2025 Spring Conference
*You must first create a user profile for each attendee you register!
Riviera Resort & Spa Palm Springs
1600 North Indian Canyon Drive Palm Springs, CA 92262-4602 United States
UWI's Spring Conference
Join us February 26-28, 2025, at the Urban Water Institute’s 2025 Spring Conference in Palm Springs, California!
Leading experts will deliver presentations on today’s most pressing water management issues, representing a broad range of expertise and non-partisan perspectives. Conference highlights include enhanced networking opportunities, access to keynote speakers, meals and happy hours included with your Conference registration.
UWI Conferences bring together elite water leaders from throughout California representing public, private, nonprofit and academic organizations. This conference is sure to be one of the best water conferences of the year!
Spring Conference Registration
Online registration is now open for UWI's 2025 Spring Conference!
Please note: You will need a user account to begin the registration process. If you are registering multiple attendees, each attendee will need a profile with a unique email address. You can create additional user profiles in your Member Compass under the People tab. Please contact us if you do not see this tab so that we can give you management access on your account.
A printed registration form is also available (upon request) if you are unable to register online.
Cancellation Policy: Event registration cancellations will be accepted until 2/14/25 and will be subject to a $50 processing fee. Cancellations received after 2/14/25 are not eligible for refund.
Spring Conference Agenda
The 2025 Spring Conference Agenda is available through the Agenda tab above. If you have suggestions for future conference speakers or topics, please use the Contact Us form to submit your ideas.
"UWI epitomizes authenticity. Thought-provoking programs planned by insightful water leaders with an eye toward pushing the envelope (and some buttons)."
- Sean Fitzgerald, Owner, Vox Civic Communications
Spring Conference Date & Time
The UWI 2025 Spring Conference dates and times are as follows:
- Conference begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
- Conference ends: Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Spring Conference Location
Riviera Resort & Spa Palm Springs
1600 N Indian Canyon Dr
Palm Springs, CA 92262
(760) 778-3341
A limited number of discounted hotel rooms are available to UWI Conference attendees. We recommend booking your room early to access the group block. If you have any issues booking your hotel room, please contact our Events Director, Paula Currie: events@urbanwater.com.
Conference Sponsorship Opportunities
Annual sponsorships and exhibitor opportunities are now available for our 2025 Spring Conference. Please visit our Sponsorship page for more information. Thank you to our sponsors!
Agenda
| February 26 | |
| 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM |
Wildfires, Water Supply & Worst-Case Scenarios
Opening Keynote Presentation featuring: Dr. Gregory Pierce, UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation |
| 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM |
Water: Wet Water, Paper Water, Virtual Water
Panel Presentation featuring: Tom Philp, The Sacramento Bee (no presentation file) Edward Ring, California Policy Center (no presentation file) Dr. Jay Lund, UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences (no presentation file) |
| 3:10 PM - 4:15 PM |
PFAS: Not Only Diamonds are Forever
Panel Presentation featuring: Dr. Anna Reade, Environmental Health Major General R. Mark Toy, Yorba Linda Water District (no presentation file) |
| 4:20 PM - 5:30 PM |
Going to the Well Too Often – Eventually It Runs Dry
Panel Presentation featuring: Jessica Neuwerth, The Colorado River Board of California Bart Leeflang, Central Utah Water Conservancy District Patrick Dent, Central Arizona Project |
| February 27 | |
| 8:45 AM - 9:55 AM |
Central Valley Update
Panel Presentation featuring: Steve Sexton, BRG Aaron Fukuda, Mid-Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Tulare Irrigation District Chris Tantau, Greater Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency, Kaweah Delta Water Conservation District (no presentation file) |
| 10:00 AM - 11:10 AM |
LA is All-In on Recycling
Panel Presentation featuring: Intro by Janisse Quiñones, Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (no presentation file) Jesus Gonzalez, Los Angeles Department of Water & Power Ryan Thiha, LA Sanitation and Environment (no presentation file) |
| 11:15 AM - 12:25 PM |
Silos in SGMA
Panel Presentation featuring: Dusty Ference, Kings County Farm Bureau (no presentation file) Allison Febbo, Westlands Water District (no presentation file) Lacey McBride, Merced County (no presentation file) |
| 1:30 PM - 2:10 PM |
Communicating the Value of Water
Keynote Presentation featuring: Steve Snyder, Denver Water |
| 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM |
Squeezing Blood Out of a Rock
Panel Presentation featuring: Tia Fleming, California Water Efficiency Partnership Kendra Olmos, EKI Environment & Water Elizabeth Lovsted, San Diego County Water Authority (no presentation file) |
| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
The Future Isn't What It Used To Be– Planning for Tomorrow
Keynote Presentation featuring: Tiffany Baca, Municipal Water District of Orange County, Water Energy Education Alliance |
| February 28 | |
| 9:15 AM - 10:30 AM |
California at the Crossroads: People, Politics & Power in 2025
Panel Presentation featuring: Eric Sapirstein, ENS Resources Eric O’Donnell, Townsend Public Affairs Joaquin Esquivel, State Water Resources Control Board (no presentation file) |
Riviera Resort & Spa Palm Springs
1600 N Indian Canyon Dr
Palm Springs, CA 92262
(760) 778-3341
UWI Room Block Reservation Link
A limited number of discounted hotel rooms are available to UWI Conference attendees. We recommend booking your room early to access the group block. If you have any issues booking your hotel room, please contact our Events Director, Paula Currie: events@urbanwater.com.
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