INC NEWS - Town meeting on water and drought -- Jan 8

[Pat Carstensen]

“Will the Water Run Out?”
 

The Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University will host “Will the Water Run Out?,” a public town hall meeting on water conservation and the drought.
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Sarah P. Duke Gardens Visitor Center
418 Anderson Street

The meeting, open to all members of the Durham and Duke communities, will focus on identifying short-term and long-term water conservation practices and policies that can be implemented if the drought continues and the city’s water supply runs low or runs out.

Where do we turn? What can we do? How is the drought affected by a warming climate? And what does the future hold for Durham, the Triangle and our state? These are some of the questions we’ll address,” says event co-chair Avner Vengosh, associate professor of earth and ocean sciences at the Nicholas School. 

A panel of experts from Duke, the City of Durham, the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Triangle J Council of Governments and the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will make brief presentations and field questions from the audience.  
In addition to Vengosh, panelists and participants will include:
    Jerad Bales, director, USGS Water Science Center, Raleigh;
    Melinda Chapman, ground water specialist, USGS Water Science Center, Raleigh;
    Kemel Dawkins, vice president for campus services, Duke University;
    Bill Holman, senior visiting fellow, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University;
    Robert B. Jackson, Nicholas Professor of Global Environmental Change and professor of biology, Duke University;
    Sydney Miller, water resources program manager, Triangle J Council of Governments;
    Rick Bolich, NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

William L. Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School, will serve as moderator. Additional panelists and participants will be announced soon.

Parking will be available at the Duke Gardens Visitor Center. The center is located off Anderson Street between Erwin Road and Campus Drive, at the main entrance to Duke Gardens.

The event will be videotaped and available for viewing online at www.nicholas.duke.edu soon after. 
Parking will be available at the Duke Gardens Visitor Center. The center is located off Anderson Street between Erwin Road and Campus Drive, at the main entrance to Duke Gardens.
For more information, contact Nancy Kelly at (919) 613-8090 or dukenvironment at nicholas.duke.edu.
 


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