Symposium on Arid Lands

Salt Lake City is a well-suited venue to discuss the growing water resource and hydrologic and hydraulic engineering issues related to semi-arid and arid lands throughout the eastern United States and the world. The rapid pace of development in semi-arid and arid environments presents unique hydrologic, hydraulic, and environmental engineering challenges. In these environments, water resources and flooding issues are becoming critical to both the professional community and public. Attend this Symposium to focus on perennial rivers in arid environments, hydrometeorology, hydrology and hydraulics, and water supply and quality, and learn how best to deal with related issues.

In conjunction with this Symposium, Richard E. Giraud and Dr. Jeffrey R. Keaton will lead a field trip to investigate alluvial fan flooding and debris flow issues in the Salt Lake City area, and Drs. Jim O'Brien and Reinaldo Garcia will teach a short course on the FLO-2D model.

Best Management Practices (BMP) Technology Symposium: Current and Future Directions

Attend the BMP Symposium to learn about the relatively new concept of using BMP technology to remove pollutants from urban storm water runoff. Topics covered in some 59 peer-reviewed papers will include low-impact development (LID), retrofitting existing developed areas, erosion and sediment control, and BMP design. Researchers and stateof-the-art practitioners working in various spheres of BMP technology - locally, nationally, and internationally - will join to provide a comprehensive treatment of current and future directions for this technology.

Environment & Water Resources History Symposium

Choose to attend this sure-to-be-popular Symposium and learn about past, present, and future environmental issues. Focus on such presentations as Utah's regional water evelopment, a comprehensive overview of sedimentation engineering from antiquity to modern times that highlights innovative Mesa Verde reservoirs and sedimentation engineering pioneers, and the Colorado River.

Groundwater Issues Symposium

You should attend this Symposium if ensuring sustainable groundwater quantity and quality is important to you. This Symposium will feature papers on groundwater modeling, onjunctive management of surface and groundwater, groundwater management under uncertainty, long-term groundwater montoring, and probabilistic approaches to groundwater modeling.

International Issues Symposium & Visiting International Fellowship

Participation from around the globe proves that the world gets smaller every day and that water issues know no boundaries. Because there is no substitute for face-to-face discussions, plan to attend this Symposium to share information with colleagues from near and far, and find out more about how others approach the same pressing issues. Technical presentations as well as panel discussions are planned. Several Visiting International Fellows from developing countries will participate and be honored at the Congress - Dr. Dilorom Fayzieva of Uzbekistan, Dr. Jose Ochoa-Iturbe of Venezuela, and Mr. Wijanto Hadipuro of Indonesia. (See Monday's EWRI International Fellowship Reception).

River Restoration and Urban Streams Symposium

This year's Symposium - designed to encourage your dialogue and exposure to new ideas and methodologies that will further the art and science of river restoration - will emphasize issues of concern, with special attention given to the urban environment. Presentations and posters will focus on the most current tools, methods, and applications in the industry. Presenters will include several invited speakers, notably Craig Fischenich, Richard Hey, Gary Parker, Jack Schmidt, and Peter Wilcock.

6th Annual Symposium on Water Distribution Systems Analysis (WDSA)

The WDSA Symposium has attracted submissions from every continent on the globe. This hot-topic Symposium will span four days and feature 42 papers in a dozen sessions, mixing provocative presentations with award-winning poster displays. Session themes include: system vulnerability assessments, optimal design and control, stochastic water demands models, sensor optimization, leak detection, network calibration, water quality models, evolutionary computing, and advances in network flow analysis.

All Symposium presentations will be published on a CD that is available at the Congress and included with Full Registrations. Additional copies may be purchased for $85. Environmental & Water Resources History Symposium papers will be published in book format and available for purchase at the ASCE on-site Bookstore.