WWD 2010\: Communicating water quality challenges and opportunities
Every year\, 1\,500 cubic kilometres of wastewater are produced globally. While waste and wastewater can be reused productively for energy and irrigation\, it usually is not. In developing countries 80 percent of all waste is being discharged untreated\, because of lack of regulations and resources. And population and industrial growth add new sources of pollution and increased demand for clean water tot the equation. Human and environmental health\, drinking and agricultural water supplies for the present and future are at stake\, still water pollution rarely warrants mention as a pressing issue.
To do something about that UN-Water has chosen Communicating Water Quality Challenges and Opportunities as theme for World Water Day 2010. The overall goal of the World Water Day on 22 March 2010 campaign is to raise the profile of water quality at the political level so that water quality considerations are made alongside those of water quantity.
UNEP has responsibility for taking the lead in 2010\, UN-Water announced at a session during the Stockholm World Water Week in August 2009 Keep an eye on their site (http\://www.unwater.org/).
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100319T035037Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100326T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100326T210000Z UID:http://www.saskrce.ca/content/turning-point-ecosocialism-or-barbarism-joel-kovel-lecture-regina URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.saskrce.ca/content/turning-point-ecosocialism-or-barbarism-joel-kovel-lecture-regina SUMMARY:\\"The Turning Point\: Ecosocialism or Barbarism\\" Joel Kovel Lecture (Regina) DESCRIPTION:Please see the attached poster for this event at the University of Regina.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100319T035037Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100331T013000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100331T013000Z UID:http://www.saskrce.ca/content/%E2%80%9C-wildness-resurrection-our-world-richard-manning-lecture-regina URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.saskrce.ca/content/%E2%80%9C-wildness-resurrection-our-world-richard-manning-lecture-regina SUMMARY:“In Wildness Is the Resurrection of Our World\\" Richard Manning Lecture (Regina) DESCRIPTION:The 2nd Annual Forward Together Lecture
Featuring renowned environmental journalist Richard Manning
“In Wildness Is the Resurrection of Our World\\"
Tuesday 30 \;March
7\:30 pm\, Education Auditorium\, University of Regina \;
\\"Six thousand years of agriculture have created ecological crisis throughout the world\, but nowhere is the story more dramatic than in the North American grassland. But here also\, nature has given us clear instructions as to how we must redesign agriculture and economy to resurrect the creative power of the plains. These instructions point the way not only to ecological restoration\, but also to revived economy and human well-being.\\"
Richard Manning has worked as a consultant on agriculture\, poverty and the environment to the McKnight Foundation\, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations\, and he has spent over thirty years as a journalist in Montana and Idaho. Manning has written numerous award-winning essays\, magazine articles and books\, and in 1995 he was the recipient of a John S Knight Fellowship from Stanford University. His recent books include Against the Grain\: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization (2004) and Rewilding the West\: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape (2009). Manning teaches at the University of Montana and resides near Missoula.
\;All are welcome\; free parking is available in lots 4\, 14 and 17 (designated \\"M\\" areas only)\; and a book sale and signing will follow the lecture. \; The lecture is presented by the presidents of Luther College\, Campion College\, First Nations University of Canada and the University of Regina. For further information contact Jennifer Arends at 306.585.5144 or \;communications@luthercollege.edu.
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