Desal for California’s Waterfull Future 2023 Conference Conference Schedule

Day 1: Thursday, February 16, 2023 – 8:30 AM – 5:15 PM

8:30 – Conference Opening and Welcome + Continental Breakfast

(CalDesal Chair Mark Donovan and Executive Director Glenn Farrel)

8:45 – 10:00 – Session 1 - Setting the Stage: California Water/Climate Conditions and Governor’s Water Supply Strategy

• Moderator: Marice DePasquale, Vice Chair, CalDesal o Karla Nemeth, Director, Department of Water Resources (Invited) o Joaquin Esquivel, Chair, State Water Resources Control Board o Dr. Kate Huckelbridge, Executive Director, California Coastal Commission

10:00 – 10:15 – Break

10:15 – 11:15 – Session 2 – Legislative Perspectives on Desalination

• Moderator: Danielle Blacet-Hyden, Director for Water, California Municipal Utilities Association o Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, Chair, Assembly Water, Parks, & Wildlife Committee o Kris Anderson - Legislative Advocate, Association of California Water Agencies

11:15 – 11:30 – Break

11:30-12:45 – Lunch – Keynote Speaker: o Wade Crowfoot, Secretary, Natural Resources Agency

1:00 – 2:15 – Session 3 – Lessons Learned: Doheny and Monterey

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Moderator: Paul Hermann, GHD o Rick Shintaku, General Manager, South Coast Water District (Doheny Desalination Project) o Mark Donovan, North American Water Treatment and Desalination Lead, GHD (Doheny Desalination Project) o Ian Crooks, Vice President, California American Water (Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project) o Evan Jacobs, External Affairs, California American Water (Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project) o Brian Villalobos, Geoscience

2:30 – 5:15 – Session 4 – Track A: Offsite Tour at ISI Intake Screens

2:30 – 4:00 – Session 4 – Track B: Innovations in Desalination

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Moderator: Tom Pankratz, Editor – Water Desalination Report o Dr. Michael Porter/Robert Bergstrom, Natural Ocean Well: Sustainable fresh water from the ocean o Dr. Dale Nesbitt, Reticle Water Treatment: Electrostatic deionization and brine remediation o Borja Blanco, Membrane design of a subsea desalination system o Arian Edalat, Active Membrane Desalination: The next generation of desalination membranes o John Webley, Brine softening for ultra-high recovery membrane systems o Alexander Fuglesang/Christian Ablesson, Subsea Desalination – A new adaptation of SWRO leading to significant energy savings and greatly reduced environmental impact

4:00 – 5:15 – Session 5 – Track B: New Frontiers

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Moderator: Chris Coppinger, Geoscience

in Brackish Desalination

o Scott Weddle, City of Antioch’s brackish surface water desalination project o Maryam Bral, A path to groundwater sustainability: Preventing and reversing historic seawater intrusion and providing a resilient desalinated water supply for the Oxnard Basin o Greg Kowalski, Spotlight on Eastern Municipal Water District’s desalination program

5:15 – Wrap-up and reminder of Day 2 conference activities

(Executive Director Glenn Farrel)

5:30 – CalDesal Reception – Embassy Suites – 1st Floor Reception Area Continued on next page

Day 2: Friday, February 17, 2023 – 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM

8:00 – 9:00 – Continental Breakfast

Session 6 – Research in Desal

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Moderator: Michelle Peters, Poseidon Water o Peter Fiske, NAWI o Brent Alspach, Economic value of seawater desalination o Warren Teitz, Metropolitan Water District

9:00 – 10:15 – Session 7 – Meet the Regulators

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Moderator: Bryan Blum, Longitude 123 o Tom Luster, California Coastal Commission o Laura McLellan, State Water Resources Control Board (Invited) o Alexandra Borack, State Lands Commission o Sean Sou, Department of Water Resources

10:15-10:20 – Break

10:20 – 11:30 – Session 8 – Carlsbad Experience in Complying with the OPA

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Moderator: Tim Hogan, TWB Environmental Research and Consulting o Custis Gauthier, Planning and designing an OPA compliant ocean intake facility o Eric Miller, Brine and the marine environment: Evidence from the first environmental monitoring of a seawater desalination plant discharge under California’s 2015 amendment to the California Ocean Plan o Maria Elena Rodriguez Hernandez, Fish-friendly pumps for the new dilution pumping station: Carlsbad Desalination Plant o Sandra Kerl, General Manager – San Diego County Water Authority

11:30-11:35 – Break

11:35-1:00 – Session 9 –

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Project Delivery Methodologies and Plant Operations

Moderator: Kim Adamson, Kiewit Infrastructure o Mark Alpert, SB 991 – Water supply reliability through progressive design build o Brent Brodie, Executive Vice President of Business Development, Consolidated Water o Devesh Bharadwaj, Using “Process Operations AI” to fill the missing link in plant

O&M: Enabling a more efficient, resilient, and sustainable desal future o Paul Krause, Subtidal intake systems for desalination – Considerations to minimize marine impacts o Nicholas Hicks, High alloy stainless steels selection, specification, and design for SWRO applications

1:00 – Final Remarks and Conference Close (Chair Mark Donovan and ED Glenn Farrel)