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Water policy conference set for Oct. 16
3:52 p.m., Sept. 22, 2006--The Delaware Water Policy Forum, “The Delaware: Challenges and Opportunities Affecting a Working and Environmental River,” will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday, Oct. 16, at Clayton Hall. Registration and refreshments will be available beginning at 7:30 a.m. “This forum, the sixth in an annual series that examines statewide water policy issues, is designed to explore the Delaware River and the competing environmental, industrial and economic issues in the basin,” Gerald Kauffman, director of the Water Resources Agency in UD's Institute for Public Administration, said. The conference will include a lecture from keynote speaker Robert Molzahn, president of the Water Resources Association of the Delaware River Basin, as well as panels and presentations on water law and issues facing a working river. The forum is $25 for the public and free for students and senior citizens 65 and older who request complimentary attendance. For more information and to obtain a registration form, visit [www.ipa.udel.edu/wra/waterforumbrochure2006.pdf]. The event is sponsored by UD, the Institute for Public Administration-Water Resources Agency, Water Resources Association of the Delaware River Basin, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Delaware River Basin Commission, Delaware Section of the American Resources Association and Delaware Water Resources Center. “The Delaware Basin covers 13,000 square miles in Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania and extends 300 miles from the headwaters in the Catskills to the mouth at Cape May and Cape Henlopen,” Kauffman said. “Since September 2005, the water resources institutes at Cornell, Delaware, Rutgers and Penn State have been collaborating to collect water resource data and land use and socio-economic information on a watershed basis to prepare a State of the Basin Report Card. The purpose of the State of the Basin Report is to describe for the general public and policymakers the condition of water and natural resources throughout the Delaware River Basin.” For more information, visit [http://www.wr.udel.edu/]. |
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