Water Quality Issues to Headline ACWA’s 2011 Regulatory Summit
Water quality issues and challenges will be explored in depth at ACWA’s inaugural Regulatory Summit in Pasadena on Aug. 17.
Bringing together experts in the field of water quality, the summit promises a series of thought-provoking and informative sessions on such topics as carbon capture and storage, detection limits, water quality compliance, chromium 6 and toxicity testing.
A newly added session on how to proactively manage communications related to water quality will provide insight on working with the media and public.
Keynoting the luncheon is William Ascher of Claremont McKenna College, who will discuss his book Knowledge and Environmental Policy.
Attendees may earn up to four hours of California Department of Public Health certification credit.
Some of the courses offered include:
- “Carbon Capture & Storage and Groundwater Quality: Don’t Poison the Well!” exploring the risks and potential impacts associated with differing geological formations, seismicity, metal leaching, enhanced oil recovery, and unintended leakage.
- “Innovative Rate Designs: Balancing Conservation Objectives with Revenue Stability Demands,” using water agency case studies to see how others are addressing these challenges with innovative rate designs.
- “Toxicity Testing: Its role in Water Quality Regulation and Emerging Compliance Challenges of a New Statewide Policy” exploring a proposed toxicity policy that would include statewide numeric toxicity objectives, standardized monitoring and reporting, and a new method of data analysis.
- “Hexavalent Chromium Mode of Action Research Program: Results Are In…” sharing the results of a cutting-edge research program on the harmful effects of chrom 6.
Click here to register for the event.
