This meeting is being organized by the UK Groundwater Forum and will take place at the Natural History Museum in London on 30 March 2006. Please note that the deadline for registration is 23 March 2006.
The cost of the meeting is 50 pounds, including buffet lunch and refreshments (20 pounds for full-time students). Programme details follow below. For further information and registration form please visit our website http://www.groundwateruk.org/html/open_meetings.htm or contact the Forum secretariat.
Thank you,
Panchali Guha
UK Groundwater Forum
Maclean Building
Wallingford
Oxfordshire OX10 8BB
Tel: 01491 692226
Fax: 01491 692345
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SEMINAR PROGRAMME
09:30-10:00 Registration and tea/coffee
Morning Session: the pressures
10:00-10:10 Introduction
Denis Peach, Chair of the UK Groundwater Forum
10:10-10:35 The status of groundwater resources and the groundwater needs of the environment
John Aldrick, Environment Agency
10:35-10:55 Benefit valuation of groundwater
Camille Bann, Environment Agency
10:55-11:20 Changing population demands: the implications for water supply planning
Philip Duffy, Sustainable Communities Division, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
11:20-11:45 Groundwater-related supply problems being faced by the water industry
Mike Pocock, Water UK
11:45-12:10 Pressures on groundwater resources
Denis Peach, Groundwater Programme Manager, British Geological Survey
12:10-12:30 Discussion
12:30-13:20 Lunch
Afternoon Session: the solutions?
13:20-13:45 Understanding our groundwater systems - gaps in knowledge needed for planning
Howard Wheater, Imperial College London
13:45-14:10 Options for sustainable water management
Louise Heathwaite, Centre for Sustainable Water Management, University of Lancaster
14:10-14:30 Measures to control diffuse pollution
Speaker to be confirmed
14:30-14:50 Afternoon tea and coffee
14:50-15:50 Water company case studies
Dave Harker, Anglian Water
Meyrick Gough, Southern Water
Phil Bishop, Thames Water
15:50-16:15 Summing up
Andrew Skinner, Consultant
16:15-16:30 Discussion
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