Conference focuses on water challenges

fifth annual Water, Law, Policy and Science Conference
Protecting the region's water quality is the focus of UNL's fifth annual Water, Law, Policy and Science Conference. "Water Challenges in the Great Plains" is the theme of the April 22-23 event at Lincoln's Embassy Suites.

Local and national experts will address integrated approaches to water quality improvement, water quality economics, agriculture and biofuels issues, the ecology and culture of water quality, challenges to water quality from contaminants and agricultural pesticides and groundwater quality. The conference also will feature sessions on the basics of water law and management geared toward attorneys and professionals new to water law.

Conference speakers include G. Tracy Mehan III, former assistant administrator for water for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Bruce Babbitt, former U.S. secretary of the interior under President Bill Clinton; former Wall Street Journal environment editor Frank Allen; and Vicki Colvin of Rice University, discussing nanotechnology in the environment. Several UNL faculty experts on water issues will be speakers and panelists.

This year's conference continues the tradition of attracting national water experts to address state and regional water challenges, said Kyle Hoagland, UNL Water Center director and a co-leader of UNL's Water Resources Research Initiative.

Conference information, program and registration are available at the conference Web site or by contacting Jacki Loomis, School of Natural Resources, jloomis3@unl.edu, 472-7550.

The conference is sponsored by the Office of Research, Water Resources Research Initiative, Water Center, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, School of Natural Resources and College of Journalism and Mass Communications.


    




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