CONFERENCE AGENDA

Johanna Watzinger-Tharp, Associate Dean, College of OFFICERS’ CLUB, FORT DOUGLAS PANELISTS: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23 Humanities and Director of International Studies, The CLEAN WATER AND COMMUNITIES: RIGHTS AND 2:15 - 4:00 PM University of Utah RESPONSIBILITIES - Robert Adler, Professor, S. J. OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS - THE GLOBAL MODERATOR: Ed Barbanell, The University of Utah Quinney College of Law, The University of Utah WATER CRISIS AND THE COMING BATTLE FOR PANEL I - WATER DEMAND: POPULATION PANELISTS: RIVER RESTORATION IN THE U. S. - Daniel McCool, THE RIGHT TO WATER GROWTH, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND STRUGGLES FOR WATER JUSTICE IN LATIN Professor and Director, Environmental Studies, UTAH MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS IN THE ENERGY AMERICA: ALTERNATIVES TO PRIVATIZATION - University of Utah MARCIA AND JOHN PRICE MUSEUM BUILDING OFFICERS’ CLUB, FORT DOUGLAS Susan Spronk, Assistant Professor, School of RESTORING CLEAN WATER IN WETLANDS AND DUMKE AUDITORIUM International Development and Global Studies, WATERSHEDS - Joy Zedler, Professor, Botany, 9:15 – 10:45 AM University of Ottawa, Canada 7:00 – 8:15 PM University of Wisconsin MODERATOR: Steven Burian, The University of Utah BALANCING THE GRADIENT: USING GRASSROOTS MAUDE BARLOW PROTECTING AND RESTORING OUR WATERS WHEN ORGANIZING, PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND LEGAL National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, PANELISTS: IT’S MUCH EASIER TO DO OTHERWISE - Walter Baker, STRATEGIES TO ENSURE THAT INTERBASIN WATER Founder of the Blue Planet Project WATER DEMAND FOR THE WORLD’S LARGEST Director, Division of Water Quality, Utah Department of WATER USER - Zach Frankel, Founder and Executive TRANSFERS DO NOT DESTROY ENVIRONMENTAL Environmental Quality OPENING & WELCOME: Director, Utah Rivers Council AND CULTURAL RIGHTS TO WATER IN THE RURAL M. David Rudd, Dean, The College of Social and WEST - Simeon Herskovits, Director and Chief DISCUSSION WITH Q & A Behavioral Science, The University of Utah RISK, PERCEPTION, PRECAUTION AND THE CLIMATE- Counsel, Advocates for Community and Environment WATER NEXUS - Anya Plutynski, Associate Professor, BREAK 11:05 - 11:20 AM INTRODUCTION: Philosophy, The University of Utah CONSTRUCTING THE ‘PUBLIC’ OF PUBLIC GOODS: Sylvia Torti, Manager, Rio Mesa Center and Research THE ROLE OF ORGANIZING PRINCIPLES - LaDawn Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, The WATER: PLAN, CONSERVE, DEVELOP AND PROTECT - Haglund, Assistant Professor, Justice and Social PANEL IV - CASE STUDIES: University of Utah Dennis Strong, Director, Utah Division of Inquiry, Arizona State University STAKEHOLDER MEDIATION, DIALOGUE AND LESSONS LEARNED DISCUSSION WITH Q & A DISCUSSION WITH Q & A RECEPTION 8:15 – 9:30 PM OFFICERS’ CLUB, FORT DOUGLAS The reception will include exhibits by the following KEYNOTE LECTURE - THE WATER CRISIS, NEW CLOSING REMARKS: 11:20 AM – 1:05 PM presenters: SOLUTIONS, AND THE ROLE OF THE HUMAN Johanna Watzinger-Tharp, Associate Dean, College of RIGHT TO WATER MODERATOR: Deborah Callister, The University of Utah The Salt Lake Arts Academy Humanities and Director of International Studies, The www.saltlakeartsacademy.org/aboutus/aboutus.htm S. J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW, MOOT COURTROOM University Of Utah PANELISTS: BETTER RED THAN DEAD? CONFLICT OR Visual Arts Institute 12:15 - 1:30 PM COOPERATION IN THE DEAD SEA BASIN - Joseph www.visualartinstitute.org PETER GLEICK FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25 Dellapenna, Professor of Law, Villanova University The Mundi Project Co-Founder & President, Pacific Institute for Studies in WELCOME AND RECAP POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF REDUCED GROUNDWATER www.mundiproject.org Development, Environment and Security FROM THE WATER AQUIFER UNDER THE GOSHUTE West High School Senior I.B. Science Project on Water OFFICERS’ CLUB, FORT DOUGLAS WELCOME: INDIAN RESERVATION - Madeline Greymountain, http://west.slcshools.org/academics/ib/IBindex.htm Hiram Chodosh, Dean, S. J. Quinney College of Law, The 9:00 - 9:15 AM Member, Confederated Tribes of Goshute Reservations University of Utah Thomas Maloney, Director, The Barbara L. & Norman WHAT WOULD ELVIS SAY? MISSISSIPPI V. MEMPHIS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24 INTRODUCTION: C. Tanner Center for Nonviolent Human Rights AND THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE MEMPHIS SAND Robert Adler, Professor, S. J. Quinney College of Law, Advocacy, The University of Utah AQUIFER - Michael Campana, Professor, Hydrogeology WELCOME AND PRELIMINARIES The University of Utah and Water Resources, Oregon State University PANEL III - WATER QUALITY, ECOSYSTEMS OFFICERS’ CLUB, FORT DOUGLAS BREAK 1:30 - 2:00 PM AND THEIR RESTORATION, COMMUNITY DISCUSSION WITH Q & A 9:00 – 9:15 AM WELL-BEING AND PUBLIC HEALTH PANEL II - WATER PRIVATIZATION: INTER- CLOSING REMARKS: Thomas Maloney, Director, The Barbara L. & Norman Thomas Maloney, Director, The Barbara L. & Norman BASIN WATER TRANSFERS, DEMOCRACY AND OFFICERS’ CLUB, FORT DOUGLAS C. Tanner Center for Nonviolent Human Rights C. Tanner Center for Nonviolent Human Rights Advocacy, The University of Utah HUMAN RIGHTS 9:15 - 11:05 AM Advocacy, The University of Utah MODERATOR: Ted Wilson, Utah Governor’s Office BARBARA L. AND NORMAN C. TANNER BARBARA L. & NORMAN C. TANNER PETER GLEICK MAUDE BARLOW CENTER FOR CENTER FOR NONVIOLENT HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY CO-FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, PACIFIC NONVIOLENT HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY NATIONAL CHAIRPERSON OF THE COUNCIL INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN DEVELOPMENT, OF CANADIANS, FOUNDER OF THE BLUE PARTNERS PRESENTS THE ENVIRONMENT AND SECURITY PLANET PROJECT

KEYNOTE SPEAKER KEYNOTE SPEAKER Dr. Peter H. Gleick is co-founder and Fifth Annual Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson president of the Pacific Institute for Studies International of the Council of Canadians and chairs the in Development, Environment, and Security board of Washington-based Food and Water SPONSORS Conference on in Oakland, California. His research and Watch. She is also an executive member Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center, writing address the critical connections The University of Utah Human of the San Francisco–based International between water and human health, the American West Center, The University of Utah Forum on Globalization and a Councillor hydrologic impacts of , Office of the Vice President for Research, Rights, with the Hamburg-based World Future The University of Utah sustainable water use, privatization and Council. Maude is the recipient of ten Pax Natura Foundation Conflict globalization, and international conflicts Rio Mesa Center, The University of Utah honorary doctorates as well as many awards, over water resources. CO-SPONSORS Resolution, including the 2005 Right Livelihood Award Dr. Gleick is an internationally recognized American Water Resource Association Nonviolence (known as the “Alternative Nobel”), the Central Utah Water Conservancy District Citation of Lifetime Achievement at the water expert and was named a MacArthur CH2M Hill & Peace 2008 Canadian Environment Award, and Fellow in October 2003 for his work. In Clyde Snow Attorneys at Law 2001, Gleick was dubbed a “visionary on the Department of Biology, The University of Utah the 2009 Earth Day Canada Outstanding Department of Communication, The University of Utah environment” by the British Broadcasting Environmental Achievement Award. In Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Corporation. In 1999, Gleick was elected The University of Utah 2008/2009, she served as Senior Advisor on an Academician of the International Water Department of Philosophy, The University of Utah Water to the 63rd President of the United Department of Sociology, The University of Utah WATER, CONFLICT AND Academy, in Oslo, Norway and in 2006, he Nations General Assembly. She is also the Environmental Humanities Graduate Program, The University of Utah best selling author or co-author of 16 books, was elected to the National Academy of Environmental Studies Program, The University of Utah HUMAN RIGHTS: Sciences, Washington, D.C. Global Change and Ecosystem Center, The University of Utah including the international best seller Blue Great Basin Water Network Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and The Gleick received a B.S. from Emerging Challenges International Studies Program, The University of Utah Coming Battle for the Right to Water. and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Latin American Studies Program, The University of Utah and Solutions California, Berkeley. He serves on the boards Loughlin Water Associates, LLC Conservancy of numerous journals and organizations, Office of Sustainability, The University of Utah February 23 – 25, 2011 and is the author of many scientific papers Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Utah and seven books, including the biennial The University of Utah water report, The World’s Water, and the new Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our 260 S. Central Campus Drive, Room 205 Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9150 Obsession with Bottled Water. Phone: 801-581-6751 Fax: 801-585-5081 E-mail: [email protected] www.humanrights.utah.edu