"He was one of the earliest environmentalists to advocate (that) if water could be marketed and moved more freely, it would be used more efficiently and we wouldn't need more dams," said Laura King Moon, assistant general manager for the State Water Contractors, a water industry group. "You could be arguing violently with him one minute and hugging him goodbye a half-hour later. He was a lion in the water environmental movement over the last three decades" King Moon added. Graff was born Jan. 20, 1944, in Honduras to German Jews who had fled Nazi Germany. Full Article at Inside Bay Area