Register now for early bird rates - OU International Water Conference

To get early bird rates, register for the Conference by July 29!

The theme of this year's International WaTER Conference is "Quest for Water Security: Quantity, Quality and Equity". Invited speakers and 70-80 presentations will tackle the many water challenges that are shared by both developed and developing nations.

Recent flooding in Mozambique and in Nebraska, USA (March 2019), are painful reminders of shared vulnerabilities around water in a changing climate.

The sixth biennial OU International Water Conference will feature a diverse group of keynote speakers. 

Soroosh Sorooshian is a Distinguished Professor at UC-Irvine whose work encompasses many aspects of hydrometeorology, water resources systems, climate studies and application of remote sensing to earth science problems. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

Jenna Davis of is co-founder and faculty lead of the Water, Health & Development program at Stanford University. Her research and teaching is focused at the interface of engineered water supply and sanitation systems and their users, particularly in developing countries. She has conducted field research in more than 20 countries, including most recently Zambia, Bangladesh, and Uganda.

John Butterworth of IRC will be speaking about self-supply of water and sanitation. He will also co-chair a session that is concerned with broader WASH systems, functionality, and monitoring.

Leila Harris is Professor at the Institute for Resources Environment and Sustainability (IRES) and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ) at the University of British Columbia. Her current research focuses on the intersection of environmental issues and inequality / social difference, and water governance challenges in Canadian First Nations, Cape Town, South Africa and Accra, Ghana. 

John Cherry is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada and co-author of the classic book, Groundwater, with Alan Freeze. John will describe his latest eBooks project that will provide digital resources to all water-sanitation practitioners and will be a major resource of groundwater knowledge for those who work in developing nations. 

Kyle Harper is an historian of the classical world and the Senior Vice President and Provost at his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma. Kyle has recently published a book The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire. His keynote address to the Conference will describe the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome’s power. 

Rural self-supply is one of the topics of water security that will be discussed.

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Remember - rates go up after July 29.