...that was the title of our international conference this week in Burlingame/San Francisco. Complete with pre-conference workshops and a post-conference tour of lovely Sonoma Valley and it's dairies and wineries. The conference was an amazing gathering of movers and shakers, thinkers and tinkerers, decision-makers, policy makers, planners, farmers, ag-industry representatives, consultants, students, even high-school students, and researchers. Attendees came from California, from across the United States, and from around the globe - Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, Australia. All had one thing in common - a shared interest in groundwater resources of agricultural regions and in agriculture's role in sustaining groundwater resources for future uses in agriculture and for other uses.
If you want to get a flavor for the information from the conference - Michael Campana blogged about the meeting this week (thank you, Michael!) - he was one of our final panelists. And here are my own personal - and much drier - "classroom notes" from the conference, covering about a quarter of the presentations. Mind that these are unedited and I am not guaranteeing either completeness nor accuracy! Vivian Jensen generously provided her notes as well.
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