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Tom Arsuffi (Junction campus; Natural Resources Management), “Aquatic Invasive Species as Hazards in Water Resources.”

Michael Farmer (Agricultural and Applied Economics; Natural Resources Management) presented: “Failure to Plan or Planning Failure?”

Michael Farmer (Agricultural and Applied Economics; Natural Resources Management) presented:  “Hazards of R&D and Adoption Delays from Water Policy Infrastructure”

Patrick S. Pauley, Matt T. Baker, Jim Smith, and David Doerfert, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Tx' Philip Kelley, Boise State University, Boise, ID. " Political and Civic Engagement of Agriculture Producers who Operate in Slected Idaho and Texas Counties Dependent on Irrigation."

UCOWR, of which Texas Tech University is a member, is an organization of universities, non-academic institutions (government groups, industry), and international affiliates leading in water resources research and education.  Next year’s theme is “International Water Resources; Challenges for the 21st Century.”
July 24-26 , 2007

"Prize-winning M.S. thesis results in article by Justin Baker and David Willis on analyzing transboundary conflict resolution"
Fall, 2006

 

David Haukos' work on playa lakes noted in Audubon Magazine article
Decembert 5, 2006

 

Dr. Loren Smith's Work on Playa Lakes Noted
August 12, 2006

Clovis News Journal

The Santa Fe New Mexican

 

Water-saving goals not attainable by technology, management alone
August 5, 2006

Awareness of potential water shortages is increasing, most recently due to a prolonged drought that has parched Texas and most of the western United States. Periods such as this always create problems, even in regions where water is more plentiful than in West Texas. Yet the pinch is especially noticed on the High Plains, where rainfall - and therefore stored surface water - is limited and stored groundwater is essentially finite.

 

Communities, Not Just Crops, Depend on Irrigation
June 13, 2006

About 90 percent of the Ogallala Aquifer water pumped in this region is used for agricultural crops. But that's not all the irrigation water is growing, area economists say. A close look at the impact of irrigation on rural communities is being taken by economists with Texas Cooperative Extension, West Texas A&M University, Texas Tech University and Kansas State University. The study is a part of the Ogallala Aquifer Initiative, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service.

 

As Aquifer Drops, Attention Turns to Nine Counties
May 24, 2006

In order to preserve water supply for the future a Texas Tech professor says there are nine counties that need our special attention. Is Lubbock one of them? Lubbock sits atop the world’s largest underground water system.

 

Saving the Southwest From Salt Cedars
April 2006


Dr. Loren Smith, Kleberg Professor of wildlife ecology at Texas Tech and his team are waging war on armies of salt cedars. Salt cedars are a growing concern in the Southwest, where both cities and farmers have watched their groundwater supplies shrink in recent years as the plants deplete rivers and lakes. The shrubs drink twice the water consumed by their native predecessors.


Can They Save the Ogallala? (And the Farmer?)
March 2006


Scientists, farmers, and others have set out to see whether Southern High Plains growers can pump less irrigation water and still maintain their profit levels. Cotton alone carried them far in the past. Good prices, revenue-enhancing federal programs, and tradition have steered producers toward this crop as a monoculture for decades.



Water Resource Management in the Driest Continent in the World
March 2006


A personal view of Austrailan water resource management by Mr. Richard Swinton, Resource Management Officer (Water), NSW Department of Primary Industries, Australia. Mr. Swinton began his career as an irrigated rice grower in the southern part of NSW. He became heavily involved with irrigation research and extension as a farmer representative on, and later chair of a local Government Agency working group and an Irrigation Advisory Officer at the Department of Primary Industries..