BOARD01179

• Board Meeting Date: 7/25/2006
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Conservation Service, and Farm Service Agency. The focus was on common interests, relevant
recommendations of the recent WGAfWSWC report (WSW #1674), and federal budget priorities.

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The Council considered two new and four sun-setting positions related to drought, protecting
water quality and permitting water transfers under EPA's National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES), Federal non-Tribal fees in general adjudications, and
Reclamation's Water Conservation Field Services Program and "Bridging-the-Headgate"
Partnership.

The fall meeting will be held October 4-5 in Sheridan, Wyoming. Agendas will be available
soon.

WSWC Water Rights Adjudication Conference Scheduled: Washington State is hosting the
annual Water Rights Adjudication Conference October 9-11 in Seattle. Contact Barb Anderson,
Conference Coordinator, at mailto:btov461~ecv.wa.gov or [phone].

Water Information Management Systems (WlMS) Workshop: The WSWC's 2006 Water
Information Management Systems (WIMS) Workshop will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico
on September 12-14. As part ofthe meeting, a one-day session will focus on water availability
and related models. For more information, contact Tony WiIlardson, twillardslalwswc.state.ut.us.

Geological Society of America Conference: The Geological Society of America is holding a
conference entitled "Managing Drought and Water Scarcity in Vulnerable Environments" on
September 18-20, 2006 in Longrnont. The conference will be held at the Radisson Hotel &
Conference Center. Reservations may be booked online at www.radisson.comllongmontco and
use the code "GEOSOC" to gei the special rate. The Reservation deadline is August 21

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Western Water Law Conference Scheduled: The Western Water Law Conference will be held
in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 25-26. For more information you can visit their Event
Website at httn://www.c1e.comldev/nroduet info.nhp?prodncts id=724

Groundwater Council Hears Mixed Report on Supply: On June 22, Brian Conway of the
Arizona Department of Water Resources gave the Groundwater Users Advisory Council in
Arizona a short presentation about the department's Aquifer Monitoring Program. Between 1999
and 2005, a six-year study was completed with 101 points monitored to examine both the depth
of water and the gravity - both the water level and the mass of water were measured. The next
measures will be taken in the fall of 2007.

Further infonnation on the Groundwater Councils Activities can be found at
htto:/Iwww.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16830852&BRD=18l7 &P AG=461 &deot id=6856
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China Rolls Out the Big Gnns: In an international view, over 27,000 peasants have been
enlisted by the Chinese government to help produce rain in parched areas by using cloud-seeding
principles originally pioneered by the U.S. Assigned to break up damaging hailstorms, put out
forest fires, and water the crops, they are using anti-aircraft batteries to hunt pregnant rain clouds
and pound them with rockets containing silver iodide. The program started in 1958, and has been
increasing each years, until rainmaking veterans at China's Meteorological Sciences Academy
now boast that China has the largest rainmaking operation in the world.

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