Register Now: IWRA's World Water Day webinars - 22 March❗
3 years ago
Invitation - World Water Day Webinars Future Gazing: Groundwater Action as Climate Action 22 March - 08:00 and 16:00 (CET)
Groundwater resource management is closely linked to climate change impacts and is important for resilience. This year's World Water Day (WWD) webinars aim to enable global citizens to ‘see’ groundwater and take a personal view, stance and action.
The speakers will explore challenges, tipping points and triggers for groundwater resource management, and how creativity and innovation offer possibilities and opportunities for the next generations of groundwater resource professionals.
Focus of the IWRA WWD Webinars:
Each of the two webinars will follow the same format, but will involve different sets of speakers. The webinars will be interactive – in that speakers will be asked a series of questions to strike a conversation about the future of groundwater, thinking to 2050 and beyond.
The speakers will envision scenarios that include the potential outcomes if groundwater is not managed sustainably as well as what the world might look like if groundwater is made visible. Moreover, speakers will be asked to either envision worst case and innovative cases either as it relates to a specific geographic area, a specific sector (e.g., food, energy, ecosystems), or a specific aspect of groundwater (supply, quality, measuring & evaluating, legal/institutional, etc).
WEBINAR 1:
Speakers
Yuanyuan Li Vice President, General Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Planning and Design, Ministry of Water Resources of China, and IWRA President
Kevin Piertersen
Research Fellow, Institute for Water Studies, University of the Western Cape; Fellow, Geological Society, and Senior Fellow, Water Institute of Southern Africa; Co-chair of the International Association of Hydrogeologist (IAH) Transboundary Aquifer Commission
Claudia Ruz Vargas Researcher, International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre (IGRAC)
Luciana Scrinzi Groundwater Resources Specialist, UNESCO – IHP
Jane Seymour Award-winning British-American actress, author and entrepreneur
Moderators: Robert M Kalin, Professor, University of Strathclyde, Scotland Raya Marina Stephan, Water Law Expert, Consultant, and Deputy Editor in Chief, Water International, IWRA
Luiz Amore Project Manager, Environment and Water Resources
John Cherry 2020 Stockholm Water Prize Winner, Stockholm International Water Institute, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Viviana Re Associate Professor, Socio-hydrogeology, and Groundwater, University of Pisa
Rosario Sanchez Senior Research Scientist, Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI); and, Co-chair, Transboundary Aquifers Commission of the International Association of Hydrogeologists.
Jane Seymour Award-winning British-American actress, author and entrepreneur
Moderators:
Amy Hardberger, Texas Tech University Robert M. Kalin, Professor, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
Participation is free and open to all. Questions from the audience are encouraged.
We look forward to your participation and a fruitful debate!
IWRA historically hosts two Webinars on World Water Day. These are timed to allow members in Oceana / Asia, and Europe / N America to take part. This year a working group of the IWRA Groundwater Task Force (GWTF) met and agreed on the topic for the WWD 2022 webinars.
UNESCO is the coordinator, with its centre IGRAC, of the World Water Day 2022 campaign “Groundwater: making the invisible visible”. The campaign will remain active all year and will culminate with the UN-Water Summit on Groundwater (Paris, UNESCO HQ, 6-8 December 2022).
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