TUESDAY! "Water, Technology, and Sustainability: Are we Engineering Vulnerability?" 4pm, Nifkin

(Co-sponsoring with the ESF Women's Caucus, EFB Department) 
Dr. Lilian Na'ia Alessa, Professor of Biology and Director, Resilience and Adaptive  Management Group, University of Alaska Anchorage
Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 4-5 pm, Nifkin Lounge or Marshall Auditorium, Marshall Hall

"Water, Technology and Sustainability: Are we Engineering Vulnerability?"
Water resources continue to challenge societies around the world. As part of the solution, water technologies ranging from reclamation, to storage to household level conservation hardware have been implemented. In this talk we explore the role of technology in achieving water sustainability and question the increasing effort to 'engineer' water efficiency. We will challenge the dominant belief that with better technology we will be able to achieve resilience and demonstrate the need to approach water issues from a human hydrological perspective.