[OKC] Free Water Symposium

[Brunson, Laura R.]

The University of Oklahoma WaTER Symposium

October 31, 2008

DL Boren Auditorium, National Weather Center,

Norman, OK
A lack of access to safe and reliable drinking water for all of mankind has been a persistent and significant problem throughout history. Today, the World Health Organization estimates that 1.1 billion people do not have access to safe drinking water and 2.6 billion have inadequate sanitation. The U.N. has chosen as one of its millennium goals to cut in half by the year 2015 the number of people without clean drinking water, and has designated 2005-2015 as the International Decade of Action. To assist with these goals, the US passed the Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act.
The University of Oklahoma’s Water Technologies for Emerging Regions (WaTER) Center was formed to meet a growing need for university-based programs with the personnel and resources to assume a leadership role in the international water development scene that includes not only technical innovations, but educational opportunities for US students and citizens of the affected regions.


The WaTER Center will host a one-half day symposium on “Water and Sanitation Issues in Emerging Regions” on Friday October 31, 2008. The symposium will be held in the David L. Boren Auditorium at the National Weather Center in Norman, OK. The symposium will include discussions with a distinguished panel of jurors on campus to identify  the inaugural winner of the University of Oklahoma Water Prize. The distinguished panel of jurors are listed on the back side of this announcement. The University of Oklahoma Water Prize Recipient will give the Plenary Lecture at the 2009 Oklahoma WaTER Conference to be held at OU October 26-27, 2009.


2008 Oklahoma Water Symposium

TIME                                                  TOPIC
9:00-9:15         Overview of Water and Sanitation Issues and Panel Introduction

9:15-10:30       Opening Statements from Panelists

10:30-10:45     BREAK

10:45-12:00     Question and Answer Session with Panelists

Noon               Lunch – Announcement of University of Oklahoma Water Prize Recipient


NOTE: The symposium is free and open to the public. In order to ensure that you receive a lunch, we ask that you pre-register at http://water.ou.edu

PANELISTS FOR THE INAUGURAL OKLAHOMA WATER PRIZE



Dr. Michael Campana is a hydrogeologist and international expert on a range of complex water management issues. He became Director of the Institute for Water and Watersheds at Oregon State University in June 2006 after serving as the director of the Water Resources Program at the University of New Mexico. He has done extensive research on water resources in developing countries, transboundary water resource issues, water allocation and availability, and other areas. He is also founder and president of a charitable foundation that funds and undertakes water, health and sanitation projects in developing nations.



Ms. Daniele Lantagne works for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA.  She received her Environmental Engineer degrees from MIT (BS '96, M.Eng. '01, PE '03) and is currently pursuing her PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in addition to working at CDC.  In her 3 years at MIT and 4 years with CDC, she has worked to implement and study chlorination, filtration, and combined treatment household water treatment implementations in over 30 countries. She is a member of the board of directors for Potters for Peace.



Malcolm S. Morris is Chairman of Stewart Title Company. Mr. Morris received his bachelor of business administration from Southern Methodist University, a master's degree in business administration and his doctor of jurisprudence from the University of Texas. He served as president of both the Texas Land Title Association and the American Land Title Association. Mr. Morris is also an active civic leader, having served as Chairman of Living Water International and founded and serves as Chairman of the "Millennium Water Alliance" of American non-profit organizations with a common goal to bring clean water to 500 million people by the year 2015.


Henock Gezahegn is Marketing and Technical Services Director for Population Services International, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  Mr. Gezahegn has extensive senior management experience, having led activities in both the private and public sectors.  His experience in health services delivery includes social marketing of Point of Use (POU)  water treatment and Malaria prevention. He was instrumental in setting up the POU intervention in Ethiopia starting from determination of chlorine demand up to setting up local production capacity and marketing to citizens of Ethiopia.


Dr. Greg Allgood is the Director of Children’s Safe Drinking Water at Procter & Gamble and Senior Fellow in Sustainability.   Dr. Allgood has been with P&G for 23 years and leads P&G’s efforts to provide safe drinking water in the developing world.  He has a PhD in Toxicology from North Carolina State University and a Master of Science in Public Health from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, where he did research in the water area.  In 2007, the program that Dr. Allgood leads received the Ron Brown US Presidential Award for Corporate Citizenship, the United Nations Association Global Leadership Award, the Grainger Challenge Bronze Award for Sustainability, and the EPA Children’s Health Excellence Award.  Dr Allgood is chair of the communications working group of WHO’s International Network to Promote Household Water Treatment.  He serves on the Advisory Board of Aquaya Institute and the Global Health Focus of the Clinton Global Initiative.

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