Experts gathered at Connecticut College April 3 and 4, 2009, for "Water Scarcity and Conflict," the Elizabeth Babbott Conant Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment. Lectures and discussions examined the root causes of conflicts over water use, assess weaknesses in the current physical and political infrastructure and suggest ways in which water can be used in a more sustainable manner.
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2009 (Presenter Glenn Warner, Professor in the Natural Resources and the Environment Department, University of Connecticut) - The impacts of water supply wells located…
Development of Water Use Management Alternatives…
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2009 (Presenter Deborah Lapidus, National Organizer with Corporate Accountability International) - Clean drinking water is the basis for life, but soon two in three…
Think Outside the Bottle
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2009 (Presenter Amy Vickers, President of Amy Vicketers & Associates, Inc., Amherst, Massachusetts ) - Are we entering a new era of water scarcity or are we…
Water Use and Abuse: Innovations in Conservation
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2009 (Presenter Reed Benson, Professor of Law, University of New Mexico) - The American West has known water scarcity and conflict since the 1800s, and has responded by…
Water Conflicts in the Arid West: The Quest for…
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2009 (Presenter Dr. Peter Gleick, co-founder and President of the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California) - A summary of the world's current freshwater crisis --…
Water: New Thinking for the 21st Century
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2009 (Presenter Mark Smith, Director of the Eastern U.S. Freshwater Program for The Nature Conservancy (TNC)) - This presentation will review examples of how protection…
Balancing Human and Environmental Water Needs…
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2009 (Presenter Mark Levy, Deputy Director of the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)) - An investigation into the spatial and temporal…
Droughts as Triggers for Civil War: Empirical…
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2009 (Presenter Lee Dunbar, Assistant Director of the Planning and Standards Division of the DEP Water Protection and Land Reuse Bureau) - Legislation enacted in 2005…
Connecticut’s Stream Flow Standards:…
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2009 (Presenter Lynne Lewis, Associate Professor of Economics at Bates College in Maine) - In this talk Lewis will discuss the history and economics of water sharing in…
Interstate Water Sharing Agreements: What Have We…
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2009 (Presenter Prof. Kaggere Shivananjaiah Lokesh, Dept. of Environmental Engineering, S.J. College of Engineering, Mysore, Inida) - “Water water everywhere, but…
Interlinking of Indian Rivers: Pros and Cons and…
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2009 (Presenters John Herlihy and Peter Galant, Water Quality and Environmental Management, Aquarion Water Company) - This presentation will describe the key elements of…
Balancing Public Water Supply and In-stream Flow…
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2009 (Presenter Ellen Wohl, Professor, Department of Geoscience, Colorado State University) - People of European descent began to substantially alter the distribution of…
Water Follows the People: The State of the Platte…
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