Wednesday, October 18, 2006 Theme: Water Quantity 7:30 am - 8:15 am Registration & Continental Breakfast 8:15 am Welcome Darrell Pepper, UNLV John Lyon, US EPA Senator Pete V. Domenici (R-NM) - special videotape statement Senator John Ensign (R-NV)- special videotape statement 9:00 am - 10:00 am Global water issues as it relates to water quality, John Voeller, OSTP 10:00 am - 10:30 am Break 10:30 am - 11:15 am National/regional water issues & drought - West/Southwest US, Pat Mulroy, Southern Nevada Water Authority 11:15 am - noon Overview of Legislative issues, David Weiman, Agricultural Resources Noon - 1:00 pm Lunch 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Panel on Water Quantity, Chair: Daniel Beard, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. Dave Wegner, Ecosystem Management International, Inc. Martha Davis, Inland Empire Utilities Agency Phil Williams, Phil Williams & Associates, Ltd. 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Break 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Panel on Engineering Advances & Desalination, Chair: John Merson, Sandia National Laboratories Panelists: Dr. Pat Brady, Senior Scientist and Technical Lead for Sandia's Desalination Research, Program, Sandia National Laboratories "Novel Approaches to Concentrate Management" Professor Frank Huang and Professor Snezna Rogelje, New Mexico Tech, Departments of Civil Engineering and Biology (respectively) "Enzymatic Inhibition of Biofilm Formation During Reverse Osmosis" Professor Thomas Davis, University of South Carolina "Zero-Discharge Desalination with Gypsum Recovery" 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Poster presentations and reception at the Atomic Testing Museum Thursday, October 19, 2006 Theme: Water Quality & Human Health 7:30 am - 8:00 am Continental Breakfast 8:00 am - 10:00 am Panel on Water Quality/Contaminants, Chair: Shannon Cunniff, U.S. Dept. of Defense Panelists: Sarah Gerould, USGS "Emerging Contaminants: Emerging Questions" Josh Lanier, Lightstream Pulsed UV "New Approaches to Drinking Water Quality Regulation" Kevin Teichman, EPA “Addressing Uncertainty in Risk Assessments for Contaminants in Drinking Water” Shane Snyder, Southern Nevada Water Authority "Emerging Contaminants in Water" 10:15 am - 12:15 pm Panel on Engineering & Advanced Remediation Technology, Chair: Michelle Frey, PureSense Michelle DeHaan, Damon S. Williams Associates, LLC "Advances in Remediation for Trace Inorganics" Bruce Long, Black & Veatch "Engineering Transitions from Conventional to Packaged Applications" Michelle Frey, PureSense Environmental, Inc. "New Challenges for Integrated Information & Decision Support Systems to Adopt New Practices or Technologies" Alan Roberson, AWWA "Drivers in the Water Sector" 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm Lunch 1:15 pm - 3:15 pm Panel on Human Health and GEO Water Community of Practice, Chair: John Lyon, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Panelists: Dr. Gary Foley, EPA/NCER "Water & Health Community of Practice (CP) Taking a Watershed Approach" Rochelle Araujo, US EPA Mary Gant, NIEHS-NIH "GEOSS & Human Health" Tim Owen, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center "Status on USGEO Planning for a National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS)" 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm Break 3:45 pm - 5:30 pm Panel on Key Breakthroughs in Commercial Industry, Chair: Philip Rolchigo, GE Global Research Panelists: Dean Spatz, Watasso "The Future Role of Advanced Technologies for Water Treatment" Craig Bartels, Director of R&D for Hydronautics "Advances in Low Energy RO Membranes" Antonia von Gottberg, Koch Membrane Systems "RO Module Design: Cost & Performance Benefits of Large Diameter Elements" Clint Kopp, Former Director of R&D, Memtek/US Filter "A Novel Secondary Flow Enhanced Surface Water Filtration Technology" Pierre Cote, Zenon Corp. "Advances in Membrane Bioreactor Design for Wastewater Treatment" Richard Stover, Chief Technology Officer, Energy Recovery, Inc. "Advances in Energy Recovery Technology for Seawater RO Systems" D. Michael Connolly, Founder & CEO of Integrated Nano-Technologies "Novel Nucleic Acid Sensors" 5:30 pm End of day Friday, October 20, 2006 Theme: Water Policy & Economics 7:30 am - 8:00 am Continental Breakfast 8:15 am - 9:00 am Economic Outlook & Perspectives, Keith Schwer, Economic Research Center, University of Nevada Las Vegas 9:00 am - 10:45 am Panel on Legislative Policies & Regulations, Chair: Erik Webb, Office of Senator Pete Domenici Panelists: Betsy Cody, Congressional Research Service "Water and Power Policy Review" Douglas Crawford-Brown, Professor in Environmental Sciences and Engineering and in Public Policy, and Director of the campus-wide Carolina Environmental Program, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Profession of Environmental Engineering and Sciences" Gene Whitney, Office of Science & Technology Policy, Subcommittee on Water Quality & Availability "Office of Science and Technology Policy's Subcommittee on Water Availability and Quality report on water science needs published November 2004 and the upcoming report on water programs to fill those needs” Dick Engberg, American Water Resources Association “Results of the 2nd AWRA National Water Policy Dialog from March 2005” 10:45 am - 11:00 am Break 11:00 am Action Items & Consensus 11:45 am Closing Remarks 12:00 pm End of Conference