Purpose
Water resource planning under periods of uncertainty challenges practioners to provide sufficient, consistent water supplies for personal consumption as well as for economic stability of business and industry while addressing extreme runoff events that are occurring in with increased frequency. Risk management and sustainability are critical issues facing policymakers, water resource engineers, treatment plant managers, community planners, and public works system operators throughout the nation. Identifying the risk impacts of climate pattern shifts in a framework of adaptive management strategies is important in addressing solutions. Water use policy and pricing options, modeling tools, mitigation methods, and engineered best practices offer a toolbox to the water resource manager. This workshop will frame the discussion of risk, identification of adaptive management options, the role of conservation, best practice alternatives, and an overall framework of how to survive in an environment of continued uncertainty.

1. Provide a comprehensive overview of the challenges that define the degree of risk in water resource management today
2. Understanding the technical, practical, and economic tools available to adapt to change
3. Provide a review of “green” strategies in urban water resource management.
4. Discussion of available analytical tools and models
5. Review mitigation alternatives as well as an understanding of infrastructure system issues such as dam and reservoir safety, levee certification, and flood control policies
6. Identify a framework for adaptive management in addressing climate shifts and impacts

Who Should Attend
Water resource management impacts multiple disciplines and has far-reaching impacts in urban water supply management, land-use planning, water resources protection, green infrastructure best management practices, modeling, water economics, and policy. Risk management and the strategies of adaptive options will be of interest to local, state, and federal government administrators and regulators, community planners, civil/environmental engineers, environmental professionals/consultants, environmentalists, and interested citizens.
Workshop Training Approach
The workshop will be taught through interactive lectures, handouts, and case studies.
Presented By:
AMEC Earth & Environmental 
Dr. Charles M. Brendecke, PE, who has more than 35 years of diverse experience in hydrology, water resources engineering, and water resources planning and management. He has directed or contributed to several river-basin water management studies that involved detailed inventories of basin hydrology and water demands, as well as development of planning models to investigate implications of reservoir systems operations and growth in basin water demands. 
Mr. Ben Harding, PE, whose practice has focused on the design, development, and use of hydrologic and river/reservoir system models, decision support systems, hydraulic models, water-quality models. Mr. Harding specializes in the areas of forecasting, assessing climate change impacts, and the use of paleohydrology. He recently developed the first probabilistic analyses of water availability in the Colorado River Basin based on several different reconstructions of paleo flows. 
Mr. Andrew J. Reese is nationally known in the field of urban water management.  Mr. Reese has been a popular speaker at over 200 conferences and meetings including the keynote for the first annual STORMCON conference, Association of State Floodplain Managers, National Association of Flood and Stormwater Management Agency, and National League of Cities national conferences, and a number of state organizations. He teaches short courses across the United States on urban water resource issues, and he has published over 45 articles and papers nationally and internationally on subjects such as hydraulic research, urban stormwater management, regulatory compliance, and water quality. 
The instructors have national and international practical experience and have advised municipal, county, and state governments as well as regional authorities.  In addition, they have partnered with universities in critical research in water resource management and climate impacts.

This session will explore the relationship among the components of high-performance water-heating systems by laying out the plumbing for a typical building on the floor of the classroom. The hot water locations will be drawn out to full scale using painter’s tape to draw the building. Then, tape of different widths, representing pipe of different diameters will be used to “pipe” the building. The efficiency of different hot water distribution systems will be evaluated in terms of water, energy, and time.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe how the choice of water heater affects water conservation. Tank and tankless water heaters, both gas and electric will be compared, as will hybrids and solar water heating
2. Explore how the way a hot water distribution system is structured determines the waste of water, energy, and time
3. Discuss the implications of how changing hot water outlet flow rates will impact the ability to conserve water over time with primary emphasis on showerheads and faucets
4. Consider how to incorporate these issues into programs and codes

Presented By:
Gary Klein, Managing Partner
Affiliated International Management, LLC

Gary has been intimately involved in energy efficiency and renewable energy since 1973. One-fourth of his career was spent in the Kingdom of Lesotho, the rest in the United States. He has a passion for hot water: getting into it, getting out of it, and efficiently delivering it to meet customers needs. Recently completing 19 years with the California Energy Commission, his new firm, Affiliated International Management LLC, provides consulting on sustainability through its international team of affiliates. Gary received a BA from Cornell University in 1975 with an Independent Major in Technology and Society with an emphasis on energy conservation and renewable energy.

This workshop will show how agencies have successfully allocated water to customers, designed tiers, customer service and conservation programs, and stabilized necessary agency revenues. This workshop will detail the process, the data, how water budget rates are designed, how customers are educated, and how the politics of water rates are successfully navigated.  Attendees to this workshop will also see a display of a rate-structure modeling tool used to test the rate structure for delivering adequate revenues and a clear conservation message at the same time.

1. Provide a foundation of what makes a rate structure successful for both the agency and customers

2. Discuss the barriers to implementing “conservation” rate structures
3. Listing the elements of a water-budget rate structure
4. Discuss the types and sources of data needed to implement a water-budget rate structure
5. Provide an outline for the design and implementation of a water-budget rate structure
6. Provide examples of how to fund conservation
7. Provide a clear path that can be used to implement a successful rate structure (stable revenues, customer equity and conservation) at any city and/or water agency

Handouts will be provided on all aspects of the presentation, including the PowerPoint presentation. A range of resources on water budget rate structure and conservation program assistance will be provided upon requests.

Session I
Advanced Metering: Overview of the growing presence of non-mechanical smart metering technologies such as ultrasonic, magnetic, and fluidic oscillation. It is the starting point of the revenue chain and critical to successful conservation efforts.

Session II
Advanced AMR: Overview of how AMR has become smarter of the last few years with the additional benefits of theft, leak-and-tamper detection, and data logging. Data collection techniques in a mobile drive-by environment will be discussed. AMR is not AMI.

Session III
AMI Basics: One way, two ways, sideways, no way. What is AMI? Why is fresher, more robust consumption data important? What can it really do? Why 12 daily reads are better than one. The smart grid.

Session IV
Advanced MDM: Streams of timely, robust, granular data are now available 24/7 to water utilities. Learn how Meter Data Management harnesses this information and converts it into actionable intel to empower management for successful utility planning, development of water loss-strategies, and deliver best-in-class customer care programs. Application data integration such as SCATA will be discussed.

Session V
Q&A panel of consultants with audience participation.

 Session VI (Optional)
Either a separate session or it can parsed into the above sessions. Application case study showcase with a 30-minute max for three different case studies focusing on the newest technologies and their advanced applications.