Dear Participants,

The U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Department of State kindly invite you to join the second session of the U.S. Ambassador’s Water Experts Program (AWEP) webinar series on Irrigation and Agricultural Water Use Efficiency.

Agenda:

09:00    Welcoming addresses

09:15    Presentation on Deficit Irrigation by Dr. Brent Draper, the National Resource Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

09:50    Questions and Answers

10:10    Presentation on Water Infrastructure Improvement Modeling Tool, IrrigationViz by Dr. Bo Saulsbury’ team, Pacific Northwest National Lab of the Department of Energy (DOE).

10:45    Questions and Answers

11:00    Closing

This webinar will take place via ZoomGov on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 from 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Tashkent time. Please join the webinar using this link:

 https://www.zoomgov.com/j/1613753187

This session will provide in-depth information on how the U.S. has successfully applied the deficit irrigation method in the arid western United States as well as introduce and demonstrate the IrrigationViz irrigation infrastructure improvement modelling software, a new tool currently in development.

The session will feature simultaneous translation into Uzbek.