[ca-gw] Help Needed!!

[Steve Bilson]

My experience with COWA back when I was a member was they were so focused on
total wastewater disposal systems that they didn't have time to think about
greywater irrigation, much less do anything about it.  The codes are so
different that there isn't much cross technology either.  And lastly, the
full-house disposal solution paradigm appeared so much more profitable to
COWA members that greywater irrigation seemed an unwanted bother.

 

From: ca-standard-bounces at graywater.org
[mailto:ca-standard-bounces at graywater.org] On Behalf Of Banner, Brad
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 10:49 AM
To: ca-standard at graywater.org
Subject: [ca-gw] Help Needed!!

 

Dear Graywater Aficionados:

 

I am taking the lead in planning the annual conference and trade show this
year for the California Onsite Wastewater Association (COWA). COWA is the
only entity in our state that represents all onsite wastewater stakeholders,
including engineers, contractors, landscape architects, Realtors,
homebuilders, academia, and product manufacturers, as well as regulators.
With about 300 members and a newsletter that goes out ot over 1,000
stakeholders, COWA has historically had a significant impact on wastewater
policy in California.

 

This broad representation makes COWA ideally suited to address and shed
light complex, multi-faceted issues, such as graywater reuse, recycled water
(wastewater), and rainwater harvesting, which will be to focus of this
year's annual conference and trade show.  Our plan is to use the Internet to
project speakers from around the world and across the country, as well as
speakers from California, onto our 13-ft screen.

 

We know that these are difficult economic times, and after extensive
planning and consultation, we have incorporated other cost-saving
innovations that will allow us to keep registration fees to a bare minimum.
Instead of one, large 3+ day conference held at a costly hotel, we are
planning to hold two regional, 2-day conferences in comfortable but
cost-conscious venues. For example, the Northern California conference will
be held on at the Gold Country Casino, which has a beautiful, well equipped
conference room and delicious food, but doesn't cost an arm and a leg. We
are also planning the conference to be held in late Fall so that the
conference can be budgeted by regulators under severe travel restrictions.

 

I hope you can see the tremendous potential value of this conference.  Now I
need your help!!!!!

 

Specifically, I need names and contact information for potential speakers
from the locales shown below. Also if you know the potential speakers, it
would be helpful if you contacted them and put in a good word for the
conference.

.         Israel

.         Palestine

.         Jordan

.         Australia

.         Germany

.         (Other international suggestions?)

 

.         Texas

.         Arizona

.         New Mexico

.         Colorado

.         I have contacts in WA

.         (Other USA-based suggestions?)

 

.         Who from this group would be willing to present or have a booth at
the conference (no speaker fees and there will be a booth fee of some sort)

 

Thank you in advance for any assistance in this matter.

 

-Brad, EH Director, Butte County

 

 

 

 

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