Water Activism: Detroit, Flint, and the Great Lakes

Environmental lawyer Jim Olson, Founder and President of the Traverse City-based FLOW (For Love of Water), argued and won the case Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation v Nestlé Waters North America Inc. This case curbed the mining and pumping of local spring waters for bottled-water usage. He is joined in conversation with medical anthropologist Nadia Gaber, a member of We The People of Detroit Community Research Collective, and an advocate for access to clean water as a human right. Moderated by Catherine Fennell, Department of Anthropology.

Co-presented by Columbia School of Social Work; Department of Anthropology; Mailman School of Public Health; Sabin Center for Climate Change Law; and the School of the Arts.

Check-in will begin one hour prior to start time.











When: Thu., Feb. 27, 2020 at 6:30 pm
Where: Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 W. 129th St.
212-854-1754
Price: Free
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Environmental lawyer Jim Olson, Founder and President of the Traverse City-based FLOW (For Love of Water), argued and won the case Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation v Nestlé Waters North America Inc. This case curbed the mining and pumping of local spring waters for bottled-water usage. He is joined in conversation with medical anthropologist Nadia Gaber, a member of We The People of Detroit Community Research Collective, and an advocate for access to clean water as a human right. Moderated by Catherine Fennell, Department of Anthropology.

Co-presented by Columbia School of Social Work; Department of Anthropology; Mailman School of Public Health; Sabin Center for Climate Change Law; and the School of the Arts.

Check-in will begin one hour prior to start time.

Buy tickets/get more info now