Invitation to World Water Day 2024 "Leveraging Water for Peace" webinar & week of events @ University of Birmingham, UK
Stefan Krause
World Water Day 2024 @ University of Birmingham, UK - Leveraging Water for Peace
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/university/colleges/les/events/2024/world-water-day-2024-leveraging-water-for-peace
All welcome
Established on 22 March 1993, World Water Day is an annual United Nations Observance focusing on the importance of freshwater. The aim of this annual event is to celebrate water and raise awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water, to tackle the global water crisis.
A core focus of World Water Day is to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030.
World Water Day 2024: Leveraging Water for Peace
On this World Water Day, we are bringing together experts from various fields to discuss the urgent need for action to address the global water crisis. The panel
discussion titled “Leveraging
Water for Peace” aims to raise awareness about the issue and provide a platform for discussing innovative solutions to tackle the challenge.
The panel on 22 March will explore the increasing problem of water scarcity on every continent, exploring ways to build resilience against climate change and to serve a growing population equitably and sustainably, an integrated and inclusive approach, centred
on human rights, and based on sound, trusted data, must be taken to managing this finite resource. This webinar will be delivered by:
Panel
· Klement Tockner, Director General of the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research, Professor for Ecosystem Research at the Institute for Biosciences at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
· Rita Floyd, Associate Professor in Conflict and Security, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham
· Adenike Akinsemolu, Vanguard Fellow, University of Birmingham, Senior Fellow, OGEES Institute and Director, The Green Institute
· Liz Saccoccia, Water Security Associate, World Resources Institute
· Ankit Agarwal, Assistant. Professor, Department of Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
· Phillip Beetlestone, Director of Water Resources, Stockholm International Water Institute
Chairs
· Stefan Krause, Head of the Birmingham Water Research Centre, Professor of Ecohydrology and Biogeochemistry, University of Birmingham
· David Hannah, Director of the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action, Professor of Hydrology, University of Birmingham
· Iseult Lynch, Professor of Environmental Nanosciences, University of Birmingham
The World Water Day and Week activities are held by the Birmingham Water Research Centre under the auspices of the UNESCO Chair in Water Sciences and UNESCO UNITWIN network on Ecohydrological Interfaces at Birmingham, the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability & Climate Action and the University's Institute of Global Innovation in collaboration with The Green Institute, Nigeria.
This event is free to attend and is open to all, both within and outside the University. If you wish to attend, please register here.
In the lead up to this panel discussion, we have also organised a weeklong
timetable of events, which
you can learn more about and register for here.
Speakers for the week include:
Monday 18 March: Prof. Berit Arheimer, IAHS – International Association of Hydrological Sciences, “The IAHS Science for Solutions decade, with Hydrology Engaging Local People IN a Global world (HELPING)”
Tuesday 19 March: Dr Anabelle Houdret, IDOS Bonn, “Conflict or cooperation? Test the water!”
Wednesday 20 March: Dr Tahmina Yasmin, University of Birmingham, “Pathways to Sustainability: Navigating the contested regime of freshwater sand mining through a nexus perspective”
Thursday 21 March: Prof. Wouter Buytaert, Imperial College London, “Hydrological knowledge co-production and inclusive governance in mountain river basins”
Professor Stefan Krause
Royal Society Industry Fellow
Chair of Ecohydrology and Biogeochemistry
School of Geography, Earth, and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/gees/krause-stefan.aspx
Visiting Research Professor, University of Lyon 1, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
Laboratory of the ecology of natural and anthropised hydrosystems (LEHNA)
Co-lead UNESCO UniTwin network on “Ecohydrological Interfaces Under Change”
Head of the Birmingham Water Council
Lead of the Water Challenges theme - Institute of Global Innovation
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Campaigns & Media:
Global Water Challenges:
Water Crisis: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/heroes/water-crisis.aspx
World Water Day at Birmingham: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/water-sciences/world-water-day/index.aspx
Household Water Inequalities: https://smartwatermagazine.com/news/university-birmingham/scientists-shine-new-light-household-water-inequality
Environmental Plastic Pollution:
Birmingham QUEST - Ganga Water Pollution Crisis: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/quest/sustainable-environments/microplastics-in-the-ganga.aspx
Birmingham QUEST - Microplastics in Rivers: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/quest/sustainable-environments/microplastics.aspx
Birmingham Brief - Single Use Plastics: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2019/04/tracking-the-sources-of-plastic-pollution.aspx
Birmingham Brief - Plastic Recycling Crisis: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2021/getting-a-grip-on-the-uks-plastic-recycling-crisis-alternatives-to-shipping-the-problem-overseas
Chronicles of Higher Education – Global Plastic Pollution Crisis: https://sponsored.chronicle.com/UniversityofBirmingham/
100 Plastic Rivers Programme: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/water-sciences/projects/plastic-rivers.aspx
First News: https://www.firstnews.co.uk/talking-points/special-report/plastic-recycling-doesnt-work-says-pm-is-he-right/
Equality and Diversity in HE:
Nature News: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01506-4
THE – Times Higher Education: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/female-scientists-less-likely-win-prizes-named-after-men
Birmingham Brief: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2022/women-miss-out-on-academic-awards-if-prizes-named-after-a-man
Forschung und Lehre: https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/karriere/forscherinnen-erhalten-seltener-preise-als-ihre-kollegen-4744
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