AZ Hydrology Society Hosts Symposium

The Arizona Hydrological Society announces its First Biennial Symposium on “Scientific Issues Related to Management of Landfills In Arid and Semi-Arid Regions” to be held June 7 in Tucson. The symposium includes two plenary presentations, eleven technical presentations and a concurrent poster session. For more information, check the web site www.AzHydroSoc.org

NSF Funds Available to Study Water Cycle

The National Science Foundation will support innovative basic research into the science of the water cycle. The selected priority science issues for this initial announcement are for understanding and quantifying: pathways and fluxes of water among hydrologic reservoirs; causes of water cycle variability; prediction of water cycle variations; and linkages between the water cycle and geochemical constituents. $5 million is expected to be available for this program for FY2003, with ten to twenty awards anticipated. Deadline is June 18. For more information contact: Douglas James, Hydrologic Sciences, Earth Sciences, Rm. 785, NSF, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230. Telephone: 703-292-8549; email:ldjames@nsf.gov Web: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf02101/nsf02101.htm

Conference on Sustainable Water Future

The conference, Allocating and Managing Water for a Sustainable Future: Lessons From Around the World will be held June 11-14, in Boulder, Colorado. Its purpose is to examine innovative water allocation laws, policies and institutions from around the world that provide lessons for sustainable water management. Sessions will focus on innovative legal and institutional developments and lessons that can be transferred across different regions, countries, cultures, economies and water systems. International speakers and case studies will be drawn from world regions that share the American West’s challenges of managing uncertain and variable water supplies. For more information, contact the Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado Law School, Boulder, CO 80309-0401; phone: 303-492-1286: email: nric@ spot.colorado.edu; web site: www.colorado.edu/Law/NRLC/

EPA Invites Arsenic Treatment Demonstration Interest

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to conduct a demonstration program on the treatment of arsenic in drinking water, with the intent of identifying and evaluating the cost effectiveness of commercially available technologies and engineering or other approaches to meet new arsenic standards in small water systems (10,000 customers). The EPA is inviting the public at large, governmental and regulatory agencies, and drinking water utilities to identify small water utilities that may be interested in hosting a demonstration at their facility. More information about the study can be found at www.epa.gov/ORD/NRMRL/arsenic or contact: Robert Thurnau, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45268; 513-569-7504. Requested information must be submitted by June 28.

Groundwater Forum Scheduled

The Ground Water Protection Council and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in cooperation with state and federal agencies, tribal and local governments, citizen groups and industry will cosponsor the 2002 GWPC Annual Forum, Water Resources for the Future: “Ground Water Protection and Conservation,” September 22-25 in San Francisco. This year’s conference will focus on the importance of conservation and protection of ground water as they relate to overall water resource management; the integration of the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Clean Water Act programs; as well as a focus on what is being done to meet ground water/source water protection goals. For more information, check: http://www.gwpc.org.

AWRA Summer Specialty Conference

The American Water Resources Association is hosting the conference “Ground Water/Surface Water Interactions” at Keystone, Colorado, July 1-3. The conferences will be an opportunity to discuss a wide range of interdisciplinary concerns and technical advancements in the arena of interactions between surface water and groundwater and will bring together a broad range of disciplines to focus on the issue. Surface water and ground water resources are all too often considered separately and distinctly from one another, and the interface and interaction between the two is frequently ignored. For information about the conference check the web site: www.awra.com

Pilot Tribal Wastewater Training, Technical Assistance Center Established

The Office of Wastewater Management’s Municipal Assistance Branch and Northern Arizona University have established a pilot Tribal Wastewater Training and Technical Assistance Center. The primary objective of the center is to provide information and no-cost, direct on-site training and technical assistance to Indian tribes on their wastewater treatment facilities. It will function as a resource center or clearinghouse for tribes to access information via publications, databases and newsletters and as a contact point for other organizations able to provide other tribal services and assistance. The center is a joint project of EPA and Northern Arizona University and will be located at NAU. For further information on the project, contact Virgil Masayesva at NAU 928-523-9651 or Curt Baranowski of EPA at 202-260-5806.

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