The Role of Science and Policy: Drinking Water Safety After Fires

900 University Avenue,Riverside CA 92521

20 October, 2021

Description

The first Water Seminar Series event of the Fall 2021 quarter. Please register directly for this event on Zoom: https://cutt.ly/water-whelton Drinking water infrastructure is critical for the health, safety, and economic prosperity of communities nationwide. Extensive and repeated wildfire damage to American and Canadian drinking water systems has exposed gaps in knowledge about infrastructure safety. Recent wildfires have revealed that buried drinking distribution system and plumbing contamination is poorly understood as well as they, themselves, becoming the generators of contamination. Firsthand experiences and results of recent studies regarding drinking water infrastructure contamination and decontamination will be shared. The role of plastics and community needs will also be discussed. The School of Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside is training a new generation of forward-thinking public policy leaders equipped to address the complex, interrelated challenges of poverty, disease, climate change, pollution and more. It is only one of four public policy schools in the ten-campus University of California system. It offers the only undergraduate program in public policy in the UC system, and is home to the only Master of Public Policy program at a major research university in Inland Southern California.