Leading Water, Sustainability Experts from Australia to Offer Lessons on Drought, Climate Change
LOS ANGELES-(Business Wire)-September 25, 2009 - Metropolitan Water District:
| WHAT: | Gavin Jennings, Australia’s Minister for Environment and Global Change, will join David Downie, General Manager of the Office of Water in Victoria’s Department of Sustainability & Environment, in offering Southern California water leaders lessons in dealing with drought and climate change. | ||||
| WHEN: | 1 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29 | ||||
| WHERE: | Board Room, Metropolitan Water District headquarters, 700 N. Alameda St. downtown Los Angeles, adjacent to historic Union Station (Los Angeles County Thomas Guide page 634, G/H-3) | ||||
| PARTICIPANTS: | Host Timothy F. Brick, chairman of the board, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California; Jennings, who also serves as a member of the Legislative Council for the South-Eastern Metropolitan Region; Downie; and water managers and planners from throughout the Southland | ||||
| BACKGROUND: | With California in the midst of a third year of drought and facing severe water supply challenges, Jennings and Downie will offer their observations about water sustainability and reliability, modernization of water delivery systems, integrating desalination as a resource and the importance of water policy development and strategies in an era of climate change. | ||||
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is a cooperative of 26 cities and water agencies serving 19 million people in six counties. The district imports water from the Colorado River and Northern California to supplement local supplies, and helps its members to develop increased water conservation, recycling, storage and other resource-management programs.
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