Phil Anthony | Orange County Water District
Phil Anthony has served on the Orange County Water District (OCWD) Board of Directors since 1981, representing Division 4. Director Anthony served as President of the Board from 1992 to 1995 and again from 2005 to 2007.
In addition to serving on the OCWD Board, Director Anthony is a Director on the National Water Research Institute (NWRI) Board, Commissioner for the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority (SAWPA), Chair of the Groundwater Replenishment System Steering Committee and formerly was Chair of the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) Region 10 Board. He also co-founded the Water Advisory Committee of Orange County (WACO), and is a founding member of OCWD’s Groundwater Guardian Team.
Director Anthony began serving the public in 1962 when he was elected to the Westminster City Council, where he served until 1976; including as Mayor from 1972 to 1976. Director Anthony was on the Orange County Board of Supervisors from 1976 to 1981, as well as the boards of the Orange County Sanitation District, the South Coast Air Quality Management District, Southern California Association of Governments and the Orange County Local Agency Formation Commission. He has served on the Santa Ana River Flood Protection Agency since 1988. He is a real estate developer and President of Philip L. Anthony, Inc., practicing as an independent and public affairs management consultant.
In 2002, Director Anthony received the 2002 E. Benjamin Nelson Government Service Award from The Groundwater Foundation. The prestigious national award honors and recognizes an elected or appointed public official who has significantly advanced environmental and groundwater stewardship. Director Anthony’s extensive community service endeavors include serving as Board President for the Westminster Boys & Girls Club and Board Chairman for the Orange County Taxpayers Association. He also is a member of the Kiwanis Club.
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Ken Matthews | National Water Commission
Ken Matthews has been the Chair and Chief Executive of the National Water Commission since March 2005. Mr Matthews was previously the Secretary of the Department of Transport and Regional Services and the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
Mr Matthews’ academic background is in economics, majoring in government (B.Ec. University of Sydney, 1974). Mr Matthews is a Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration and the Australian Institute of Management.
Mr Matthews received a Centenary Medal in 2001 for services to public administration and was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2005.
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Dr Shane Snyder | R&D Project Manager
Dr. Snyder is the R&D Project Manager for the Southern Nevada Water Authority. He has published more than 70 manuscripts on the occurrence and fate of organic contaminants in water. In 1998, he was credited with the first discovery of natural and synthetic estrogens in North American waters. Dr. Snyder also linked the occurrence of steroids in wastewater to potential endocrine impacts in fish. In 2009, his team published the national survey of pharmaceuticals in US drinking water. In April 2008, Dr. Snyder was one of six experts to testify before the U.S. Senate regarding pharmaceuticals in US waters.
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Greg Leslie | University of New South Wales
Greg Leslie is the deputy director of the UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology at the University of New South Wales. Prior to joining UNSW, he worked in the public and private sector on water treatment, reuse and desalination projects in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong and the United States. This included work on the Singapore NEWater recycling projects at Bedok, Kranji and Seletar and the Groundwater Water Replenishment System at the Orange County Water District (OCWD) in California. He currently serves on the, National Health and Medical Research Council Sub-committee on water issues and the Independent Advisory Panel for the Orange County Groundwater Replenishment Project and was a past member of the World Health Organisation technical committee that developed the guidance document for desalination.
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Tove Larsen | Department of Urban Water Management
Tove Larsen is a chemical engineer with a PhD in process engineering from the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Technical University of Denmark. In 1999, she came to Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, to set up a cross-cutting project on urine source separation (Novaquatis). Novaquatis was successfully terminated in 2006 (www.novaquatis.eawag.ch) and won the swiss-academies award for transdisciplinary research in 2008 for its visionary, innovative and integrative approach to urban water management. At present Tove Larsen heads a group on Concepts in the Department of Urban Water Management at Eawag.
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