International groundwater experts visit KU
KU hosted groundwater experts from four Asian countries last month to share information about water issues.
The International Water Management Institute sponsored the program, which is designed to expose the Asian participants to groundwater issues and management challenges in the United States and to expose the Kansas participants to Asian water management issues.
John Peck, professor of law, coordinated the group along with Diana Carlin, dean of the Graduate School and International Programs. Their schedule included presentations by staff members of the Kansas Geological Survey about Kansas groundwater issues, talks by the visitors about conditions in their countries, visits with faculty at Washburn University and the University of Missouri-Kansas City and meetings with officials at the Kansas Division of Water Resources and other Kansas water agencies.
The group spent several days in western Kansas viewing water projects and meeting with personnel from cities, industry, groundwater management districts and the Kansas State University Agriculture Extension Service. The group spent three weeks in Kansas from Nov. 26 to Dec. 16.
