Contact: Dann Hayes, Director of Media Relations, 641-269-4834; Wayne Moyer, director of Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs, International Relations, and Human Rights at 641-269-3177

March 29, 2002

Senator Paul Simon headlines water symposium at Grinnell College

GRINNELL, Iowa -Senator Paul Simon and Ambassador Philip C. Wilcox Jr., headline a list of dignitaries and scholars who will discuss the coming world fresh water crisis at a symposium on April 2-4 at Grinnell College.

The symposium, sponsored by the Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs, International Relations, and Human Rights, will feature Paul Simon, a professor at Southern Illinois University and former U.S. senator from Illinois discussing "Tapped Out: Will We Go to War Over Water?" at the Forum South Lounge at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 3.

Ambassador Wilcox, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace and former ambassador-at-large and director for Israeli and Arab-Israeli Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, will give the Scholars' Convocation titled "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Land & Water," at 11 a.m. at Herrick Chapel on Thursday, April 4.

"The coming world crisis in the availability of clean fresh water can't be ignored," said Wayne Moyer, director of Rosenfield Program. "The symposium will examine the various dimensions of the developing crisis and discuss the choices which will have to be made."

Other speakers include Hubert A. Farbes, Jr., a Colorado attorney who specializes in commercial litigation, environmental law, regulatory law, and public utility law, will discuss "Conflict, Coveting, and River Compacts - Struggles for Water Supply in the Arid American West," and Linzhang Yang, deputy director of the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, discussing "The Effects of the Three Gorges Project on the Environment in the Yangtze River Valley."

Lectures at the symposium include

April 2 (Tuesday)
o Conflict, Coveting, and River Compacts - Struggles for Water Supply in the Arid American West," by Hubert A. Farbes, Jr., Attorney at Law, Denver, Colo., 8 p.m., Forum South Lounge, Grinnell College.

April 3 (Wednesday)
o Water Conflicts & Trade-Offs: The Case of the Danube, by Szabolcs Szekeres, director, Information for Investment Decisions, Inc., Budapest, Hungary, 4:15 p.m., Forum South Lounge, Grinnell College.

o Tapped Out: Will We Go to War Over Water, by Paul Simon, former U.S. senator (D-IL) and author of "The Coming Crisis in Water & What We Can Do About It," 8 p.m., Forum South Lounge, Grinnell College.

April 4 (Thursday)
o Scholars' Convocation: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Land & Water, by Ambassador Philip C. Wilcox, Jr., president, Foundation for Middle East Peace, 11 a.m., Herrick Chapel, Grinnell College.

o Human Population and Freshwater Scarcity: The Population-Environment Nexus, by Tom Gardner-Outlaw, senior technical advisor, Population & Environment, U.S. Agency for International Development, 4:15 p.m., Forum South Lounge, Grinnell College.

o The Effects of the Three Gorges Project on the Environment in the Yangtze River Valley, by Linzhang Yang, deputy director, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 8 p.m., Forum South Lounge, Grinnell College.

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