Opening the Floodgates on a Finite Resource: The Implication of a Human Right to Water

 

March 5, 2005

Friday, March 18th, 9:00am - 1:00pm American University, Washington College of Law

Washington, D.C. (March 14, 2005) – The United Nations has declared 2005 to 2015 the International Decade for Action, "Water for Life." In honor of the new decade on water, American University's Washington College of Law (WCL), Sustainable Development Law & Policy, WCL's Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, and the WCL Environmental Law Society present a half-day event focusing on the debate of whether there should be a human right to water. The event will be held in Room 603 of American University's Washington College of Law, 4801 Massachusetts Ave., NW, on March 18, from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.

9 a.m.

Panel 1: Will address whether water should be a human right and the implications on the conservation and the economic sustainability of projects promoting access to water.

Salman Salman, Lead Counsel in the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development and International Law Group of the World Bank Legal Presidency

Karin Krchnak, Director, International Water Policy with The Nature Conservancy

Steven Tullberg, Lawyer for international indigenous rights

 

11 a.m.

Panel 2: Will focus on resolving disputes over water rights and how the issue has shaped past conflicts, future sources of water conflicts and how such disputes affect the debate.

Reid Chambers, Partner at Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Endreson, and Perry, LLP

Marcos Orellana, Senior Attorney, Center for International Environmental Law

Frederick Lorenz, Jackson School of Int'l Studies, University of Washington, Seattle

 

12:30 p.m.

Keynote Speaker: Former U.S. Ambassador John McDonald, who served as U.S. coordinator during the previous U.N. Decade on Drinking Water and Sanitation.

This event is free and open to the public. We ask that you register for this event at: http://www.wcl.american.edu/secle/cle_form.cfm. CLE credit is available. Press must RSVP to Kathy Thompson, director of Public Relations, 202-274-4279; Cell Phone: 703-855-5556; or E-mail: kthomp@WCL.american.edu.

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