Aspen Institute: "A Long Walk to Water: Women, Population, & Access to Safe Water"

Please join me at this event organized by our friends at the Aspen Institute:

7 BILLION: CONVERSATIONS THAT MATTER
"A Long Walk to Water:
Women, Population, & Access to Safe Water"

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 12:00-2:00pm The Aspen Institute One Dupont Circle NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC

Aspen Global Health and Development invites you to join us
for this 7 BILLION series event, featuring:

Salva Dut, Founder and President, Water for South Sudan. A former "Lost Boy" of Sudan, Salva is the subject of the recent book A Long Walk to Water. Water for South Sudan Inc. drills borehole wells which bring safe drinking water to the people in South Sudan's remote villages, transforming lives in the process.

Shewaye Deribe, Project Coordinator, Ethio-Wetlands and Natural Resource Association (EWNRA). EWNRA seeks to integrate socio-economic and environmental/biodiversity issues at watershed level, using an integrated, community-centered approach to restore the watershed, create alternative livelihoods, strengthen health systems, and improve reproductive health.

Jaehyang So, Manager of the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). WSP is a a multi-donor partnership administered by the World Bank to support poor people in obtaining affordable, safe, and sustainable access to water and sanitation services. Ms. So has a background in urban service delivery, utilities and corporate restructuring, and public-private partnerships.

Moderated by Peggy Clark, Executive Director, Aspen Global Health and Development, and Vice President, Policy Programs at The Aspen Institute. Peggy provides strategic oversight and guidance to the Institute’s 26 policy programs and leads programs promoting breakthrough approaches to global development.

A buffet lunch will be served.
Please RSVP at www.aspeninstitute.org/GHD/7Billion

Media: For more information or to RSVP, please contact Carol Miller at +1-202-306-0130 or carolmiller100 (at) gmail (dot) com

Event / CSIS / Water and Sanitation Program / The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Sanitation in India

This will be a worthwhile event for those of you in DC.

The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Sanitation in India

An event with the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP)

Friday, February 11, 2:30 - 4:00 pm
B1 Conference Center, Room B
CSIS 1800 K. St. NW, Washington, DC 20006

In December, WSP reported that the economic impacts of inadequate sanitation in India amount to $53.8 billion a year, or over 6% of the nation's 2006 GDP. The findings were released in the report "Economic Impacts of Inadequate Sanitation in India," which calculated a comprehensive range of economic losses, including those related to health care, tourism, and productivity. Please join us for a discussion with the report authors on the implications of their research and plans for future work of the Economics of Sanitation Initiative.To read WSP's report, please click here.

Please RSVP to Katryn Bowe at kbowe (AT) csis (DOT) org.

"Water is Medicine" Capitol Hill Briefing - Jae So of the Water and Sanitation Program

From the July 29, 2009 Capitol Hill Briefing "Water is Medicine" please take a moment to watch Jae So's interview from the Water and Sanitation Program (a global partnership administered by the World Bank):


http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-306686

Capitol Hill Briefing: Water is Medicine

See you tomorrow in Washington DC!

Water is Medicine
Capitol Hill Briefing
July 29, 2009

On Wednesday July 29, 2009, the bipartisan Congressional Water Caucus and Water Advocates are hosting a Capitol Hill Briefing in Washington, DC on the vital linkages between safe drinking water, sanitation and global public health challenges:

** Water is Medicine: Safe Water, Sanitation and Global Public Health Challenges **

Speakers will discuss the gravity of the current global safe drinking water and sanitation challenge, and its critical impact on global public health, including the 25+ diseases due to unsafe water and inadequate sanitation. Speakers will also review what is currently being done around the world to help meet the need for safe water, improved sanitation and better health, and offer examples and case studies of what the U.S. government and others in the international donor community are doing to help meet and exceed the Millennium Development Goals for water, sanitation and health. The costs associated with this challenge will be addressed, as will the impact of inaction on health and economic development.

What: Capitol Hill Briefing, "Water is Medicine: Safe Water, Sanitation and Global Public Health Challenges"

Who: Speakers will include noted public health experts and leaders from prominent international aid agencies

· Christine Moe, Director, Center for Global Safe Water
Emory University

· Jae So, Manager, Water and Sanitation Program
Global Partnership administered by the World Bank

· Rich Thorsten, Director of International Programs, Water.org
Co-founded by Matt Damon and Gary White

Moderated by John Oldfield, Water Advocates

When: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 2pm - 3pm

Where: Capitol Visitor Center, South Meeting Room http://www.visitthecapitol.gov/Visit/
Please allow time for security clearance.

Please circulate this invitation widely.

RSVP to Water Advocates at wateradvocatesrsvp@gmail.com.