Day One: Monday, July 19 | 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM ET

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Presenter affiliations are listed in the session descriptions. Personal designations are not included in the program.

11:00 AM - 1:30 PM | Welcome & Introductory Remarks/Opening Keynote/Early Lunch
  • Scott Kudlas, President AWRA
  • Jim Holway and Sharon Megdal, Conference Committee Co-Chairs
  • Opening Keynote: Tanya Trujillo, Interior Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, Introduced by Ted Kowalski, Walter Family Foundation

1:30 PM - 2:45 PM ET | Afternoon Breakout Sessions 1, 2, & 3

Session Descriptions

Session 1: Nationwide Land Use and Water Planning: Policy and Practice
Moderator: Erin Rugland

Session 2: Understanding Outdoor Water Use for Growing Western Communities
Moderator: Austin Troy

Session 3: Chasing Unicorns: A New Model for Urban Stream Management
Moderators: Laura Kroeger and Jesse Clark

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM ET | Break

3:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Afternoon Breakout Sessions 4, 5, & 6

Session Descriptions

Session 4: Innovation & Green Infrastructure: Rediscovering Water in the Built Environment through Design
Moderator: Brian Farling, Jones Studio
Extended Time

Session 5: Using Land Use-Water Use Indicators in the American West
Moderators: Jacob Petersen-Perlman and Tamee Albrecht

Session 6: Ensuring One Water Delivers for Healthy Waterways
Moderator: Jennifer Walker

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Crowdsourcing Land and Water Dialogues

This time is reserved to continue the conversation from sessions today. Attendees will vote on which sessions they want to continue to discuss, and the top two will be added as Breakout Rooms. You will choose which Breakout Room to attend starting at 4:30 PM.

  • Poll Topic 1: TBD - pending attendee Vote
  • Poll Topic 2: TBD - pending attendee Vote
  • Poll Topic 3: Observations and Findings of the Connecting Land & Water for Healthy Communities Conference Highlights Report
    • Join us for the last session of today to on the Observations and Findings of the Connecting Land & Water for Healthy Communities Conference Highlights Report. During this highly interactive, professionally facilitated session, participants will be asked to consider potential conference findings and observations and calls to action, and to help us crowd source known best practices. The final Observations and Findings report will be a compilation of information shared during all the sessions. It will serve as a touch stone in developing forward matter for the upcoming Journal of American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) Featured Series on the same topic and provide material for one or more articles in AWRA's Water Resources IMPACT Magazine. The highlights will also inform development of an AWRA Land and Water policy. In addition to AWRA's intended uses, the document will be widely available for use by the conference participants in their own organizations and professional disciplines.

    Can't make the session? We still want your contributions. Material developed during the session will be available for new additions based on insights gathered during the day's sessions and comments on material already compiled. We look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas.

End of Day One

Join us tomorrow at 11:00 AM ET | Preview the July 20 program.

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