News:

Events:

Water and the Future of Kansas Conference
March 26, 2009
Topeka, Kansas

Powerpoint Presentations:

 Energy and Water - Issues and Challenges

The Water Footprint of Energy from Biomass

Potential Impact of Climate Change on Kansas

Challenges and Opportunities for Water Quantity and Quality 

Presentations from the Sunflower Room:

• 2008 Farm Bill Programs
• Update on TMDLs and Their Implementation in Kansas

Presentations from the Pioneer Room:

• Potential Impacts of Crop Residue Removal as Cellulosic Ethanol Production on Water Quality
• Impacts of Conservation Practices on Soil and Water
• Assessing Impacts
• Danger of Waste Disposal from Water Well Filtration Units and Sustainable Solution to the Arsenic Affected Nations
• Estimation of Sediment Sources in Agricultural and Urban Environments Using Chemical Tracers
• Water Quantity Implications of Ethanol Production in the US
• Impacts of Conservation Practices on the Soil and Water
• Characterization of Suspended-Sediment Transport in the Urbanizing Mill Creek Watershed, Johnson County, Kansas, 2006-2007
• Riparian Area Condition and Sediment Loading in the Delaware River Basin
• Ground-Water Model of the Smoky Hill River Valley below Kanopolis Reservoir

Presentations from the River Room:

• Marion Reservoir Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy
• Assessing Impacts - WRAPS Case Studies
• Potential Effects of Anthropogenic inputs Associated with Shoreline Development on Water Quality in Grand Lake, Oklahoma
• Three Alternative Futures for the Northern Flint Hills:  Scenarios Provided by Hydrologic Modeling
• Impacts of Aging Infrastucture
• Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River Basin Management
• Implementation of Atrazine BMP's in the Little Arkansas River Watershed
• Upper Wakarusa WRAPS Seeding Ideas and Solutions
• Sources of P Loading in Kansas Streams
• Impacts of Aging Infrastructure Dams and Levees

Presentations from the Shawnee A Room:

• Impact of Climate Change
• Quantifying Ground-Water Savings Achieved by Salt-Cedar Control
• A Look at Twenty Years of SDI Research in Kansas
• Assessment of Water Quality Changes in the Ozark Plateaus Aquifer System
• Sensitivity of Center Pivot Sprinkler and SDI Economic Comparisons
• Keys to Successful Adoption of SDI
• Impact of Treated Wastewater for Irrigation on Nitrate Accumulation
• Improving Environmental Stewardship of CAFO Effluent
• A Real-time Permittivity Sensor for Simultaneous Measurement of Multiple Water-Quality Parameters