Water Justice: Local and Global Perspectives

A panel featuring:
Govind Gopakumar, Lecturer, Department of Environmental Studies, California State University, Sacramento; Visiting researcher with the Environmental Justice Project at UC Davis
Raoul Lievanos, PhD student, Department of Sociology; Research fellow in the Atmospheric Aerosols and Health Program in the Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources at UC Davis
Celia L. Davis, Program Coordinator, DataCenter

Moderator:
Beth Rose Middleton, Postdoctoral fellow, Native American Studies

Tuesday, June 2, 2009  |  Noon - 2 pm
3201 Hart Hall, University of California, Davis

Water – where it comes from; where it goes; the quality of it; the people, animals and plants that live in and around it – these are common issues that affect all communities, everywhere. From California’s Bay-Delta Estuary to Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore) in India, political and infrastructural conditions lead to conditions where some individuals and groups from race and ethnic groups are potentially at disproportionate risk from water hazards, declines in water quality and sanitation.

On June 3, panelists will converge to discuss water justice issues on both a local and global scale. “Water Justice: Local and Global Perspectives” will bring a lecturer of environmental studies together with a sociology graduate student and an invited panelist collecting data on the social and spatial distribution of water hazards in the Bay-Delta.

This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.