2007 Ground Water Summit

Tuesday, May 1, 2007: 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
San Miguel (Albuquerque Convention Center)
Impacts and Sustainability of Inland Ground Water Desalination and Water Reuse
Moderators:Warren W. Wood, Michigan State Univ
Glenn F. Huff, Ph.D., U.S. Geological Survey
1:30 p.m.Effects of Safe-Yield Criteria on the Development of Brackish Ground-Water for Use in Desalination from a Selected Area of the Tularosa Basin, New Mexico
Glenn F. Huff, Ph.D. and Keith J. Halford, Ph.D., U.S. Geological Survey
1:50 p.m.Desalination of Brackish Ground Water in El Paso, Texas
William R. Hutchison, Ph.D., P.E., P.G, El Paso Water Utilities
2:10 p.m.An Attractive Option for Desalination Concentrate Disposal: Self-Sealing Evaporation Ponds in Texas
Jean-Philippe Nicot, Texas Bureau of Economic Geology and Beth A. Gross, Geosyntec Consultants
2:30 p.m.Geochemical Controls over Sustainable Subsurface RO Waste Injection
June Fabryka-Martin1, Elizabeth Keating1 and Patrick V. Brady2, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, (2)Sandia National Laboratories
2:50 p.m.Relation between Aquifer Mineralogy and the Tendency toward Scale Deposit Formation during Desalination – Examples from Saline Waters in New Mexico
Glenn F. Huff, Ph.D., U.S. Geological Survey
3:10 p.m.National Inland Ground Water Desalination Research Center
Mike Hightower, Mr., Sandia National Laboratories and Karl Wood, New Mexico State University

The 2007 Ground Water Summit