A Global Water Crisis is Coming: What Can the World Do to Avoid it?

Event time: 
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 6:00pm
Location: 
Slifka Center See map
80 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Join Yale School of Forestry & Environmental StudiesSlifka Center, Fresh & Salty: Society for Marine & Coastal, Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, and Yale Friends of Israel for a Discussion with Best-Selling Author - Seth M. Siegel.

Let There Be Water illustrates how Israel can serve as a model for the United States and countries everywhere by showing how to blunt the worst of the coming water calamities. Even with 60 percent of its country made of desert, Israel has not only solved its water problem; it also had an abundance of water. Israel even supplies water to its neighbors-the Palestinians and the Kingdom of Jordan-every day.

Based on meticulous research and hundreds of interviews, Let There Be Water reveals the methods and techniques of the often offbeat inventors who enabled Israel to lead the world in cutting-edge water technology.

Let There Be Water also tells unknown stories of how cooperation on water systems can forge diplomatic ties and promote unity. Remarkably, not long ago, now-hostile Iran relied on Israel to manage its water systems, and access to Israel’s water know-how helped to warm China’s frosty relations with Israel.