Water Matters! is a daylong global conference that promises to raise awareness and appreciation of this life affirming source. If you walked away from the Women's Health & Environment Conference much the wiser, this one's for you too.
"We feel like a Nova or PBS special. This is great information for the public at large," says Court Gould of Sustainable Pittsburgh, one of the organizers of
World Environment Day 2010. "This is strategic timing for the Pittsburgh region, which is just awakening to how critically important water is to emerging industries in the region and the world."
The conference is the centerpiece of WED, a celebration that taking off around the city with dozens of
events and activities. As the United Nation's pick as North America's host city, Pittsburgh has a front row seat for great national speakers such as the founder of the biodiversity movement,
E.O. Wilson, who will present a half-day symposium on May 27th at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, sponsored by the
Rachel Carson Homestead.
Water Matters! will touch on several areas of interest, water and health, water and energy and water as an economic driver. More than a dozen panelists and speakers will attend including:
Blue Ocean Institute's Carl Safina, an award-winning author who writes passionately about the threat to our waters and the scientific, moral and social dimensions of our relationship with nature; Mike McGee of
healthy-waters.org and John Cronin of The Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries.
The day begins at 8 a.m. at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center and costs $25, which includes hands-on activities and displays, lunch and an after conference reception.
Registration is required.
Writer:
Deb SmitSource: Court Gould, Sustainable Pittsburgh
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