Monday, October 13, 2008: 9:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
International Case Studies
9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks
9:10 a.m. An Interdisciplinary Assessment of Ground Water Mining in Crevillente, Spain
Pedro Martínez-Santos1, Jose Miguel Andreu2, Concha Bru2, M. Ramón Llamas3, Antonio Pulido-Bosch4 and Lucia De Stefano1, (1)Universidad Complutense de Madrid, (2)Universidad de Alicante, (3)Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain, (4)Universidad de Almeria
9:40 a.m. Water Rights and Ground Water Mining: A Paradigmatic Case in La Mancha (Spain)
Lucia De Stefano and Pedro Martínez-Santos, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
10:10 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. Nonrenewable Ground Water Resources in Alberta: Challenges in Identification, Classification, and Regulation
Kevin Parks, Ph.D., Alberta Geological Survey and David McKenna, Alberta Environment
11:00 a.m. Policies Drain the North China Plain: Agricultural Policy and Ground Water Depletion in Luancheng County, 1949-2000
Eloise Kendy, Ph.D., The Nature Conservancy
11:30 a.m. Managing the Nonrenewable North African Aquifer for Sustainable Socioeconomic Development
Saad A. Alghariani, Professor, Ph.D., Alfateh University and the Academy of Graduate Studies
12:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own)

The NGWA International Conference on Nonrenewable Ground Water Resources — Sociotechnological Aspects of Nonrenewable Ground Water Resources: Half-Empty, Half-Full, Top-Down, Bottom-Up, and Some Paths Forward