Southern California World Water Forum to Tackle Water Issues
October 6, 2011
By EON: Enhanced Online News
LOS ANGELES--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Students and professors from more than 40 community colleges and universities throughout Southern California will help launch an 18-month competitive grant program Friday (Oct. 7) aimed at addressing regional and global water issues.
The third Southern California World Water Forum kicks off with a one-day workshop at Metropolitan Water District’s headquarters in downtown Los Angeles, beginning at 10 a.m.
The Southern California World Water Forum will award grants to as many as 17 college teams to research, develop and communicate water-use efficiency technology, policy research and communications strategies that can be employed cost-effectively in water-stressed regions, locally, regionally or internationally. Grant proposals are due to Metropolitan by Dec. 9.
“This program is an opportunity for our next generation of exceptional young thinkers to address the water problems of today and prepare for the water challenges of tomorrow,” said U.S. Rep. Grace F. Napolitano (D-Norwalk), honorary chairperson of the Southern California World Water Forum. “I applaud all the sponsoring agencies for showing our students how to use the latest scientific findings to provide our communities with clean and reliable water.”
Program co-sponsors include Metropolitan; federal Bureau of Reclamation; the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County; Friends of the United Nations; and Water For People.
Speakers during Friday’s event include Timothy F. Brick, Metropolitan board member representing the city of Pasadena and former MWD board chairman; William Steele, Reclamation’s area manager for the Lower Colorado River Region; Anthony Fellow, a member of Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District’s Board of Directors and former Metropolitan director; John C. Leddy, special representative to the Friends of the United Nations; and Uzi Daniels, chair of the California-Nevada American Water Works Association chapter of Water For People.
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