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| | 8:00 AM | Introductory Remarks |
| 124-1 | 8:05 AM | QUANTIFYING THE GROUNDWATER IMPACT ON THE DISCHARGE AND CHEMISTRY OF THE LOWER JORDAN RIVER ALONG THE BORDER BETWEEN JORDAN AND ISRAEL: SHAVIT, Uri, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Haifa 32000 Israel, aguri@technion.ac.il |
| 124-2 | 8:25 AM | WHERE AND HOW DO WE FIND GROUNDWATER IN ARID LANDS? AN INTEGRATED APPROACH FROM EGYPT AND SAUDI ARABIA: SULTAN, Mohamed1, STURCHIO, Neil C.2, YAN, Eugene3, SEFRY, Saleh4, MILEWSKI, Adam1, BECKER, Richard1, ABDELDAYEM, Ahmad Wagdy5, and NASR, Ibrahim Mohamed6, (1) Geosciences, Western Michigan University, 1903 W. Michigan Avenue, 1187 Rood Hall, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, mohamed.sultan@wmich.edu, (2) Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 West Taylor Street, MC-186, Chicago, IL 60607-7059, (3) Environmental Research, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439, (4) Saudi Geological Survey, Jeddah, 21514, Saudi Arabia, (5) Irrigation and Hydraulics Department, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, (6) Desert Research Center, Cairo, Egypt |
| 124-3 | 8:45 AM | GROUNDWATERS OF THE EASTERN DESERT OF EGYPT: STURCHIO, Neil C.1, SULTAN, Mohamed I.2, PATTERSON, Leslie J.1, BELOSO, Abelardo D.1, and HERATY, Linnea J.1, (1) Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 West Taylor Street, MC-186, Chicago, IL 60607, sturchio@uic.edu, (2) Geosciences, Western Michigan University, 1903 West Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 |
| 124-4 | 9:05 AM | ISOTOPIC RECONNAISSANCE OF WATER QUALITY DEGRADATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST: VENGOSH, Avner, Division of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, vengosh@duke.edu |
| 124-5 | 9:25 AM | WATER QUALITY ISSUES AND SUSTAINABLE APPROACH IN ISRAEL: ELHANANY, Sara Sr, Israel Water Autority, Water Quality Division, 14 Hamasger st, Tel Aviv 67776 Israel, sarael10@water.gov.il |
| 124-6 | 9:45 AM | MIDDLE EAST WATER DATA BANKS AND PUBLIC AWARENESS AND WATER CONSERVATION PROJECTS 1995-2004: GOODE, Daniel J., U.S. Geological Survey, 770 Pennsylvania Drive, Suite 116, Exton, PA 19341, djgoode@usgs.gov, LENOX, Anna M., USGS (Ret.), Centreville, VA 20120, and SHAMPINE, William J., USGS (Ret.), Ocala, FL 34481 |
| 124-7 | 10:05 AM | WATER CRISIS AND OBSTACLES FACING WATER SUPPLY IN THE WEST BANK: MAREI, Amer, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Al Quds University, Abu Dis, East Jerusalem, 001000, Palestine, marei@planet.edu and SALHUT, Sand, Deapartment of Buisness and Economy, Al Quds University, Abu Dis, East Jerusalem, 01000, Palestine |
| 124-8 | 10:25 AM | USING SOCIO ECONOMIC INDICATORS FOR REGIONAL INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: TAMIMI, Abdelrahman, Research, Palestinian Hydrology Group, P.O. Box 565, Alnahda Street, Ramallah Israel, a.tamimi@phg.org |
| 124-9 | 10:45 AM | SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF THE TRANSBOUNDARY MOUNTAINOUS AQUIFER SHARED BY ISRAEL AND PALESTINE: ADAR, Eilon M., The J. Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Zukerberg Institute for Water Research, and Department of Environmental Geology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boker Campus 84990, eilon@bgumail.bgu.ac.il |
| 124-10 | 11:05 AM | BRINGING PARTIES TOGETHER: WATER IN THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS: LAWSON, Charles A., NEA/RA, Room 5256, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State, 2201 C Street, NW, Washington, DC 20520, lawsonca@state.gov |
| 124-11 | 11:25 AM | "HYDROSTRATEGIC" TERRITORY IN THE JORDAN BASIN: WATER, WAR, AND ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE NEGOTIATIONS: WOLF, Aaron T., Geosciences, Oregon State University, 104 Wilkinson Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, wolfa@geo.oregonstate.edu |
| | 11:45 AM | Concluding Remarks |
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