The World’s Water Volume 7: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources

Please join the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program for the book launch of

The World’s Water Volume 7: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources

featuring

Peter Gleick, Co-founder and President, Pacific Institute; MacArther “Genius” Fellow

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

6th Floor Flom Auditorium

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20004 USA

Webcast live at www.wilsoncenter.org

Please RSVP to ecsp@wilsoncenter.org with your name and affiliation.

In The World’s Water, MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Peter Gleick and his colleagues find that more and more regions of the world, including the United States, may be reaching the point of “peak water.” To conserve this critical resource without harming the economy or public health, businesses, communities, governments, and individuals are looking for new techniques to move to sustainable water management.

The seventh edition of this biennial report tackles a diverse set of cutting edge issues. Gleick will address several key topics: 

•             Reform of U.S. water policy, including implementation of economic approaches, decentralized decision-making, and greater stakeholder participation;

•             Impacts of climate change on transboundary water resources and agreements;

•             The effects of fossil fuel production on water quality;

•             Regional and worldwide impacts of China’s policy on dam building; and

•             The lessons of Australia’s prolonged and severe drought.

Copies of the World’s Water, published by Island Press, will be available for purchase at the meeting.

Location: Woodrow Wilson Center at the Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW ("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line), 6th Floor Flom Auditorium. A map to the Center is available at www.wilsoncenter.org/directions. Note: picture ID is required to pass through security.