ecological
Each year, the Town Hall
Meeting assembles a group
of experts to discuss the
impact of globalization.
integrity
this year’s topic is:
The Global Water Crisis:
Issues and Answers
April 11, 2011
7:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.
The James and
Caroline Duff
Banquet Center at
the Cintas Center
Free and open to the
public. For more
information, please
call 513-745-3922.
Did you know that globally, the lack of clean
water is responsible for more deaths than any
other cause?
Did you know that every 20 seconds a child dies
of water-related disease?
Did you know that almost 1 billion people lack
access to clean drinking water and more than 2.5
billion lack access to water that meets minimum
sanitation standards?
Did you know that by 2025, the United Nations
estimates 48 nations with a combined population
of 2.5 billion will face severe freshwater scarcity?
About the event
it’s springtime in
cincinnati. It has
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Xavier University
Cincinnati, Ohio
of many other crises—
disease, famine, economic
probably rained too much development, ecological
degradation and more.
recently. It doesn’t feel
like there is a water crisis. If we can find ways to
address the water crisis,
Why should we care?
we will make significant
A growing number
inroads to solving many
of people consider the
other problems facing our
water crisis the greatest
crisis we face as a planet. communities and planet.
Join a panel of experts
All who study the subject who represent a diverse
acknowledge that it is
range of perspectives on
a foundational crisis,
the global water crisis.
meaning it is the basis
join in the discussion
of important questions:
What are the central issues?
How can we address them?
What is at stake for the
developed world, which does
not feel the crisis as acutely?
Should water be protected as
part of the global commons
or is it just another natural
resource?
Is the water crisis best
addressed through
governmental action or
market mechanisms?
program format
The Town Hall Meeting
format is interactive. After
brief opening statements,
the panelists are questioned
first by a moderator and
then by the audience. The
questions are formulated
to encourage the panelists
to engage each other in
dialogue and debate.
moderators
James P. Buchanan, PhD,
director, Brueggeman Center
for Dialogue
Margaret Weidner, senior
Brueggeman Fellow, studied
water issues in India
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About the panelists
greg allgood, phd
peter h. gleick, phd
menahem libhaber, phd
Director, Children’s Safe
Drinking Water; Senior Fellow
in Sustainability, Procter &
Gamble
Co-founder and president,
Pacific Institute, Oakland, Calif.
Sanitary/environmental
engineer, consultant to the
World Bank
Allgood leads Procter &
Gamble’s efforts to provide
safe drinking water in the
developing world. He has a
doctorate in toxicology from
North Carolina State University
and a master’s in public health
from the University of North
Carolina--Chapel Hill, where he
researched water. He won the
American Express Members
Project for his entry on safe
drinking water in 2007,
resulting in a $2 million grant to
UNICEF for safe drinking water
projects. In 2009, under
Allgood’s leadership, the
Children’s Safe Drinking Water
(CSDW) program received the
Humanitarian Award from
Action Against Hunger and
the Global Citizen Award from
U.S. Doctors for Africa. In
2007, CSDW received the Ron
Brown U.S. Presidential Award
for Corporate Citizenship, the
United Nations Association
Global Leadership Award, the
Grainger Challenge Bronze
Award for Sustainability and
the EPA Children’s Health
Excellence Award.
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Gleick is an internationally
recognized water expert. His
work addresses the critical
connections between water
and human health, the human
right to water, the hydrologic
impacts of climate change,
sustainable water use, privatization and globalization, and
international conflicts over
water resources.
He is the recipient of numerous
awards for his work, among
them the prestigious MacArthur
“genius” Fellowship in 2003.
He is a member of the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences,
was named “a visionary on
the environment” by the BBC
and was identified as “one of
15 people the next President
should listen to” by Wired
Magazine. He received the
2009 Region 9 Environmental
Excellence Award from the
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency and the Csallany Award
from the American Water
Resources Association for
exemplary contributions to
water resources.
Libhaber specializes in water
and wastewater. From 1991 to
2009 he served as the lead
water and sanitation engineer
in the World Bank’s Sustainable
Development Department
for Latin America and the
Caribbean. He was in charge of,
or involved in, all stages of
project planning and
implementation, including:
country-wide and regional
sector studies, master plans,
feasibility studies, general
planning, design, supervision
of construction, operation and
maintenance, rehabilitation,
research, financing,
institutional development, and
private sector participation in
the provision of water supply
and sewerage services.
Libhaber has 36 years of
international experience in a
variety of water and wastewater
projects. He has spent 26 years
outside his native Israel, and
eight years in developing
countries, mostly in Latin
America.
On the Waterfront—Living Cities, Water and
Expanded Art Practice
Sunday, April 10, 7:00 p.m. | Cintas Center Banquet Center
Jackie Brookner creates water remediation systems for wetlands,
rivers and stormwater runoff that are public works of art. Her
evocative, plant-based biosculptures clean polluted water while
retaining the metaphor and aesthetics of sculpture. Her recent
work, “Laughing Brook” in Cincinnati’s Salway Park, is part of the
Millcreek Restoration Project. Brookner co-authored Urban Rain:
Stormwater as Resource and taught at Harvard University.
Co-sponsored by the Xavier University Department of Art
Today’s complex issues demand that we move
beyond isolated positions toward collaborative
solutions that can only be found through dialogue.
By listening to and understanding each other’s
points of view, we can arrive at the commonalities
from which lasting resolutions might grow.
The Town Hall Meeting provides a public forum
for interactive discussion, allowing for diverse
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perspectives to be heard on vital issues of our
of agreement and opportunities for answers.
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day in the hope that we might identify areas
Learn for yourself.
event co-sponsors
The Edward B. Brueggeman
Center for Dialogue
Xavier University
Ethics/Religion and Society
Program
Xavier University
Office of Interfaith Community
Engagement
Xavier University
Sustainability Committee
Xavier University
American Jewish Committee
Global Center of Greater Cincinnati
Southern Ohio Export Council
Cintas Institute for Business Ethics
at Xavier University
The Edward B. Brueggeman
Center for Dialogue
3800 Victory Parkway
Cincinnati, Ohio 45207-7111
Be part of the dialogue.
April 11 | Cintas Center
The Global Water Crisis:
Issues and Answers