Category Archives: Environmental Justice

2023 Fall Seminar Sponsored by: Water Resources Research Center University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa- Water IS Water – not waste! International Options for Smart Wastewater Treatment Decisions

WATER IS WATER – NOT WASTE!
International Options for Smart Wastewater Treatment Decisions

WasteWater Education 501(c)3

For many small communities in Hawaii, the US, and overseas, the central wastewater infra-structure is not always affordable, geologically impossible to construct, and financially unsustainable with local resources.
WasteWater Education 501(c)3, with 21 years of operation, provides access to education and resources that increase public awareness of the link between appropriate wastewater systems and (1) clean drinking water, (2) safe recreational waters, (3) environmentally sustainable surface, and (4) groundwater with watershed-based best management practices.
WasteWater Education emphasizes water resource management and reuse strategies given the increasing impacts of climate change. Extreme weather events impact maintenance, operations and water availability and use. Resource recovery and building ‘smart’ should be prevalent in the design process. Webinar attendees will hear from our Board of Directors, who are international professionals, on how issues affecting Hawaii have been addressed worldwide and how the lessons learned can be put into practice here.
Speakers:
Ben Kele: Board Chair. Director at Arris Water, Rockhampton, Australia Director and co-founder of Arris Water.
Oliver Grievson: Vice Chair. Associate Director at AtkinsRéalis and a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter.
Lesley Desjardins: Board Secretary. Executive Director Western Canada Onsite Wastewater Management Association.
Richard Flynn: Board Member. Past Chairman at Irish Onsite Wastewater Association (IOWA). Vice President CABEVice President CABE.
Dendra J. Best: Executive Director, Wastewater Education 501(c)3. HWEA, ASTM D-19, NEHA, CCH Board.

50 years of Earth Month: 50 years of environmental justice

This marks the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day – and who could have imagined what kind of world we are experiencing now?

In April we have partnered with some amazing people and organizations who have given generously of their time and expertise to provide the following events at no cost to attendees. Bookmark our page as we are adding new events all the time. Our live attendance space is limited to 195 but we will be posting recordings here and in our WasteWater Education YouTube Channel

Tuesday April 14 at 2 PM ET – Register HERE

Catherine Flowers, a past WasteWater Education Board member, is a Franklin Center for the Humanities Practitioner in Residence.Based in Montgomery, Alabama, she is a fierce advocate for the under served and largely ignored working poor.
In this lecture, as part of our Earth Month series of public outreach events, Catherine will reflect on the disparity of progress made in the past 50 years of the environmental movement – a disparity still in evidence today.

Catherine is also an internationally recognized advocate for the human right to water and sanitation as expressed in the UN Sustainable Development Agenda.
In 2019 she testified before the US House Committee.
She is a Professor of Practice at Duke University.
Image courtesy of Pixabay la Fundación Hugo Zárate