2011 Forum Videos
Water, Conflict, and Human Rights: Emerging Challenges and Solutions 2011
Wednesday, February 23
Opening Keynote Address:
The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
Maude Barlow: National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians (Canada's largest public
advocacy organization), and founder of the Blue Planet Project, which works internationally
for the right to water.
Thursday, February 24
Opening Panel: Water Demand: Population Growth, Economic Development and Energy
Moderator: Steven Burian, The University of Utah
Water Demand for the World's largest Water User
Zach Frankel, Founder and Executive Director, Utah Rivers Council
Risk, Perception, Precaution and the Climate-Water Nexus
Anya Plutynski, Associate Professor, Philosophy, The University of Utah
Water: Plan, Conserve, Develop and Protect
Dennis Strong, Director, Utah Division of Water Resources
Discussion with Q & A
Keynote: The Water Crisis, New Solutions, and the Role of the Human Right to Water
Peter Gleick: Co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California. His research and writing address the critical connections between water and human health, the hydrologic impacts of climate change, sustainable water use, privatization and globalization, and international conflicts over water resources.
Panel: Water Privatization: Inter-Basin Water Transfers, Democracy, and Human Rights
Struggles for Water Justice in Latin America: Alternatives to Privatization
Susan Spronk, Assistant Professor, School of International Development and Global
Studies, University of Ottawa
Balancing the Gradient: Using Grassroots Organizing, Public Participation and Legal
Strategies to Ensure that Interbasin Water Transfers Do Not Destroy Environmental
and Cultural Rights to Water in the Rural West
Simeon Herskovits, Director and Chief Counsel, Advocates for Community and Environment
Constructing the 'Public' of Public Goods: The Role of Organizing Principles
LaDawn Haglud, Assistant Professor, Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University
Discussion with Q & A
Friday, February 25
Panel: Water Quality, Ecosystems and their Restoration, Community Well-being and Public Health
Moderator: Ted Wilson, Utah Governor's Office
Clean Water and Communities: Rights and Responsibilities
Robert Adler, Professor, S. J. Quinney College of Law, The University of Utah
River Restoration in the U. S.
Daniel McCool, Professor and Director, Environmental Studies, University of Utah
Restoring clean water in wetlands and watersheds
Joy Zedler, Professor, Botany, University of Wisconsin
Protecting and Restoring Our Waters When It's Much Easier to Do Otherwise
Walter Baker, Director, Division of Water Quality, Utah Department of Environmental
Quality
Discussion with Q & A
Panel: Water Conflict Case Studies: Stakeholder Mediation, Dialogue and Lessons Learned
Moderator: Deborah Callister, The University of Utah
Better Red Than Dead? Conflict or Cooperation in the Dead Sea Basin
Joseph Dellapenna, Professor of Law, Villanova University
Potential Effects of Reduced Groundwater from the Water Aquifer under the Goshute
Indian Reservation
Madeline Greymountain, Member, Confederated Tribes of Goshute Reservations
What Would Elvis Say? Mississippi v. Memphis and the Curious Case of the Memphis Sand
Aquifer
Michael Campana, Professor, Hydrogeology and Water Resources, Oregon State University
Discussion with Q & A
Conference Closing Remarks
Thomas Maloney: Director, The Barbara L. and Norman C. Tanner Center for Nonviolent Human Rights Advocacy, The University of Utah