Agriculture and Rural Resilience are Vital to Meeting our Water and Climate Challenges Speakers: Scott Leaser, Clean Water Wisconsin and Michael Tiboris, River Alliance of Wisconsin Water has been an important topic across Wisconsin for many years but legislative efforts to protect and clean-up our water resources have been limited at best. Climate change will only exacerbate our water challenges and efforts to address them, but working in concert to address climate change and protect our water resources can and must diversify and strengthen rural communities and agricultural systems.