The Great Lakes Water Wars

From Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER:

WHAT: Public lecture "The Great Lakes Water Wars"
WHO: Peter Annin
WHEN: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Bulger Communications Center, Buffalo State College. Parking in Lot T. For directions, visit www.buffalostate.edu

Free and open to the public.

"The Great Lakes basin is one of the largest freshwater ecosystems on earth, and it is also home to forty million people in the United States and Canada," says Peter Annin, author of the award-winning book The Great Lakes Water Wars, a subject he will discuss at length in a talk--free and open to the public--at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, March 26th, in Bulger Communications Center, Buffalo State College. This event is cosponsored by Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER and Buffalo State Communication Department and made possible, in part, by a grant from LPCiminelli, Inc.

"This is the definitive book about the fight over Great Lakes water."
Professor Noah Hall, Wayne State University

There are several threats to the quantity of Great Lakes water: climate change, diversion, and consumptive uses. There are currently four diversions of water out of the Great Lakes basin, the largest of which is protected by the United States Supreme Court. Some policymakers in the American southwest seriously consider Great Lakes water as a possible solution to their water-supply problems.

A veteran conflict and environmental journalist, Peter Annin spent more than a decade reporting for Newsweek on issues ranging from the Branch Davidian standoff in Waco, Texas and the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing to droughts, hurricanes, wildfires, and other environmental issues. Since January 2000, he is Associate Director of the Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources, a nonprofit that organizes educational fellowships for environmental journalists and pursues quality news coverage of the environment.

Cosponsored by Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER and Buffalo State Communication Department with the help of a generous grant from LPCiminelli, Inc.