Sessions

Program and presenters subject to change.

Thematic Session 1: Adapting to the impacts of global changes on river basins and aquifer systems

Breakout workshops:

1.1 Assessment of impacts of global changes on water quality and availability in river basins

Podium:
H. Amro "Water Challenges between climate changes and increased water demand, case study from Jordan"

K.D.Sharma "Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Low Flow in a Representative River Basin in India"

Kurt Schwabe "The impacts of changes in freshwater and groundwater supply characteristics on irrigated agriculture in a closed drainage basin: California Central Valley"

Nnyaladzi Batisani "Spatio-temporal variability of stream flow drought in Botswana: implications for water security"

Maarten Krol "On the assessment of large scale effects of small scale reservoirs under current conditions and climate change"

Posters:
Osman Ahmed "Water Scarcity in Kenya"

Ahmed Abrishamchi "Long-lead probabilistic streamflow forecasting using ensemble streamflow prediction and large scale climate signals"

Peter Downs "Climate change, hydrologic forcing, and geomorphic response"

Saad Alghariani "Diversion of the Congo River to Lake Chad and Southeastern Libya"

Daina Kalnina "Implementation of Stockholm convention in new EU member states and new aspects of problem regarding persistent organic pollutants and washing agents as water pollutants"

Miah Muhammed Adel "Virgin River flow division risks groundwater arsenic contamination"

David Haim "Economic Impact of climate change on Israeli agriculture"

1.2 Assessment of impacts of global changes on water quality and availability in aquifer systems

Podium:
P.E. O’Connell " Predicting the impacts of climate and land use change on West Bank rainfall"

Henrique Chaves "Assessing and mitigating the impacts of climate change and human activities on groundwater quantity and quality of the Guarani Aquifer in Ribeirao Preto, Brazil"

William Hutchinson "Climate change impacts on municipal water management in El Paso, Tx"

David Lean "Influence of climate change on water quality in temperate lakes and rivers"

Igor Zektser "An Experience for Regional Assessment and Mapping of Fresh Groundwater Resources"

Posters:
R.K. Srivastava "Groundwater assessment and recharge potential for water stressed areas-Allahabad City, India"

M. Polemio "Droughts and groundwater depletion in southern Italy"

N.L. Miller "Drought scenario analysis of the Ca Central Valley surface- groundwater conveyance system"

AminHassani "Water Scarcity in Iran; evaporation from Saveh Dam reservoir"

Hossein Ganjidoust "GIS perspective of nitrate subsurface water contamination in the great city of Tehran"

1.3 Water scarcity issues in water sectors, hydrological extremes and emergency situations, vulnerability and resilience

Podium:
Iulia Barbu "LID-SWM Practices as a means of resilience to climate change and effects on groundwater recharge"

Kenneth Pomeranz "China’s water crises"

Richard Taylor "The problematic exclusion of basin storage in current assessments of future water scarcity"

Sheryle Quinn "Sustainable stormwater controls under climate change: impacts on watershed ecohydrology"

1.4 Arsenic and groundwater

Podium:
Satinder Ahuja "Arsenic contamination of groundwater"

Chad Salitkov "Geomicrobiology of iron and arsenic in anoxic sediments"

Dipankar Chakraborti "Groundwater arsenic contamination and health effects in the Ganga- Meghna-Brahmaputra Plain"

Imamul Huq "Arsenic Contamination in food chain: Bangladesh"

Arup SenGupta "Arsenic crisis in the Indian subcontinent"

Abul Hussam "Groundwater arsenic filters based on composite iron matrix"

Scott Fendorf "Near-surface release processes sustaining hazardous arsenic concentrations in Asian aquifers"

Posters:
Kate Campbell "The effect of reductive mineral dissolution and porewater chemistry on arsenic mobilization"

Miah Mohammed Adel "Sono Filter waste disposals contradict safe environmental regulations"

1.5 Water-Energy Nexus

Posters:
Ronnie Cohen "Energy down the drain: water-energy-climate"

Clark Liu "Renewable energy driven water desalination for Pacific islands and remote coastal communities"

John Sheehan "Defining sustainable biofuels"

Robert Wilkinson "Integrating water and energy resource management in the context of climate change"

Barbara Carney "DOE/National energy technology laboratory’s power plant-water r&d program"

Ratnesh Sharma "Water efficiency management in datacenters"

Posters:
S. Stephens-Romero "Water demands associated with deployment of hydrogen infrastructure in southern CA"

D.L. West Marrin "Water requirements and impacts associated with alternative energy sources"

1.6 Integration of geospatial data for modeling of hydrological extremes

Podium :
Lorenzo Begnudelli "Rapid-response modeling of dam-break floods: A global approach"

Steven Burian "Regional-scale emergency flood management: desktop parallel computing and 1D-2D simulation integration"

Wouter Buytaert "Using remotely sensed data for water management in the tropics"

Timothy McPherson "Novel computational architectures for integrated infrastructure, community and economic flood hazard analysis"

Brett Sanders "Integral formulation of shallow-water equations with anisotropic porosity for urban flood modeling"

Nigel Wright "Generating unstructured meshes and resistance parameters for urban modeling"

Poster:
A. Gafurov "Water availability using remote sensing in data scarce conditions"

Thematic Session 2: Strengthening water governance for sustainability

Breakout workshops:

2.1 Economic, financial and planning issues supporting water governance

Podium:
Ajit Bera "Groundwater management for sustainable rural development in the Gangetic Delta, India"

C. Witchendahl "Virtual water: more than an economic concept, legal/institutional"

M.P. Palicios "Desalination vs. reclaimed water resuse under sustainability criteria: the energy point of view"

Alfonso Rivera "Preparing for Groundwater Sustainability in Canada within the North-American context"

Ricardo Sandoval "Smoothing out the trialogue’s edges: science and groundwater governance in Mexico"

Posters:
C. Witchendahl "Biofuels: a potential solution for climate change or an environmental and social threat to Bolivian resources and society?"

Najmus Rehmani "Water management at Rawal Dam, Islamabad: a solution to continuous supply of drinkable water for Rawalpindi area"

Douangchanh Lopaying "Transparent setting water tariff in between household affordability and willingness to pay for water supply in small towns, Lao PDR"

2.2 National contemporary water policies and legislations and global environmental law

Podium:
Jon Schutz "US Water rights law"

Sharon Moran "New Currents in water governance"

Hatem Ali "Development of Arab water sustainability index using principal component analysis"

Lorenzo Galbiati "Water scarcity and drought in Europe"

Jim Thebaut & Erik Webb "A water strategy for the US"

Jo Eimers "Federal science and technology to support management of the nation’s water resources"

Posters:
Rebecca Nalunkuuma "Poverty alleviation and water quality protection in scarce water resources"

George Ogendi "Social-economic challenges and water policy in sub-Saharan Africa"

2.3 Governance and public participation

Podium:
AFM Afzal Hussain "Water scarcity, global changes and groundwater management in North West region of Bangladesh"

Philippus Wester "Nothing without the users: a reassessment of the development of aquifer management councils (COTAS) for sustainable groundwater management in Guanajuato, Mexico"

Suzanne Pierce " Socio-technical support for managing aquifers"

Nancy Steele "Reclaiming Urban Watersheds: A Model of collaboration for integrated watershed management in the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers Watershed"

Mohammed Zaidi "Green water utilization to combat water scarcity"

Posters:
Mohammed Ellatifi "Management of water resources under climate variability and socio- economic pressures, case study Morocco"

Richard Ingwe "Water scarcity, chronic poverty and violence in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta: impediments to the adoption of governance"

Alassane Bah "Water and pastures management in Senegalese Sahelian area"

Vasco Silva "Water quality in small agricultural basins"

Imran Khalid "Gender and Water in developing countries"

2.4 Transboundary large river and aquifer systems management in the world

Podium:
Carmen Maganda "The impact of regional integration on transboundary water management: politics, planning and public participation in water governance"

Han Zaisheng "Transboundary aquifers in Asia with case study of Heilongjiang- Amur river basin"

Sarah Olmstead "Water Scarcity, economic development and political sustainability; exploring the connections in the Fergana Valley"

David Kreamer "The Future of Groundwater Quality in sub-Saharan Africa"

Robert Wilkinson "Climate change and water resources in the Nile basin"

Posters:
Loay Froukh "Difficulties facing Palestinian water resources sustainability"

Niels Riegels "An economics-driven approach for optimizing water use at the river basin scale in transboundary or other non-cooperative environments"

Miah Mohammed Adel "Ordeals to have due share of transboundary river water"

Fathi Elosta "The simulation geological for water shortage from Jifarah plain basin northwest of Libya"

2.5 Transboundary large river and aquifer systems management: US-Mexico

Podium:
Elaine Hebard "Proposed roadmap: a draft model for collaborative operation of transboundary watersheds"

Perlita Dicochea "Race, Nation and the fragmentation of transnational watersheds"

Malissa McKeith & Jay Stein "Issues in the internationall management of groundwater: the All-American Canal case"

Christopher Scott "Building shared vision: assessment of transboundary aquifers along the US-Mexico border"

Juan Valdes "From GCM projections to DSS models: climate change and decision making in a transboundary basin: the San Pedro (Arizona/Sonora)"

Thematic Session 3: Ecohydrology for sustainability

Breakout workshops

3.1 Groundwater-dependent ecosystems and new ecohydrological approaches

Podium:
Leonard Konikow "Groundwater depletion: US National assessment and global perspective"

Nicholas Ashbolt "Reconfiguration of water-energy systems for healthy and sustainable urban water management"

Christine Mukwaya "Assessment of the response of groundwater levels to climate change and abstraction in selected areas of Uganda"

Erik Christensen "Modeling PAH, PCB, and PBDE sources and degradation in aquatic sediments"

Victor Heilweil "Current and future challenges to groundwater sustainability in the Great Basin Carbonate Aquifer system, Nevada and Utah"

Posters:
Prakesh Tiwari "Land use changes and conservation of water resources in Himalayan headwaters"

Wael Al-Azaizeh "Hydrogeology of the shallow aquifers at Wadi el-Ghussein, Jordan"

Tairu Salami "Interactions between atmosphere, ecosystem and marine environment in Nigeria"

J. Kim "A projection of the hydroclimate in CA using JIFRESSE Regional Earth System Model"

Ghulam Hussain "Effect of water salinity on survival and growth of landscape trees in Saudi Arabia"

3.2 Southern California/Middle East common ground: scarcity of water, innovation and the need for collaboration

Podium:
Celeste Cantu, Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority

Samer A. Talozi, Water Resources & Irrigation Engineering, Jordan

Moshe Gaon, Gaon Agro Technologies, Israel

3.3 Augmenting scarce water resources and strategies to improve the quality of life

Podium:
Narenda Choudhary "Surfacewater-groundwater interactions and impacts of climate variability on aquaculture"

Robert Collar "Potable use of extremely impaired groundwater in California"

Aakash Desai "The carbon footprint of municipal wastewater"

D. Waliser "Sensitivity of the snowpack simulations associated with snow- related model physics"

Khaled Abu-Zeid "Sustainable development of non-renewable groundwater"

Mike Wireman "Aquifer-based groundwater management"

Posters:
S.K.Sharma "Roof-top rainwater harvesting technique in urban areas"

B. Bashir "Water and sanitation services in the West Bank and Gaza Strip"

Deepak Jhajharia "Optimal water resources development of Pravara sub-basin"

Mohammed Sbeih "The role of supplementary irrigation as a tool for drought management in a semi-arid country"

Adam Canfield "Percolation Decay model for optimization of surface water recharge basins"

Joseph Saens "Djubouti Horn of Africa"

3.4 Clean water scarcity and risk management

Podium:
Susan Kilani "Pollution prevention for environmental health protection"

Orish Orisakwe "Nitrate and nitrite levels of potable water supply in Warri, Nigeria"

Tareg Bey "The meteorological effects of global warming"

S. Dhanalekshmy "Quality of life of the people in developing countries in respect to the quality of water"

Uthpal Kumar "Municipal wastewater reuse for agriculture"

Marian Nkansah "Physicochemical studies of water from selected boreholes in the Bosomtwi-Atwima-Kwanwoma district, Ghana"

Posters:
Syed Rahman "Investigation of shallow tubewell water quality considering nearby latrine influence in rural Bangladesh"

Ziad Al-Ghazawi "Demonstration and documentation of safe wastewater reuse in agriculture"

T.G. Apata "The lingering failure of sanitation in the urban areas of Nigeria"

3.5 Public Health

Podium:
Sunny Jiang "Bacteria and viruses in coastal waters: implications to public health from CA coast to Bay of Bengal"

Hoon Chin Lim "Averting disaster: challenges facing public health depts. in early detection of drinking water contamination"

Kristi Koenig "Surge capacity-the 3S concept: without water, is it a disaster?"

A.M. Gbadebo "Assessment of quality of groundwater from Lagos Metropolis and possible health implications"

Poster:
Joonseon Jeong "Free radical destruction of tetracycline antibiotics in aqueous solution"

Thematic Session 4: Water and Life Support Systems

Breakout workshops

4.1 Monitoring

Podium:
Jianyao Chen "Assessment of groundwater resources and environmental problems in the North China Plain"

A. Abrishamchi "Optimal design of groundwater quality monitoring using entropy theory"

Hamisai Hamandawana "Monitoring transitions in vegetation cover to detect long-term trends in groundwater resources"

David Toll "NASA water resources program contributions to global water management"

Hans-Peter Plag "Developing the global geodetic observing system into a monitoring system for the global water cycle"

Peter Van Oevelen "Expected contributions from new soil moisture observations to predictability of regional climate on a seasonal scale"

Posters:
D. Edwards "Groundwater mapping using airborne electromagnetic technology"

El Sayed El Gammal "Geoenvironmental functions control the water quality, the wells in the eastern desest of Egypt"

Emanuele Romano "Analysis of drought events in the Tiber Basin by means of standardized indices"

Gul Aycik "The use of environmental radionuclides in study of erosion and sedimentation"

Jurate Landwehr "Distinguishing sources of tapwater as being of groundwater vs. surface water origin by means of stable isotopes"

Wynee Hu "Characterizing water inputs to catchments in the Santa Monica mountains"

Justin Sheffield "Drought monitoring over Africa: development of real time hydrologic modeling system and assessment of remotely sensed precipitation products"

A. Gachet "Application of remotely sensed data for groundwater exploration in developing countries, case study Sudan"

Brahim Kerroumi "Touat, hydraulic society in mutation"

4.2 Modelling and forecasting and traditional management techniques

Podium:
Melanie Bauer "The water resources assessment criterion WQQI"

Ahmed Murad "Challenges facing the sustainability of conventional water resources in the UAE"

Jon Fenske "Surface water-groundwater software coupling"

A. Abrishamchi "Forecasting urban groundwater level applying artificial neural network (ANN) linked to geographic information system (GIS)"

Poster:
Sudhir Singh "Conceptual hydrological model for Sutlej River basin in Nangal Thesil at Rupnagar district Punjab, India by GIS using remote sensing and ancillary data"

4.3 Wastewater treatment and reuse and pollution control

Podium:
Zheng Zheng "Pollution control measures and demonstration projects for a mixed- polluted inflow river of Taihu Lake and its watersheds"

Sungphil Jung "Development and application of a novel mercury leak-free mid- pressure UV reactor"

Hyokwan Bae "Ozonation of tetracycline in water"

Virender Sharma "Ferrate (VI) technology in treating endocrine disruptors and pharmaceuticals in water"

Christie Chatterley "UV-LEDs for point-of-use water disinfection in developing communities"

David Bolzonella "Wastewater treatment and reuse in Mediterranean region"

Posters:
Nisar Kanhar "Biodegration of Herbicide 2, 4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2, 4-D) by soil isolates pseudomonas aeruginosa, and pseudomonas putida strains P3, P4, P7 and P11"

Hasan Khan "Radiation induced removal of some toxic contaminants in tannery effluents of Pakistan"

Khalid Kadir "Ponds for the treatment of wastewater: technically viable, institutionally limited"

Carl Podella "Changing the nature of surfactants: a new paradigm for water processing"

Linda Tseng "Investigation of nitrous oxide emission from wastewater treatment plants in Orange County"

4.4 Emerging contaminants and treatment processes

Podium:
Murat Torun "The degradation of 2, 4-dichlorophenoxypropionic acid pesticide in aqueous solutions by gamma-radiation and the investigation by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry"

Rein Munter "Estonian groundwater quality and technology for its improvement"

Bumsoo Han "Economics of industrial-scale electron beam wastewater treatment plant"

F.G. Echavarria "Sustainable water reuse combining natural water treatment with subsurface drip irrigation: pilot GIS design"

Ganesh Rajagopalan "Removal of biogenic and manufactured nanoscale materials in wastewater"

Bing Ji "The application of constructed wetland for non-point wastewater treatment in Shanghai, China"

Posters:
Hrvoje Juretić "Pilot study on ozonation as a possible treatment for ballast water"

Bumsoo Han "Mobile electron accelerator for environmental research"

Salaheddin Takriti "Radiation degradation mechanism of some pesticides in sewage wastewater"

Bensalah Nasr "Treatment of synthetic and real industrial wastewaters by electrochemical advanced oxidation processes"

Edsel Abud "AO/RP radical chemistry of mixed aliphatic/aromatic nitrosamines in water"

Katy Swancutt "Free radical based destruction of nitrosamines in waters"

Michelle Dail "Removing common antibiotics from contaminated waters using radical reactions"

Stephen Mezyk "Quantifying pCBA radical chemistry: kinetics of hydroxylated product formation and decay"

Devin Doud "Absolute rate constant measurements for the Hydoxyl Radical (OH) with effluent organic matter"

Thomas Neubauer "Absolute kinetics and efficiencies of Hydroxyl Radical and hydrated electron reactions with sulfa drugs in water"

Shakiba Ayatollahi "Treatment of phenolic compounds in olive mill wastewater and lowering the phyto-toxicity of effluent"

Hanoz Santoke "Free-radical-induced oxidative and reductive degradation of fluoroquinoline pharmaceuticals: kinetic studies and degradation mechanisms"

K. Vinodgopal "Chemical markers to determine high bacteria counts in southern Lake Michigan"

M. Al-Sharifi "Study of wastewater and sewage sludge reuse project of Sana’a wastewater treatment plant"

Weihua Song "Free-radical-induced oxidative and reductive degradation of pharmaceutically active compounds"

Julie Peller "Oxidative remediation of Bisphenol A in treated wastewaters"

Miguel Pelaez "Visible light-sensitized TiO2 for the photocatalytic degradation of emerging contaminants"

Behnaz Razavi "Free-radical-induced oxidative and reductive degradation of fibrate pharmaceuticals: kinetic studies and degradation mechanism"

4.5 Desalination

Podium:
Andre Maisseu "Nuclear desalination"

Boris Liberman & Shai Dreizin "Seawater reverse osmosis desalination-a viable solution to water scarcity in Israel"

Lee Fong "An overview of water reuse and desalination practices and trends in Singapore"

Eric Hoek "Nanotechnology and membranes: the future of water treatment?"

Gary Crisp "Perth seawater desalination plant"

Carl Spangenberg "Case study for development of two local groundwater resources"

Posters:
Peter MacLaggan "Carlsbad seawater desalination project-tapping the ocean for drought-proof water supply"

John MacHarg "Reducing the energy consumption of seawater reverse osmosis past, present and future"

Matthew Zwartjes "Characterization of organic compounds in water treated by the OCWD’s advanced water purification facility"

Sally Shafy "Water scarcity and membrane bioreactor for wastewater recycling in Egypt"

Skip Griffin "Providing an emergency or permanent water supply on a global basis using Seawater Desalination Vessels (SDV)"

4.6 G-WADI

Podium:
M. Edmunds "Facing up to water scarcity and groundwater renewability in semi-arid lands"

Anupama Sharma "Adaptation and mitigation of water scarcity in a representative semi-arid basin in India"

N. Sadeghi "Qanats"

Howard Wheater "Spatial-temporal rainfall modeling for water management: use of Generalized Linear Models for daily rainfall simulation"

R. Al Weshah "UNESCO-IHP Role in sustainable water resources management in the Arab world"

Bisher Imam "G-WADI Real Time Precipitation GeoServer: Towards global flood forecasting capacity building"

Ramakar Jha "Identification and remediation of water scarcity issues and global change impacts on water resources"

Posters:
Amanberk Checheibaev "G-WADI About management of water resources on Naryn River"

G. Khasankhanova "Adaptation environmental flow management to remediate water scarcity issues in the Amudarya River delta"

I. Normatov "Climate change and using water resources management in arid and semi-arid zones in Central Asia"

Thematic Session 5: Communication, Education and Capacity Development

Breakout workshops

5.1 Integration of science, policy and practice

Podium:
David Sauri "Questioning the “sanitary city”: five years of alternative water management in Barcelona"

Marcel Tchaou "Sustainable integrated management and development of arid and semi-arid regions of southern Africa (SIMDAS)"

Timothy Bartrand & Franco Montalto "Preliminary results of an agent-based simulation featuring the coupled hydrologic and human interactions typical of a rural Ethiopian village"

Jody Emel "Slow Water: Rethinking water law and management"

Posters:
Olebeng Raperekisi "The impacts of land use changes on water quality in man-made reservoirs"

Rob Krueger "Greening Urban Infrastructure? The political economy of social change in the ‘Sanitary City’"

5.2 Communication between governmental institutions, non-governmental organizations and individuals

Podium:
K. C. Laxman "Integrated water resources management is key for governance and sustainability of project"

Ameur Jeridi "Crossroads of water governance and global citizenship in action via Torino Youth Forum’s success story"

C. Franky "Model sensitivity and group perceptions of a decision support tool for water resource management in southwestern New Mexico"

Gary Woodard "Supporting domestic well owners through internet services and shared information"

Dalal Alnaggar "The role of the regional center for training and water studies in capacity development for Afro-Asian countries"

Joao Pato "Social innovation and collective learning in water planning and management: creation of ICT based social networks and knowledge communities"

Robert Pietrowski & Kofi Bota "Putting the UNESCO centers to work: implementing the IHP-VII program in developing nations"

Posters:
Alexandra Mateescu "Global citizenship and water governance policies: for an active youth platform"

David Asamoahe "Women and water for development: a practical journey to food security and poverty reduction in Africa"

M. Fenni "Innovative techniques to limit the effect of water shortage on crop production in the Setif High Plains"

5.3 Examples of NGOs' realizations

Podium:
Nicholas Fontaine "Technical, cultural and personal challenges in clean water projects"

Marco Aieta "Engineers Without Borders"

Diego Rosso "The story of Contreras, Mexico: an EWB water project with technical, economic, social and cultural challenges"

Helene Baribeau "Water for people in Rwanda: examining a private sector approach"

Celia Del Olmo "When technology makes possible human development: example of water and sanitation programme in Kigoma Region, Tanzania"

Eric Scherch "The triple bottom line of clean water supply"

Poster:
Jacquelin Reed "Honduras H2O"

5.4 The Irvine Action Framework, an instrument of communication

Side Event: NSF Workshop on olive oil wastewater treatment for agricultural reuse

Salaheddin Takriti " Radiation processing of the olive-press wastewaters for detoxifying the water for agricultural use"

Rawia El-Motaium " Effect of ionizing radiation on the degradation of phenolic compounds of olive oil mill waters"

Nuri Azbar "An overview of environmental problems in olive oil production in Turkey"