2010 International Groundwater Conference
Toward Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture - An International Conference Linking Science and Policy
The June 15-17, 2010 conference will provide scientists, policymakers, agricultural and environmental stakeholders, local, state and federal governmental officials, and consultants with the latest scientific, management, legal and policy advances for sustaining our groundwater resources in agricultural regions around the world.
Topics to be addressed in plenary and technical sessions include:
- Socioeconomic Aspects of Agricultural Groundwater
- Climate, Energy, and Agricultural Groundwater
- Agricultural Groundwater Quality and Contamination
- Conjunctive Use, Agricultural Water Use, and Groundwater Management, Policy, and Regulation
- Groundwater at the Agriculture-Urban Interface
- Groundwater Linkages to Surface Water and Estuaries
Speakers include (partial list):
- Bill Alley, Chief of the U.S. Geological Survey's Office of Groundwater
- Jacob Burke, Senior Water Policy Officer for the FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization)
- Robert Glennon, Author of Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What to Do About It, and Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters
- Tushaar Shah, Senior Fellow for the International Water Management Institute in India
- Michael Hightower, Sandia National Laboratories, author of Congressional report “Energy Demands on Water Resources”
- David Orth, General Manager, Kings River Conservation District
- Karen Burow, National Water Quality Assessment Program, USGS
- Pamela Creedon, Executive Officer, Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board
The conference is sponsored by the Robert M. Hagan Endowed Chair. A former UC Davis professor, Hagan was one of the Foundation's founding board members and served as board president for many years.
Visit www.ag-groundwater.org for more details about the conference.