The American West operates as an interconnected water system. Federal infrastructure, interstate compacts, Tribal rights, and local operations move together.
Camille Touton led the largest water delivery system in the United States, serving more than 50 million people across the West.
Featured: Colorado River
The Colorado River is the most complex water system in the United States. Defined by overallocation, legal constraint, and political sensitivity.
Including federal authority, interstate negotiation, and operational decisions under crisis conditions.
What this means for clients:
Federal trust responsibility to Tribal nations in water is among the most consequential and underserved areas of western water law. Touton has spent her career working to convert legal entitlements into actual delivery — from drafting the Claims Resolution Act of 2010 to leading Reclamation's government-to-government consultations as Commissioner.
Her experience working across Tribal, federal, and state contexts informs her advisory approach in this space, grounded in respect for sovereignty, consultation, and long-term stewardship.
Experience overseeing $12 billion in federal infrastructure investment. Understanding not just which projects qualify, but which ones actually get built.
What this means for clients:
Most water challenges are alignment problems across policy, funding, and decision-making structures.
What this means for clients:
Water scarcity does not stop at national borders. Neither does expertise.
As Commissioner, Touton led U.S. engagement on transboundary water management including the U.S.-Mexico Colorado River Minute 330 — a landmark bilateral agreement securing 400,000 acre-feet of conservation through 2026. She served as Head of the U.S. Delegation to COP UNCCD 16 — the UN Convention to Combat Desertification Conference of the Parties — placing American water and land expertise at the center of global desertification and drought policy. She represented the United States at Stockholm World Water Week 2024, participated in the launch of the North American Women in Water Diplomacy Network, and contributed to the White House Global Water Security Strategy connecting domestic water expertise to international policy frameworks.
What this means for clients:
The work is measured by what holds.
Advice grounded in having actually led a 6,000-person federal agency through crisis — not advisory experience alone. The difference between watching from the outside and holding the decision.
Twenty years of experience working across government, Tribal nations, NGOs, agriculture, and industry. Trust built through credible engagement, disciplined process, and respect for institutional roles.
Civil engineer by training. Legislative drafter by career. Few practitioners can translate acre-feet into congressional language — and vice versa — with equal command.
Whether you need strategic counsel, facilitation, or capital alignment — the conversation begins with understanding your situation.