Monday, October 13, 2008: 1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
United States Case Studies: Session 1
1:30 p.m. Using Stored Ground Water Without Depleting a Fully Appropriated Stream
John W. Shomaker, Ph.D., John Shomaker & Associates Inc.
2:00 p.m. Slowly Conserving the Kansas High Plains Aquifer
Susan G. Stover, M.S., Kansas Water Office
2:30 p.m. Ground Water Availability Assessment of the Columbia Plateau Regional Aquifer System
David Morgan, Matt Ely, Daniel Snyder, Sue Kahle, Richard Dinicola, Erick Burns, Gabriel Senay, Theresa Olsen and Tana Haluska, U.S. Geological Survey
3:00 p.m. Break
3:10 p.m. The Dockum Aquifer in Texas: Municipal Replacement for the Ogallala?
Ken Rainwater, Ph.D., PE, BCEE, Texas Tech University and Judy Reeves, Ph.D., PG, Cirrus Associates, LLC
3:40 p.m. Aquifer Geometries within the Denver Basin of Colorado: An Insider's View of the Draining Container
Robert G. Raynolds, Denver Museum of Nature & Science
4:10 p.m. Ground Water Management as An Agent of Social Change
Stephen E. Ragone, Ph.D., Consultant for the National Ground Water Association

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