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Elections are coming, Summer is coming....... the topics of this Saturday have a bearing on both!!
Are you up to standing up as a citizen, to save your city, and your habitat?
Are you knowledgeable enough about water, to actually stand up for the right policies?
Come get an education this weekend! Mark your calendars!
2018 is starting off with a Bang! We have two heavyweights in the field of environment and water speaking at Earth Friendly Choices!
AGENDA:
9:30 AM : Gates Open
10:00 AM :
Talk 1 : "Be Local in Consumption. More so, with Governance; how devolution and decentralisation of power is critical to an environmentally and socially Just world", by Leo Saldanha. Followed by Q&A.
11:15 AM : Refreshment and Networking Break
11:30 AM :
Talk 2: "Past, Present & Future of WATER - Wells, Lakes, Rains, Wastewater", by Vishwanath Srikantaiah. Followed by Q&A.
01:00 PM : Close.
Speaker Profiles:
Leo F. Saldanha is full-time Coordinator of ESG. He has gained wide-ranging experience in the areas of Environmental Law and Policy, Decentralisation, Urban Planning and a variety of Human Rights and Development related issues, working across
many sectors for over a decade. He is a keen campaigner on critical environmental and social justice issues and has guided several campaigns demanding evolution of progressive laws and effective action. He has creatively supported various distressed communities
to secure justice through public interest litigations and advocacy efforts, arguing as party in person several public interest litigations, many of which have resulted in remarkable judgments.
Vishwanath Srikantaiah is the Founder of Rainwater Club, and Director, Biome Environmental Services Pvt. Ltd., He has
has spent years working on urban water issues, especially rainwater harvesting, gray water reuse, ecological sanitation systems and sustainable water management issues. He has worked on drinking water solutions in the Fluoride affected rural areas and has also
come up with ecological sanitation systems, poly-houses with rainwater harvesting systems, ground water recharge systems and integrated rural water management systems.
Please mark your calendars, so you don't miss this most 'direction-setting of events', of the new year!
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