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First-of-its-Kind

This free, two-day event is for water leaders from Mexico and the United States to gather and discuss shared water challenges and cooperative solutions to municipal water supplies along the border from California to the Gulf of Mexico. Learn from negotiators about Minute 323, the landmark international agreement that establishes how the U.S. and Mexico will share water in the Colorado River.

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Presentations from US-Mexico Border Water Summit

March 1, 2018

Our Dynamic and Changing Border

• Keynote: Imaging the US-Mexico Border in 2030

• Theresa Maldonado, Ph.D., P.E., The University of Texas at El Paso

• Effects of Climate Change on US-Mexico Border Water Supply

• Gregg Garfin, Ph.D., University of Arizona

• Presented by David Gutzler

• Drought and the Rio Grande

• David Gutzler, Ph.D., University of New Mexico

• Transboundary Aquifer Management at the Paso del Norte [No PowerPoint]

• Alfredo Granados-Olivas, Ph.D., Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez

• The Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program: Past, Present, and Future

• Jacob Petersen-Perlman, Ph.D., University of Arizona

• USDA Study on Water Supply Challenges along the Border

• Bill Hargrove, Ph.D., The University of Texas at El Paso

Colorado River Agreement - Minute 323

• Moderator: Sally Spener, IBWC Foreign Affairs Secretary [No PowerPoint]

• U.S. Perspective [No PowerPoint]

• Ed Drusina, IBWC-United States Commissioner

• Mexico Perspective [No PowerPoint]

• Roberto Fernando Salmón Castelo, Commissioner, IBWC-Mexico

• NGO Involvement in the Process

• Jennifer Pitt, Audubon Society

• Importance of Minute 323 [No PowerPoint]

• Carlos de la Parra, Ph.D., El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, B.C.

Desalination and Groundwater Management on the Border

• Moderator: Water Infrastructure: Innovative Environmental and Energy Technologies

• Michael Hightower, University of New Mexico

• Assessing the Potential for Desalination of Brackish Water for Municipal and Industrial Supply

• Pei Xu, Ph.D., New Mexico State University

• Brownsville Seawater Desalination Pilot Plant Study

• Judy Adams, Brownsville Public Utilities Board

• Groundwater Modeling of the Hueco Bolson

• Bill Hutchison, Ph.D., Independent Consultant

• Rosarito Desalination Plant, Playas de Rosarito, B.C.

• Arq. Germán Jesús Lizola Márquez, Director, Water Commission of Baja California

March 2, 2018

Water Reuse and Management Strategies

• Keynote: The Future of Potable Reuse to Meet Water Needs

• Ellen McDonald, Ph.D., P.E., Alan Plummer & Associates

• Advanced Water Purification at El Paso Water

• Gilbert Trejo, P.E., El Paso Water

• Water Reuse in Texas [Unavailable] 

• Eva Steinle-Darling, Ph.D., P.E., Carollo and Texas WateReuse

• Mexico Water Reuse Projects

• Manuel Herrera Mercado, Technical Director, Ciudad Juarez

• Municipal Utility Water Reuse in Arizona

• Jeff Biggs, Tucson Water

Water Resource Management in Changing Times

• Moderator: Scott Reinert, P.E., El Paso Water [No PowerPoint]

• Evaluating the Dynamics of the Mesilla Bolson Aquifer through Remote Sensing and Ground Level Measurements [Unavailable]

• Zohrab Samani, Ph.D., P.E., New Mexico State University

• Implications of Precipitation Uncertainties to Water Resources in the Transboundary Santa Cruz Basin

• Elia Tapia, University of Arizona

• Hydrogeologic Framework of the Transboundary Mesilla Basin

• John Hawley, N.M. Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources

Innovative Water Research and Technologies

• Moderator: Edmund Archuleta, Director of Water Initiatives, The University of Texas at El Paso [No PowerPoint]

• Development of membranes for the desalination process of Membrane Distillation [Unavailable]

• Lucy Mar Camacho, Ph.D., Texas A&M University, Kingsville

• Zero Discharge Desalination - Inland Desalination Research

• Malynda Cappelle, The University of Texas at El Paso

• Innovations in Reuse of Brine Concentrate Management

• Paul Wallace, Enviro Water Minerals

• Cross-Border Technology Demonstration & Showcase Opportunities

• Richard Seline, Accelerate H2O

• USBR’s Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility

• Randy Shaw, P.E., U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

• Presented by Pei Xu