"Storing Waters for a Dry Day Leads to Suits"
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/science/earth/27waterbank.html?_r=2&emc=eta1
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill - Capped!
View live feed of the capped Gulf of Mexico BP oil rig. For the first time since April of 2010, there is no oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico. BP has placed a temporary 48-hour cap on the source of the oil leak. A permanent fix is set to occur in mid-August in which BP will drill two relief wells to pump mud and cement into the well. During the next two days, pressure gauges will be monitored and the well will be observed for signs of leaks. See the full story at CNN.com. WHO/WSH will shortly announce its programme activities during Stockholm World Water Week 2010 taking place from 5 to 9 September 2010. An initial step toward this end is to provide $25,000 of seed funding supported through the Office of Provost, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Whiting School of Engineering. The GWP is now accepting proposals for research projects on the thematic area of "Water and Health." The deadline for submitting a complete proposal application is February 1st, 2010. Additional information about the initial seed program is provided in the attached PDF. To learn more about the GWP and/or the seed-grant program, contact our Director Kellogg Schwab kschwab@jhsph.edu, Associate Director Bill Ball bball@jhu.edu, or Program Manager, Luke MacDonald, lmacdona@jhsph.edu. The GWP will foster such collaboration by bringing together researchers and students throughout all Johns Hopkins affiliated institutions around the six themes of i) Water and Health, ii)Water and Food, iii) Water and Ecology, iv) Water and Energy, v) Water Policy, and vi) Water Infrastructure.
Symposium: "Water and Health: Global Issues and Our Shared Responsibilities."
Drs. Kellogg Schwab and Peter Agre of JHSPH recently participated in The New York Academy of Sciences' Academy Webinar, "Water and Health: Global Issues and Our Shared Responsibilities."
From the Website:
"During his presidential campaign, then Senator Barack Obama was frequently heard to exclaim that "water is one of the grand challenges facing the 21st century." Since his election President Obama has highlighted several aspects of this pressing issue, including universal access to clean water, the increasingly complex politics of water, and the crumbling water infrastructure which poses threats in even the most economically developed nations. None of this is news to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and its legion of researchers who have been actively engaged in water science since the early 20th century when Abel Wolman pioneered the chlorinating process for public water supplies. To echo President Obama's call to action, and to publicize the challenges posed, the Bloomberg School held a symposium on water on Friday, November 13, at the New York Academy of Sciences."
Please click here to visit the website and watch the symposium.
Press release from Dean Jessica Einhorn about the Year of the Water and why the theme was selected.
Latest Year of Water Events at SAIS, and the electronic version of SAISphere magazine, dedicated to the subject.
Global Water Program Special Seminar
"Glittering Bathrooms that Fit Your Pocket": Assessing Sanitation Demand and Supply in Low-Income Settings"
Christine L. Moe, PhD
Eugene J. Gangarosa Professor of Safe Water and Sanitation
Director, Center for Global Safe Water at Emory
Friday, September 23, 2011, 12:00 noon - 1:15 pm
Wolfe Street Building, Room W3008
JHSPH World Water Week 2011!
Global Water Program Seminar
"The Power, Promise, and Turmoil--Water Challenges in South Asia"
Winston Yu, Ph.D., World Bank, Senior Water Resources Specialist
Tuesday, March 29, 4:30-5:30 pm, Feinstone Hall. Food will be provided.
JHU Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering (DoGEE) presents:
M. Gordon Wolman Seminar Series
"Hydrodynamics, morphodynamics, and oil slick dynamics on the Mississippi Delta"
Dr. Federico Falcini, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth and Environmental Science
Thursday, March 10, 2011, 12:00 pm, Ames 234.
JHU Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering (DoGEE) presents:
M. Gordon Wolman Seminar Series
"Interpreting fluxes from hydrochemically diverse catchments"
Dr. Sarah Godsey, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 3:00 pm, Ames 234.
Seminar Sponsored jointly - JHU Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering (DoGEE) and the JHU Global Water Initiative present:
"Aqua-Clara: The Design and Development of Sustainable Gravity-Fed Community Water Treatment Systems in Honduras"
Speaker: Monroe Weber-Shirk, Research Associate, Cornell University
Thursday, February 24, 2011, 12:00 noon, Ames 234, Homewood Campus, JHU JHU Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering (DoGEE) presents:
M. Gordon Wolman Seminar Series
"Ecogeomorphic feedbacks between wetlands, climate change, and people"
Dr. Matthew Kirwan, US Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences
Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 3:00 pm, Ames 234, Homewood Campus, JHU JHU Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering (DoGEE) presents:
M. Gordon Wolman Seminar Series
"Flooding and flow path selection on allulvial fans and deltas"
Dr. Douglas J. Jerolmack, DoGEE
Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 3:00 pm, Ames 234.
For more information, click here. Water and Health: Where Science Meets Policy
The Water Institute and the institute for the Environment of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host the international conference Water and Health: Where Science Meets Policy in Chapel Hill, NC on October 25-26, 2010. For registration information, click here.
Invitation! Networking Event! - Universities and Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene: Linking Research and Policy
The University Consortium on Global Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) is hosting a networking event as part of the UNC conference "Water and Health: Where Science Meets Policy" on Sunday, October 24, 2010. For more information, click here.
Wade Miller Visit to Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health - EHS Seminar Series entitled, "Water Reuse and Desalination: Current Status and Forecast for the Future" - April 14, 2010
Wade Miller, Executive Director of the WateReuse Foundation, which is the largest funder of water reuse and desalination research in the US. Wade is a key figure in one of the fastest growing sectors in the world of alternative water supplies. The High-Level Conference on Water and Global Health at the United Nations
April 8-9, 2010, Dr. Kellogg Schwab, Panel Presenter
United Nations Headquarters, New York City
Click here for more information on this event and registration information Dr. Kellogg Schwab at 2010 AAAS Annual Meeting
Kellogg Schwab was a topical speaker at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2010 Annual Meeting, held on February 18-22 in San Diego, CA. Dr. Schwab spoke on the topic of Improving Access to Potable Water Throughout The World. For more information on this meeting, click here. To access Dr. Schwab's 90-second podcast from the meeting, click here. 2010 Stockholm Water Prize
The 2010 Stockholm Water Prize laureate is Dr. Rita Colwell, distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland and Bloomberg School of Public Health of Johns Hopkins University. She has performed pioneering research on the prevention of waterborne infectious diseases and made exceptional contributions to the prevention and control of cholera. Her work has established the basis for environmental and infectious disease risk assessment. Read more at: http://www.siwi.org/SWP2010. |