10th Annual Southeast Watershed Roundtable - August 1-3, 2007

GeoResources Institute
July 23, 2007

What: 10th Annual Roundtable - Sustaining Our Water Infrastructure Through Watershed-Based Approaches
When: August 1 - 3, 2007
Where: Chateau Elan Winery & Resort, Braselton, Georgia

The Southeast Watershed Forum, in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Georgia Environmental Protection Division and the 8-state Roundtable Planning Team is searching for innovative programs to highlight at a major regional conference titled - Sustaining Our Water Infrastructure through Watershed-based Approaches.

National reports have highlighted concern over the nation’s aging water infrastructure, declining water quality and competing needs for water supplies. With aging facilities, increasing growth and development and declining federal funding, there will be great challenges in meeting the future needs for quality groundwater and surface water, drinking water supplies, water and wastewater treatment and the security of our water systems. Sustaining this “water infrastructure” will require changing the way states, communities and local community organizations view and manage their water resources.

Is water reuse or better management more realistic than supplying new sources of water? Should your community consider pollutant trading, land protection, watershed-based permitting, asset management, inflow and infiltration control or other measures to meet water and wastewater needs? To better address these issues, the U.S. EPA is promoting Four Pillars of Sustainable Water Infrastructure: 1) Better Management; 2) Full-Cost Pricing; 3) Efficient Water Use, and 4) Watershed Protection.

The Planning Committee for Sustaining Our Water Infrastructure through Watershed-based Approaches seeks to find the best case studies where communities, industries and local organizations have partnered to use many of these “four pillars,” as well as other innovative strategies to protect their land and water resources to meet future needs.

For more information visit www.nalms.org/Conferences/PDF/2007_aswr_call_for_papers.pdf