California Integrated Groundwater Management: What Is Working and Not- Road Map for Best Practices

Parker, Timothy K.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013: 2:15 p.m.

Regency East 2 (Hyatt Regency San Antonio)

Timothy K. Parker, PG, CEG, CHG, Parker Groundwater

California has recently compiled a siginificant amount of information on statewide groundwater management implementation, including plans, programs, program elements, what is working, challenges, and barriers. This information is being used to compile a statewide picture of groundwater managment in the California Water Plan Update 2013 - the first time such an amount of information on groundwater practices has been compiled to date in the state. This presentation wil provide an overview of the extent of groundwater managment in the state, drivers, management components that are working, chalenges and barriers, leading to a conclusion of what types of best practices are generally useful in groundwater basins in California.

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Timothy K. Parker, PG, CEG, CHG , Parker Groundwater

Timothy K. Parker currently runs his own consulting company, Parker Groundwater. His groundwater experience spans more than 25 years and includes water policy analysis, groundwater resources development, management, monitoring, geologic carbon sequestration, and contaminant hydrogeology. He serves GRA as Director, CGC as Director, and AGWT as Chair. He sits on the Public Advisory Committee, California Water Plan 2013, and is a member of the Oversight Work Group for Pilot Projects for the Nationwide Ground Water Monitoring Network, and is a Director on the NGWA-SED. Books he co-authored include California Groundwater Management and Potential Groundwater Quality Impacts Resulting from Geologic Carbon Sequestration.

2013 NGWA Summit — The National and International Conference on Groundwater

California Integrated Groundwater Management: What Is Working and Not- Road Map for Best Practices