WaterWays Conference

Students and the community can come out and listen to different speakers about the concerns on water issues today.
WaterWays is the second biennial water conference at the University of North Texas and will be held March 13-15 at the Environmental Science Building. Speakers will include Robert F. Kennedy Jr.(Riverkeeper Organization), John A. McLachlan (Director of RiverSphere), Ramaswamy R. Iyer (former Secretary of Water, Govt. of India and the Katrina Environmental Research & Restoration Network), and others. The conference is free of charge to students and the community.
WaterWays is organized by the Philosophy of Water Project and other departments, and brings together scientists, artists, and philosophers to learn about water issues around boundaries. The focus of the conference is to raise awareness to water basin issues, specifically Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin.
The Philosophy of Water provide issues about the rising tide water-problems. This would include quality of water, water-scarcity, and the importance of reserves.