Global Forum on Water
The Forum took place April 1-4, 2004.

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Global Forum on Water by clicking here.

The public Forum brought together science, technology, public policy, urban design, ethics, philosophy and art. The purpose of the Global Forum was to present new information and thinking about Water as well as the state of Water in the world, and projections for the future. The goal of the Forum was to provoke new ways of looking at the relationship of human society and Water - and what Water itself needs to perform and sustain its life-giving functions on earth.

LIST OF SPEAKERS BIOS
Thursday, April 1, 7pm: Opening presentation, Designing for the Future
The Menil Collection
William McDonough, internationally renowned designer awarded the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development by President Clinton and founder of acclaimed urban design firm William McDonough + Partners.

Friday, April 2, 8:15am-4:45pm: The State of Water in the World
Rice University, Duncan Hall, McMurtry Auditorium
Sandra Postel, Director of Global Water Policy Project and Pew Foundation Fellow in Conservation and the Environment - State of Water in the World
David Auerbach, Prof. of Fluid Dynamics, University of Graz, Austria, and leader of European Water Group - The Hydrological Cycle
Ambassador E. Djerejian, Director, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University - Water and International Conflict, the Middle East
Rob Dunbar, Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University - Global Climate Change and Water
Robert Jackson, Dept. of Biology and Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University - How Climate Change Will Affect Water
Mary Kelly, Senior Attorney and Program Director for U.S./Mexico Border Initiatives, Environmental Defense, Austin, TX - Texas Water and the Border
James Blackburn, Environmental Attorney, Blackburn & Carter, PC - Water and Houston
Mark Rose, General Manager and CEO, Bluebonnet Electric Co-op - Texas 'Water Wars' and Overview of Water Management in Texas
David Nicolas Lamothe, Project Manager, Office International de l'Eau, France
Jim Lester, Director of the Environment Group, Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC)

Saturday, April 3, 8:30am-4:45pm: Re-Visioning Water, The Future
Rice University, Duncan Hall, McMurtry Auditorium
Maude Barlow, co-author of Blue Gold and Volunteer Chairperson, The Council of Canadians - Global Water, A New Politics
Carla Valentine-Pryne, Episcopal Minister and Founder, Earth Ministry, Seattle, WA - Approaching a New Ethics
Herbert Dreiseitl, Director, Atelier Dreiseitl, Germany) - Designing Cities for Water
Jerome Delli Priscoli (Senior Advisor at the U.S. Corps of Engineers' Institute for Water Resources - Global Overview of Water Policy-making
Mark Wiesner, Director, EESI, and Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Rice University - Technology, A Look at the Future
Joe Hughes, Professor, Civil Engineering, Georgia Tech - Environmental Bio-Technology and Micro-organisms
Maureen Stapleton, San Diego County Water Authority - Conservation and Innovative Alternatives

Sunday, April 4, 2-4pm: Water and Our Health, The Rothko Chapel.
Marcela Olivera, Shannon Marquez, Ph.D., and Dennis S. Wales, MD, with Winifred J. Hamilton, Ph.D., SM, moderator.

Additional support for The Global Forum came from The George and Cynthia Mitchell Foundation; Houston Advanced Reasearch Center (HARC); Apache Corporation.

For further information contact projects@fotofest.org