2014 distinguished lecture

The Past, Present and Future of the World's Water

Dr. Peter H. Gleick.
Dr. Peter H. Gleick
President and Co-founder, Pacific Institute
Oakland, California, U.S.A

May 1, 2014
4:00 p.m.
Mathematics 3, room 1006
University of Waterloo

Dr. Gleick’s lecture, the “The Past, Present and Future of the World's Water”, will review the three "Ages" in water, from early use through the industrial revolution, to what Dr. Gleick considers the ongoing transition to a sustainable water future. Dr. Gleick will discuss the core of our current challenges, including climate change, energy, agriculture, and ecosystems, and his vision of a sustainable future. The lecture will be broad in scope, but include specific solutions.

Event Parking

If you are driving to the event, we recommend parking in lot N or lot W where the $5 payment can be made with coins or credit card at the blue pay-and-display ticket machines. A map of visitor parking lots can be found online.

Biography

Dr. Peter Gleick is a leading scientist, innovator, and communicator on global water and climate issues. Gleick received the prestigious MacArthur “genius” Fellowship in 2003 and has been named “a visionary on the environment” by the BBC. He was elected in 2006 to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He co-founded and leads the Pacific Institute in Oakland, one of the most innovative, independent non-governmental organizations addressing the connections between the environment and global sustainability. He is the author of many scientific papers and ten books, including the influential series The World's Water and Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water from Island Press, as well as A Twenty-First Century U.S. Water Policy, released in 2012. He is a graduate of Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley, where he received an MS and a PhD.