A legal scholar will discuss the complex issues surrounding the water we drink during a seminar at West Virginia University.

James Salzman, of Duke University, will present “Drinking Water: The Past, Present, and Future” at 6 p.m. on Tuesday (Nov. 11) in the College of Law Event Hall.

Salzman is the Samuel F. Mordecai Professor of Law and the Nicholas Institute Professor of Environmental Policy. He has written extensively on trade and environment conflicts, drinking water, environmental protection in the service economy, wetlands mitigation banking, and the legal and institutional issues in creating markets for ecosystem services.

In 2012, he published Drinking Water: A History. In it, Salzman shows how drinking water highlights the most pressing issues of our time, from globalization and social justice to terrorism and climate change, and how humans have been wrestling with these problems for centuries.

His lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for Energy and Sustainable Development in WVU’s College of Law and the Environmental Research Center in WVU’s Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design. It is part of the Environmental Research Center’s annual seminar series.

The seminar is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Jim Anderson at 304-293-3825 or Jim.Anderson@mail.wvu.edu.

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CONTACT: David Welsh, Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design
304.293.2394, David.Welsh@mail.wvu.edu

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