Water Institute RBC Distinguished Lectures

The Water Institute's RBC Distinguished Lecture series is generously supported by the RBC Foundation.

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Previous Water Institute RBC Distinguished Lectures

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson in Conversation with Dan Riskin: Healing our Oceans, our Climate, and our Injustices.

Dianne Saxe: How to inform policy with science

Bob Rae: What the challenge of clean water at home and around the world tells us about ourselves, our country, and our planet.

Mark van Loosdrecht: The Future of Water: Innovation, Resource Recovery, and the Blue Economy, 2018 

Quentin Grafton: Innovation, Incentives and Infrastructure in the Blue Economy, 2017

Jay Famiglietti: Water and Sustainability: 21st Century Realities and the Global Groundwater Crisis, 2016

Sunita Narain: Challenges for Water Security in the Poor's World: the agenda for research and policy to manage water scarcity, plenty, pollution and waste in an age of climate risk, 2015.

Peter H. Gleick, The Past, Present and Future of the World's Water, 2014

Asit K. Biswas: Future of World's Water: Rhetoric and Reality?, 2013

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