In honor of Hurricane Joaquin, I thought I’d announce the topic and speakers for this year’s Felician Institute Fall Symposium:

The Fourth Annual Felician Institute Fall Symposium–“The Ethics, Politics, and Economics of Water”–will take place on Saturday, October 24, 2015 between 1 and 5 pm in the Education Commons Building on Felician’s Rutherford, New Jersey campus. Speakers include Joshua Briemberg, Representative for Program Development, WaterAid; Britt Long, Esq., an attorney in private practice and one-time litigator for the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation; and Don Conger, North Hudson Sewerage Authority. This event is co-sponsored by the Felician Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs, the Felician College Pre-Law Program, and the Felician College UN Fellows Program.

If you’re in the area, please stop by. Refreshments served (yes, fresh water, too).

Some interesting water-oriented links (not necessarily indicative of the content of any given speaker’s presentation):

• UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation.
• The Ownership and Control of Water (Foundation for Economic Education blog post)
• U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Basic Law of Water Boundaries (PDF)
• Charity: Water, Pakistan
• Water and Theocracy in Pakistan (PoT blog post)
• Visualizing Palestine: Not Enough Water in the West Bank?
• Denise D. Fort, “Water and Population in the American West”
• NPR: Water Wars: Who Controls the Flow? (Klamath River Basin Controversy)
• Bloomfield, New Jersey Water Advisories