With the regional water crisis weighing so heavily on everyone’s minds, it’s no wonder that the Palestine Academy for Science and Technology and the Palestinian Water Authoirty have teamed up to host the 2nd International Conference on Water: Values and Rights.
The conference, to be held in Ramallah from April 13-15, will bring together academics, scientists, decision-makers, and more from a variety of sectors, and will feature prominent speakers from the Palestinian Territories, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
The conference will also address a variety of themes related to water management, water rights, and other aspects of water politics, as well as special themes including:
- The “Palestinian-Israeli Water Dispute,”
- “Cooperative Water Projects between Israel and Palestine: Pitfalls, Successes, and Lessons Learned,”
- “The Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources Management,”
- the “Red Sea-Dead Sea Conveyance Project.”
For more information, visit the conference website: http://www.waterrightsconference.org.
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Author: Rachel Bergstein
When her vegan summer camp counselor explained to a fifteen-year-old Rachel how the dairy industry pollutes the groundwater in poor rural communities and causes global warming, there was no turning back. Her green fire lit, Rachel became increasingly passionate about the relationship between human societies and the natural environment, particularly about the systemic injustices associated with environmental degradation. After snagging a B.A. in Peace and Justice Studies at the University of Maryland, where she wrote an undergraduate thesis on water injustice in Israel/Palestine and South Africa, Rachel was awarded the New Israel Fund/Shatil’s Rabbi Richard J. Israel Social Justice Fellowship to come and spread the green gospel in Israel for the 2009-2010 academic year. She currently interns for Friends of the Earth Middle East in their Tel Aviv office. When Rachel is not having anxiety about her ecological footprint, carbon and otherwise, she can be found in hot pursuit of the best vegetarian food Tel Aviv has to offer. She also blogs about her experience as an NIF fellow and environmentalist in Israel at organichummus.wordpress.com. Rachel can be reached at rachelbergstein (at) gmail (dot) com.
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