“Water for All: Global Solutions for a Changing Climate”
Date: Monday, October 28, 2024
Time: 4:15 P.M. EST
Location: STEPS 101
Professor David Sedlak, Ph.D., NAE
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of California at Berkeley
Abstract
As the cumulative effects of population pressure, increasing wealth and a changing climate intersect with water policies and investments that fail to consider impacts on human health and the natural environment, the world will experience more severe water crises in the coming decades. To provide transformative solutions that are likely to be adopted, research and development is needed that employs the latest technologies, embraces systems-level thinking and considers the way in which new technologies diffuse into practice. The successful development and deployment of such approaches will require collaborations among scientists, engineers and policy experts to connect fundamental research with actions that will alter the way that the world obtains, treats and uses water. The speaker will illustrate this approach by using drawing upon examples from among the six global water crises and emerging technologies that have the potential to solve them.
About Dr. David Sedlak
Dr. David Sedlak is the Plato Malozemoff Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Director of the Berkeley Water Center at UC Berkeley. Dr. Sedlak is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, chair of its Water Science & Technology Board and recipient of numerous awards including the Paul Busch Award for Innovation in Applied Water Quality Research and the Clarke Prize for Excellence in Water Research. He is also the author of “Water 4.0: The Past, Present and Future of the World’s Most Vital Resource” and “Water for All: Global Solutions for a Changing Climate.”
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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