49th Annual Water Conference Proceedings

CONTENTS:

Title Page
Table of Contents
Director's Statement
Water Conference Advisory Committee
Conference Program
Opening Remarks - Senator Pete Domenici
New Mexico's Brackish Water Program as It Relates to the State Water Plan - John R. D'Antonio, Jr.
National Perspective on Saline Aquifers - Kevin Dennehy, USGS Office of Ground Water
What Is and What Isn’t a "Brackish Ground-Water Resource?" - John Shomaker, John Shomaker and Associates
Hydrology of Saline Ground Water in New Mexico - Rick Huff, USGS
Tularosa Basin National Desalination Research Facility Design and Construction Update - Mike Hightower, Sandia National Laboratories and Tom Jennings, Bureau of Reclamation
Albuquerque Water Reuse Initiatives - John Stomp, City of Albuquerque
Produced Water Treatment Program: A Cooperative Effort - Rick Arnold, NMSU Agricultural Science Center/Farmington
Panel: Water Rights Issues of Produced Water
   moderated by Bill Hume, Office of the Governor
   Mark Fesmire, New Mexico Oil Conservation Division
   Matt Lavery, PNM
   Paul Saavedra, Office of the State Engineer
   Frank Yates, Jr., Yates Petroleum Corp.
Concentrate Management Regulations - Karen Menetrey, NM Environment Department
The Science of Concentrate Management - Anthony J. Tarquin, UTEP
Graywater Use in New Mexico - Gary Beatty, NM Environment Department
El Paso's Well-head Desalting Program - John E. Balliew, El Paso Water Utilities
White Cliffs Mutual Domestic Water Users Association Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment - Eddie Livingston, Livingston Associates, P.C.
El Paso's Desalination Efforts - Bill Hutchison, El Paso Water Utilities
California Desalination Projects - Jerry Johns & Fawazi Karajeh, California Department of Water Resources
Research Ways to Stretch Western Water Supplies: The Yuma Desalting Plant - Mike Norris and Angela Adams, Bureau of Reclamation
National Desalination Efforts - Frank Leitz, Bureau of Reclamation
Roadmap for National and International Desalination Research - Tom Hinkebein, Sandia National Laboratories

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