George Schneider is Water Resource Manager, Seattle Public Utilities, responsible for a 16-person unit of civil engineers, fisheries biologists, and other technical staff who develop and manage the water supply, reservoir, and river operations for the Greater Metropolitan Seattle area. He is responsible for supply source utilization and river management decisions, including overseeing an extensive network of data collection, including: stream gauges, snow stations and weather stations. Mr. Schneider leads discussions and negotiations with agencies, tribes, and other organizations concerning water supply, fish and wildlife resource protection, flood control and drought strategies, and manages the development and application of computer models and decision support systems (DSS) used to manage, plan and operate the water supply system, including distribution and transmission networks.