Celebrate Water Awareness Week at UTM

January 26, 2010 on 12:49 am | In Events, Environment |

We have teamed up with the UTM Green Team (Facebook Link) and the Ministry of Environment to bring two more engaging events to the UTM community as part of Water Awareness Week 2010.

1. Public Lecture
“Freshwater - Challenges Facing Mexico in the 21st Century”
Dr. Harvey Shear

Thursday, February 11, 2010
11:45 am
North Building, Room 134
Free Admission

Water Awareness Week>

Mexico presently has an uneven distribution of freshwater across time and
space. Per capita water availability has been declining since 1900 and is
predicted to become worse due to climate change and population growth.

This talk by Dr. Harvey Shear will explore some of the major freshwater issues facing Mexico in the 21st Century, and will include a case study of a small lake in western Mexico.

2. Documentary Screening
“Flow: For The Love of Water” (2008)
Irena Salina

Thursday, February 11, 2010
3-5 pm
Student Centre, Presentation Room
Free Admission

Water Awareness Week

Join the Green Team as well as the co-hosts Mississauga Freethought Association for a viewing and discussion of Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.

Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.

Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question "CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?"

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