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October 21, 2004
First National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration (NCER) -- This
First National Conference
on Ecosystem Restoration (NCER) will be held December
6-10, 2004 in Orlando, Florida. Mark your calendar and make plans to attend this
first-time national event focusing on ecosystem restoration efforts throughout
the country. Join your
fellow scientists, educators, and restoration planners, managers and decision-makers
to discuss similarities and differences and successes and failures of ecosystem
restoration programs throughout the country.
Revised October 13, 2004
World Water Monitoring Day -- The National
Water Quality Monitoring Council is pleased
to support the World Water Monitoring Day 2004. The Council appreciates the leadership
of America's Clean Water Foundation and the many interorganizational efforts
to organize and host the second World Water Monitoring Day from September 18
to October 18, 2004. This effort is an ambitious followup to 2002's National
Water Monitoring Day and 2003's inaugural World Water Monitoring Day. The success
of these events and the growing momentum for this year's event are a striking
illustration of the motto of the NWQMC "Working Together for Clean Water."
October 5, 2004
Latest Version of the BASINS Water Quality Model is Now Available -- A
new version (3.1) of the Better Assessment Science Integrating
point and
Nonpoint Sources (BASINS) software system has been released. BASINS
supports the objectives of facilitating examination of environmental
information, supporting analysis of environmental systems, and providing a
framework for examining management alternatives.For more information and
to download the model please visit: http://epa.gov/waterscience/basins
October 5, 2004
Joint Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference and Federal Interagency
Sedimentation
Conference -- The conference is scheduled
for
April, 2006 in Reno, NV. This will be the first time these two highly successful
conferences, each under the oversight of a subgroup of the Advisory Committee
on Water Information, have been held concurrently. We feel this joint format
will
provide an outstanding technical program. For further information on the conference,
please see the Call for Papers.
For further information on the ACWI subgropus,
please contact:
September 3, 2004
New Report on Sustainable Water -- How
Do We Know It's Sustainable?, by Ethan T. Smith and Harry X. Zhang, Water
Environment and Technology, June 2004.
July 9,2004
General Accounting Office Report released -- The
General Accounting Office (GAO) Report "Watershed
Management: Better Coordination of Data Collection efforts Needed to Support
Key Decisions (GA)-04-382) was released on June 28, 2004, by the House
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. For additional information on
the report, please contact Steve Elstein (202-512-6515)
or John Stephenson (202-512-3841).
Updated August 2, ,2004
American Water Works Association Eventful Days
Ahead -- Upcoming AWWA
events of interest:
Updated August 4,
2004
TMDL 2005 -- Conference
Announcement and Call for Abstracts -- TMDL2005 -- The Total
Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) requirements of the Clean Water Act play a
pivotal role in how and if the United States meets its clean water
goals. The Water Environment Federation.s (WEF) TMDL Conferences have
brought together hundreds of environmental experts to exchange
information on challenging issues related to the TMDL process over the
last three years.
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