FREE Featured Talk with Peter Gleick Oct. 25 in Boulder: 
A New Direction for Water in the 21st Century

Please join us from 7-9pm on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, in Boulder to hear from Peter Gleick, author of The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present and a Hope for the Future. 

The event will take place from 7:00-9:00pm at University of Colorado, Boulder in the Unversity Memorial Center, Aspen Rooms, located at Broadway and Euclid. Public transit and parking is available nearby.

The event is free to attend but you must pre-register to attend using the link below. Peter will be speaking again the following night in Denver. Click here for details and to register for the Denver event.

The discussion will be followed by a book signing. If you have not yet gotten your copy of The Three Ages of Water, it will be available to purchase from the Boulder Bookstore the evening of the event.

This event is being produced collaboratively by Water Education Colorado together with the CU Boulder Masters in the Environment Program, the One World One Water Center at Metro State University, the Pacific Institute, and the American Water Works Association Rocky Mountain Section. 

Peter Gleick is perhaps the world's most widely known and cited water expert. Educated at Yale and Berkeley, he went on to cofound the Pacific Institute, the leading independent research group devoted to reimagining water for a changing world. He is a scientist by training, winner of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" award, and an elected member of both the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2018 he was awarded the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization. He lives in Berkeley, California.

About The Three Ages of Water

From the very creation of the planet billions of years ago to the present day, water has always been central to existence on Earth. And since long before the mythical Great Flood, it has been a defining force in the story of humanity.

In The Three Ages of Water, Gleick guides us through the long, fraught history of our relationship to this precious resource. Water has shaped civilizations and empires, and driven centuries of advances in science and technology—from agriculture to aqueducts, steam power to space exploration—and progress in health and medicine.

But the achievements that have propelled humanity forward also brought consequences, including unsustainable water use, ecological destruction, and global climate change, that now threaten to send us into a new dark age. We must change our ways, and quickly, to usher in a new age of water for the benefit of everyone. Drawing from the lessons of our past, Gleick charts a visionary path toward a sustainable future for water and the planet.

The conversation will be moderated by Michael Cohen, Senior Researcher at the Pacific Institute. Since 1998, Michael’s work with the Pacific Institute has focused on water use in the Colorado River basin and delta region and the management and revitalization of the Salton Sea ecosystem. Michael received a B.A. in Government from Cornell University and has a Master’s degree in Geography, with a concentration in Resources and Environmental Quality, from San Diego State University.Senior Researcher at the Pacific Institute. 

We look forward to seeing you there!