we've got the wildfires out in Skamania, and so we've got to make sure that we protect precious resources of water and we've got to make sure we've got enough here before trying to send it elsewhere. >> Thank you. Candidate Waters? >> Thank you. And water rights are huge. You know, some folks think that water rights are only a rural issue but they are urban as well. I have the pleasure of serving as the tribal liaison with 29 tribes. So we talk about salmon, we talk about fish recovery there and how important that is. But we did just see a fishery shut down in Washougal that was really tough.

10:27 So how do we make sure that those guys have the support? That took off about three, 400,000 steelhead. Something that, you know, I don't really like going around saying that we had to do. I think that's something that our budget cuts should address. But we also have farmland that we have right here locally farms that need more water. And lastly I'll say that with our farmers it goes from here all the way to Goldendale that we see the number one rate of death right now for farmers is suicide and how do we address that? And it all boils down to restrictions, it boils down to rules that we have for the folks that are working with water every single day from tribes to farms. Thank you. >> Thank you. Candidate Haynes. >> My understanding of the water rights issue comes from a much -- from a higher level position usually around international and treaties such as tribes, the tribal rights to water in my opinion do need to kind of come first but there also needs to be an acknowledgement

11:24 that you can't just use all the water that you have the right to as water does trickle down to the next person in line. And of course our farmers and other resources like agricultural water, municipal water supplies for people at home, things like that, we have robust infrastructure of course to handle all that. I used to speak to and work with the man who manages Seattle's water supply so I have a