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GA Water Leadership Summit XIV
Meeting Georgia's Water Demands in the 21st Century

Held Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Albany Technical College - Kirkland Conference Center, Albany, Georgia.

Thank you for joining your neighbors and others interested in Georgia's water resources. The Fourteenth Water Summit for Southwest Georgia was a great success. Speakers discussed the recently adopted State Water Plan, explained critical stream habitat. Several helped us understand the current drought, low stream flow, and groundwater and put a put those into the perspective of El Nino/La Nina cycles and global warming. Ross Harding helped us understand Georgia's role in the emerging biofuels market and its water use.


Here's the complete program:

• Dr. Carol Couch, Director, Georgia Environmental Protection Division, Atlanta
  • "State Water Plan" Download the Powerpoint Presentation 1, 2
• Sandy Tucker, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Athens
  • "Critical Habitat and Other Management Tools" Download the Powerpoint Presentation
• Ross Harding, VP for Business Development, Herty Advanced Materials Development Center, Savannah
  • "Intersection of Water and Biofuel Production - An energing industry" Download the Powerpoint Presentation
• David F. Zierden, Florida State Climatologist, Center for Ocean Atmospheric Prediction Studies, The Florida State University, Tallahassee
  • "Climate of the Southeast: From El Niño to Climate Change" Download the Powerpoint Presentation
• Dr. Joel Paz, Microclimatologist, Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, University of Georgia, Griffin
  • "Effect of Climate Variability on Irrigation Water Use" Download the Powerpoint Presentation
• Mark Masters, Economist, Albany State University and Flint River Water Planning and Policy Center, Albany
  • "Economic Value of Water for Agricultural Production in Southwest Georgia" Download the Powerpoint Presentation
• Woody Hicks, Hydrogeologist, Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center, Newton
  • "Water Resources Conditions in Georgia and an Evaluation of the Hydrologic Severity of the Drought of the 2007-08" Download the Powerpoint Presentation

The University of Georgia College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences and its National Environmentally Sound Production Agriculture Laboratory (NESPAL), a research organization dedicated to development of environmentally and economically sound agricultural production systems, is proud to host this important forum for public discussion of water issues.

The views presented here do not represent those of NESPAL, The College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, The University of Georgia, The State of Georgia or their employees. For more information please revisit these pages for updates, or send electronic mail to Dr. Jim Hook at jimhook@uga.edu.

Water Summit pages developed by Linsey Forlow and James Hook on April 1, 2002. This page last updated June 20, 2008