Multi-State Salinity Coalition

2007 Summit

• Mark Limbaugh, Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, Opening Keynote Speech
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Day 1: Thursday, January 11, 2007

• Tim Thomure, Lead Hydrologist, City of Tuscon, Central Arizona Project RO Treatment Plant Case Study
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• Bill Hutchison, Ph.D, Water Resources Manager, El Paso Water Utilities Inland Desalination Facility
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• Craig Parker, Inland Empire Utilities Agency, Chino Basin Desalting Authority Program and Update
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• Michael Carlin, Assistant General Manager, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco Bay Regional Desalination Project – Investing in A Regional Partnership for Desalination
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• Tony Jones, Ph.D, Chief Technology Officer, ReEnergy Desalination, Inc., Distributed Production by Seawater Desalination: A contrarian Viewpoint to a Sustainable and Secure Water Supply
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• Eli Oklejas, President, Fluid Equipment Development Company, LLC, Optimization of Factors Pertaining to the High Pressure Section SWRO Plants that Affect System Reliability
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• Kib Jacoboson, Manager, CRBSP, U.S, Bureau of Reclamation, Reclamation’s Colorado River Basin wide Salinity Control Program
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• Travis James, Salinity Coordinator, U.S. Department of Agriculture/Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA-NRCS On-Farm Salinity Control Program
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• Heidi Hadley, Salinity Coordinator, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, BLM’s Salinity Control Program in the Upper Colorado River Basin
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• David Shaw, Environmental Horticulture Farm Advisor, University of California Cooperative Extension, Salt Tolerant Grasses
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• Paul Kinshella, P.E. City of Phoenix Water Services Department, Treatment Plant Engineering Superintendent, Managing Salinity in Reclaimed Water
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Day 2: Friday, January 12, 2007

• Paul Reiter, Executive Director, International Water Association, Coping with Water Scarcity and Uncertainty: Global Trends
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• Mary Jane Foley, Consultant and Former California State Water Resources Control Board Member, Overview on permitting and regulatory issues
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• Heather Cooley, Research Associate in the Water and Sustainability Program, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security, Environmental Impacts of Seawater Desalination
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• Jennifer Pitt, Senior Research Analyst, Environmental Defense, “New Water” for the Colorado River? Yuma Desalting Plant test run in context
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• Jorge Arroyo, Director of Special Projects, Texas Water Development Board, Progress In the Implementation of the Texas Desalination Program
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• Andrew Kingman, CFO/CEO, Poseidon Resources, Private Approach for Desalination Project Financing
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• Fawzi Karajeh, Chief of Water and Desalination Branch, California Department of Water Resources, Status of California Desalination Grant Program
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• Bob Hultquist, California DHS, Regulatory Implication of Ocean Desalination
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• Chris Rayburn, Director of Research Management for Awwa Research Foundation, Implementation of the Desalination and Water Purification Technology Roadmap
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• Mike Hightower, Distinguished Member Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories  Energy-Water Research and Development Roadmap
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Ernesto Avila, Mark Limbaugh and Ed Archuleta

Summit Attendees Network at the Reception

Michael Gabaldon

Jeff Farnsworth