Tuesday, October 14, 2008: 12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
United States Case Studies: Session 2
12:30 p.m.Evaluating Ground Water Sustainability in the Great Basin Carbonate Aquifer System
Victor Michael Heilweil, Lynette E. Brooks, Donald S. Sweetkind, Melissa D. Masbruch, Jay R. Cederberg, Sue G. Buto, David D. Susong, Alan L. Flint and Philip M. Gardner, USGS
1:00 p.m.A Southern California Case Study in Preventing a Historically Stable Ground Water Resource from Becoming Nonrenewable Under Growth Pressures
John J. Porcello, RG, LHG, GSI Water Solutions Inc., Robert J. DiPrimio, President, Valencia Water Co. and Joseph C. Scalmanini, PE, Luhdorff & Scalmanini
1:30 p.m.Impacts of Non-Sustainable Ground Water Use on Walker Lake
John C. Tracy, Ph.D., University of Idaho
2:00 p.m.Break

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