CNAS

Keynote Speakers

Michael J. Hayes, Director, national Drought Mitigation Center, Universidty of Nebraska-Lincoln - "Lessons learned?  Recent drought risk management experiences in the U.S."     (Abstract)     (Presentation)

Daniel Connell, Australia National University, Canberra, Australia - "Developing an auditing framework for the governance of rivers within federal systems:  Australia, South Africa, United States, Mexico, and Spain"     (Abstract)    (Presentation)

Agronomy

W. Durand, ARC-Grain Crops Institute - "Drought adaptation measures and risk tolerance of commercial and subsistence maize farmers in the western Free State and Northwest Provinces of South Africa"     (Abstract)    (Presentation)

Marta García-Mollá, Llorenç Avellà, and Carles Sanchis, Centro Valenciano de Estudios Sobre el Riego, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia - "Irrigation associations coping with drought: The case of four irrigation districts in eastern Spain"  (Abstract)    (Presentation)

Robert B. Hutmacher, University of California-Davis Plant Sciences Dept. and West Side Research and Extension Center - "Crop choices with limited water supplies: Deficit irrigation and sensitive growth stages"  (Abstract)    (Presentation)

Luis Rendón Pimentel, ICID Mexican Committee President and Irrigation Districts Manager, National Water Commission - "Drought plans in irrigation districts"  (Abstract)    (Presentation unavailable)

Peter Hayman and Michael McCarthy, SARDI - "Irrigation and drought in a southern Australian climate that is arid, variable, and changing"  (Abstract)    (Presentation)

Ecological impact and response

G. Darrel Jenerette, University of California Riverside, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences - “Ecological responses and interactions with drought in the sourthwestern United States”  (Abstract)    (Presentation)

Irene Pisanty, Cristina Pérez y Sosa, and Gabriel Gálvez, Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México - "Agriculture, water mismanagement and ecosystem transformations in the Cuatrociénegas Valley in the Chihuahuan Desert, Mexico"  (Abstract)    (Presentation)

Ian Overton, CSIRO - "The Murray-Darling Basin: An ecosystem under threat in Australia"  (Abstract)    (Presentation)

Carles Ibáñez and Nuno Caiola, IRTA, Aquatic Ecosystems Program - “Impacts of water scarcity and drought on Iberian aquatic ecosystems”  (Abstract)    (Presentation)

Economic considerations

Jay Lund and Richard Howitt, University of California, Davis - "Modeling economic-engineering responses to drought: The California case"  (Abstract)    (Presentation)

Carlos Muñoz Piña, et. al., National Institute of Ecology (Instituto Nacional de Ecología-INE) - “Institutiional failures and aquifers overexploitation"  (Abstract)         (Presentation)

Rashid Hassan and Gerhard Backeberg, University of Pretoria - "Drought management strategies in South Africa and the potential for economic policy instruments"  (Abstract)    (Presentation)

Jeff Connor, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems - "Managing drought with water markets: The Murray-Darling Basin experience"  (Abstract)    (Presentation)

Hydrology, technology, ecology

J. T. Vahrmeijera, J. G. Annandale, K. C. Bristow, J. M. Steyn, and M. Holland, University of Pretoria, Department of Plant Production and Soil Science, Pretoria, South Africa - "Drought: A catalyst for change – A case study of the Steenkoppies Dolomitic Aquifer under stress"  (Abstract)     (Presentation)

James O. Sickman, University of California Riverside, Department of Soil and Water Sciences - "Defining drought in California: Precipitation variability over annual to millennial time scales"  (Abstract)     (Presentation)

J. Joel Carrillo-Rivera and O. M. Rueda-Gallo, Institute of Geography, UNAM, México - "Where does groundwater stands in drought conditions"  (Abstract)    (Presentation)

Mac Kirby, Francis Chiew, Mohammed Mainuddin, Bill Young, Geoff Podger, and Andy Close, CSIRO Land and Water - "Drought and climate change in the Murray-Darling Basin: A hydrological perspective."  (Abstract)     (Presentation)

Joaquin Andreu, Javier Ferrer-Polo, M. angel Pérez, and Abel Solera, Instituto de Ingeniería del Agua y Medio Ambiente, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia - "Drought planning and management in the Júcar River Basin, Spain"  (Abstract)  (Presentation)

Management/insurance

Miguel García-Vera, Confederación Hidrográfica del Ebro, Ministry of Environment - "Water scarcity management in Spain: Case study Ebro River basin"  (Abstract)   (Presentation)

David Dreverman, Executive Director, River Murray at the Murray-Darling Basin Authority - "Responding to extreme drought in the Murray-Darling basin, Australia"  (Abstract)      (Presentation)

John V. Rossi, General Manager, Western Municipal Water District - "Potential political impacts in Southern California of drought related water availability and rate increases" (Abstract)    (Presentation)

Sergio Soto-Priante, Deputy Director General for Hydraulic Infrastructure for Agriculture National Water Commission - "Hydrological cycles management to reduce the effects of drought in the Bravo River basin" (Abstract)    (Presentation)

Marina Gil, Alberto Garrido, Almudena Gómez-Ramos, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid - "Agricultural productivity and water supply variability in Spain: A model to manage hydrological risks"  (Abstract)    (Presentation)

Policy making

Matt Kendall, General Manager, National Water Commission, Canberra - "Drought and its role in shaping water policy in Australia"  (Abstract)    (Presentation)

Liliana Meza García, Technical Secretary of the Social Cabinet, Office of the President and Alejandro Guevara Sanginés - “Public interventions in Mexico to face drought in the short and long run”  (Abstract)    (Presentation)

Rachalet Cronjé, Director of Water Resources Management Support, Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, Pretoria - "Managing hydrological drought in South Africa"  (Abstract)    (Presentation unavailable)

Eduardo Diez-Patier, Chief of Cabinet for Undersecretary Josep Puxeu Rocamora, Rural Affairs and Water, Government of Spain, Madrid - "Drought policy in Spain. Past, present, and future"  (Abstract)    (Presentation)

Wendy Martin, Executive Project Manager, Statewide Drought Coordinator, California Department of Water Resources - "California’s drought – A glimpse into the future"  (Abstract)    (Presentation)

Technology/water supply

Holger R. Maier, Fiona L. Paton, Graeme C. Dandy, Jeff Connor, The University of Adelaide - “Impact of drought on Adelaide's water supply system: Past, present, and future”  (Abstract)     (Presentation)

E. Playán , S. Lecina, D. Isidora, R. Aragüés, J. M. Faci, R. Salvador, N. Zapata, and J. Cavero, Aula Dei Experimental Station, CSICS; and Irrigation Department, Agrifood Research and Technology Centre of Aragon, CITA - "Living with drought in the irrigated agriculture of the Ebro basin (Spain): Structural and water management actions"  (Abstract)    (Presentation)

James E. Ayars, USDA-ARS, San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center - "Adapting irrigated agriculture to drought in the San Joaquin Valley of California"  (Abstract)    (Presentation)