Who Gets To Drink? The history and future of drinking water

Lunch served starting at 12:15p - please RSVP to gogreen@middlebury.edu
 
Jim Salzman, Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law, UCLA Law School and the UC, Santa Barbara, School of Environment, will discuss how conflicts over drinking water highlight the most pressing issues of our time — from social justice and globalization to climate change and emerging contaminants. Ensuring provision of safe drinking water has always been one of society’s most important challenges and remains highly controversial around the globe. The United Nations has declared a Human Right to Water but what does that really mean? Who gets to drink in times of scarcity? How can access to clean water be provided in developing countries, and what could this mean for girls and women, who are primarily responsible for water gathering? And what is the role of corporations in all of this, are they part of the problem or the solution?

Cosponsored by Franklin Environmental Center, Program in Environmental Studies, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, and Global Health Program