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.

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Dianne Saxe: How to inform policy with science

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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