On behalf of the Global Water Futur es program and its national and international partners including t he United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, w e wish to invite you to participate as we broadcast a special World Water Day celebration from Canmore, Canada. The theme for World Water Day 2021 is Valuing Water: What Water Means to You. W e have modified that theme slightly to focus on Valuing Mountain Water in a global context.
This one-and-a-half-hou r webinar is scheduled to begin at 11:00 AM Mountain Daylight Time on Monday, March 22nd and will be broadcast by zoom around the wor ld.
The moderator of the webinar will be Bob Sandford, Global Water Futures Chair in Water & Climate Security a t the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment. Following a welcome by Canmore Mayor John Borrowman, presenters will include Parliam entary Secretary Terry Duguid on the creation of a new Canada Water Agency; Dr. John Pomeroy, Director of Global Water Futures; glaciologist Caroline Aubry-Wake; U of C Professor and former Director of the Water Survey of Can ada Alain Pietroniro; Louise Arnal, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Hydrolo gy, Canmore; climate modelling expert Professor Martyn Clark; Anil Mishra, Chief of Hydrological Systems and Water Scarcity, United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organisation, Paris; and Berit Arheimer, Professor, S wedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute & President, Internati onal Association of Hydrological Sciences.
For further information and to register, please visit our on-line event page.
Stacey Dumanski
Outreach Coordinator, Global Water Futures
University of Saskatchewan