Thursday, January 22

Thursday, January 22

Thursday, January 22 Presentation: Shopping for Water: How the Market Can Mitigate Water Shortages in the American West Speaker: Robert Glennon, Regents’ Professor and Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy in the Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona Time: 12 – 1:30 p.m. Location: WRRC Sol Resnick Conference Room (350 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson, AZ) Robert Glennon will discuss his recent report, coauthored by Peter Culp and Gary Libecap, Shopping for Water: How the Market Can Mitigate Water Shortages in the American West, published by the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution in 2014. Shopping for Water explores the American West’s long tradition of conflict over water and how using market forces to facilitate the movement of water resources and to mitigate the risk of water shortages could contribute to a lasting solution. Click here for a free downloadable copy of Shopping for Water Click here to view the Shopping for Water Abstract Click here to view an op-ed published by Robert Glennon and Gary Libecap in the Wall Street Journal Glennon is the author of the highly-acclaimed Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America’s Fresh Waters (Island Press, 2002). His latest book, Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It, was published in 2009. Unquenchable received a Rachel Carson Book Award for Reporting on the Environment from the Society of Environmental Journalists. Glennon’s other writings include pieces in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Bloomberg Businessweek, the Arizona Republic, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. He has been a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Talk of the Nation with Neal Conan, The Diane Rehm Show, C-SPAN2’s Book TV, and numerous National Public Radio shows. He has been a commentator for American Public Media’s Marketplace. He is featured in the recent documentary, Last Call at the Oasis. Glennon has received two National Science Foundation grants and has served as an advisor to governments, law firms, corporations, and NGOs on water law and policy. He is also a regular commentator and analyst for various television and radio programs and for the print media. Remote Attendance via GoToWebinar: The WRRC now offers remote access to Brown Bag Seminars via GoToWebinar. For details on joining this Brown Bag remotely (10 minutes prior to the event, to allow download time), visit https://wrrc.arizona.edu/node/13161. Offsite attendees will have audio and visual access to the Brown Bag presentation, but will not be able to interact with the speaker or other attendees. .

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