October 11, 2023
(The National Press Club: 529 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20045)

Gathering Reception

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October 12, 2023
EPA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

Breakfast

Keynote Session

• Cathy Kling: Welcome Remarks and Motivation for Symposium
• David Lodge, Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability: Welcome and Introduction of Ricky Revesz
• Ricky Revesz, Administrator, U.S. Office for Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA): Keynote Talk, Monetizing Environmental Benefits

Break

Panel: Natural Capital Accounts
Moderator: Nilesh Shinde

• Kenneth Bagstad: Water Accounting in the National Strategy to Develop Statistics for Environmental-Economic Decisions
• Aaron Hrozencik: Irrigation Organizations and Water Quantity and Quality Accounting in the U.S.
• Richard Mitchell: The National Aquatic Resource Surveys: Providing Spatially-Extensive, Nationally Consistent Data
• Travis Warziniack: Forested Watersheds Provide the Highest Water Quality among All Land Cover Types, but the Benefit of This Ecosystem Service Depends on Landscape Context

Audience Discussion with Panel

Lunch
Moderator: Daniel Phaneuf

• Blake Schaeffer: Advances in Remote Sensing of Inland Water Quality

Break

Two Split/Parallel Sessions 

Each paper will be allocated 22 minutes total, 16-18 minutes for presentation followed by 3-5 minutes for questions and discussion.

Session 1: Agriculture, Conservation, and Water Quality
Moderator: Cathy Kling

• Nick Hagerty: Industrial Water Pollution and Agricultural Production
• Nicole Karwowski: Nature’s Kidneys: The Role of the Wetland Reserve Program in Restoring Water Quality
• Claire Palandri: Water Contamination by Animal Feeding Operations: Evidence from Iowa and North Carolina
• Max Pohlman: Empirical Evaluation of Non-Point Source Pollution Abatement – Is an Improvement Detectable?

Session 2: Drinking Water Quality and Health
Moderator: Tihitina Andarge

• James Ji: Water, Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink? Ocean Salinity, Early-Life Health, and Adaptation
• David Keiser: “Water Works: Causes and Consequences of Safe Drinking Water in America?”
• Alecia Cassidy: “Infant Health and Water Impacts of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Cleanups”
• Jeffrey Hadachek: The Costs of Nitrate Pollution in Drinking Water

Break

Two Split/Parallel Sessions 

Each paper will be allocated 22 minutes total, 16-18 minutes for presentation followed by 3-5 minutes for questions and discussion.

Session 3: Valuation of Water Quality I
Moderator: Chris Moore

• Matt Massey: Valuing Recreational Anglers’ Willingness to Pay for Changes in Water Quality Using an Integrated Assessment Model
• Xibo Wan: I Love That Dirty Water? Value of Water Quality in Recreation Sites
• Bonnie Keeler: Value of the Mississippi River
• Fabio Cevenini: From Blue to Brown: Welfare Loss Due to Sediment Runoff in Marine Recreational Sites

Session 4: Drinking Water Quality, Regulation, and Compliance
Moderator: Joel Corona

• Gabriel Lade: Improving Rural Drinking Water Quality Testing Programs in the United States: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Iowa
• Laura Alcocer Quinones: The Effect of Regulation on Water Quality: Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in California Drinking Water
• Romeo Ignacio: Governance Disparities and Drinking Water Compliance: Evidence from California
• Young Gwan Lee: The Impacts of Upstream Unconventional Oil and Gas Development on Safe Drinking Water Act Compliance

Adjourn

October 13, 2023

Breakfast

Papers at the Forefront of Water Quality IAMs and Audience Discussion
Moderator: Tihitina Andarge & Mainul Hoque

Each presentation will be allocated 15-17 minutes. After completion of the 3^rd presentation, there will be a short break for 15 minutes. The last 30 minutes will be allocated for Q&A.

• George Van Houtven: The Nationwide Economic Benefits of Achieving the Stated Goals of the Clean Water Act
• Joel Corona and Alyssa Le: HAWQS 2.0 and BenSPLASH – a Short Demonstration of EPA’s Updated Water Quality Modeling and Valuation Tools
• Nilesh Shinde: “Social Cost of Water Pollution in the United States”

Break

• Emiko Fergus: A Hybrid Modeling Framework Combining Strengths of HAWQS and Structural Equation Models to Support Existence Valuation Studies on Aquatic Biological Assemblages
• David Smith: Social Cost of Nutrient Pollution in US Freshwater Streams
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• Junyoung Jeong: A Dynamic Regional Integrated Assessment Model to Assess the Impacts of Deglobalization and Environmental Stewardship on the Regional Economy and Water Quality

Egg Timer Presentations (5 minutes per paper)
Moderator: David Keiser

• Alyssa Le: “What Is ‘Average’ Water Quality? Evaluating the Effects of Spatial and Temporal Dynamics on the Valuation of Water Quality Improvements”
• Hongxing Liu: Understanding Community Resilience with Focus on Water Resource by Coupling Human and Natural Systems
• Chuan Tang: Quantifying the Water Quality Impacts of Intensive Farming in China: A Satellite Data Approach
• Nabin Khanal: Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Drinking Water: A Socio-economic Perspective
• Mani Rouhi Rad: Managing Soil and Water Salinity in an Irrigated Agricultural Region

Lunch 

2 Split/Parallel Sessions

Each paper will be allocated 24 minutes total, 18-20 minutes for presentation followed by 4-6 minutes for questions and discussion.

Session 1: Policy
Moderator: Nilesh Shinde

• Laura Grant: “The Impacts of Water Groups on Firm Over-compliance”
• David Newburn: Modeling Spatial Conforming Effects on Household Lawncare Practices: Implications for Fertilizer Use and Nonpoint-Source Pollution Emissions
• Rob Johnston: Spatial Dynamics and Preference Heterogeneity for Transboundary Nonpoint Pollution Reductions: Implications for International Environmental Agreements
• Youngho Kim: Penalties, Targeting, and Performance in Payment for Ecosystem Services Programs
• Alejandro Nin Pratt: A Multifactor Measurement of Productivity and Environmental Efficiency of Water Used in Agriculture

Session 2: Valuation of Water Quality II
Moderator: Cathy Kling

• Dennis Guignet: Valuing the Impacts of Hazardous Chemicals on Environmental Endpoints: Challenges and Opportunities
• Jessica Balukas: Decision-making When Using a Meta-regression Model to Estimate the Social Costs of Water Pollution
• Andrew Earle: Causal Inference, High-frequency Data, and the Recreational Value of Water Quality?
• Kristen Swedberg: Understanding the Impact of Water Quality Model Precision on Economic Benefit Estimates in Environmental Policy
• Yongjie Ji: The Value of Clean Water in Stream and Rivers: Evidence from Water-adjacent Properties

Wrap-up