Numerous papers and abstracts from CWC staff and interns have been accepted for the annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting to be held in December in San Francisco. A delegation from CWC will be attending the event and the CWC team will make several presentations.
CWC Director Manu Lall was recently interviewd by EarthSky! Check out the interview about the impending groundwater crisis in India.
CWC Director Manu Lall was invited to be a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Water Security 2009. As a council member, he will be participating in the Summit on the Global Agenda to be held in Dubai from 20 to 22 November 2009, in partnership with the Government of Dubai
Our Mission Statement
The mission of the Columbia Water Center is to creatively tackle the issue of global water scarcity through innovations in technology, public policy and private action. Combining the rigor of scientific research with the impact of effective policy, we aim to design reliable, sustainable models of water management and development that can be implemented on local, regional and global levels.
The Columbia Water Center, in collaboration with other Earth Institute units and external partners, is leading intellectual inquiry into the assessment, understanding and resolution of the potentially global crisis of freshwater scarcity.
