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Climate's Impact on Water

Climate Change Conversations is a climate-focused lecture series brought to you by Harvard Alumni Travels and Yale Alumni Academy featuring expert faculty and researchers in the field.

For many people, climate change is felt most directly through water. In some places, water scarcity is becoming commonplace while in others flooding threatens to destroy communities. The concerns go well beyond drought and flood. The webinar will explore the consequences of changed timing of precipitation and how it falls (as rain rather than snow). The questions we face could not be more critical: In times of drought, how will we allocate water between farms and cities? When the water runs out, how do we decide who gets to drink? And what technological and governance fixes are necessary to ensure sustainable access to water in the decades to come?

Jim Salzman

Jim Salzman ’85 (Harvard ’89 LAW, ’90 GRD) is the Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law with joint appointments at the UCLA School of Law and at the School of the Environment at UC Santa Barbara. An international experton drinking water, he frequently appears as a media commentator and has lectured on every continent except Antarctica. He has taught at Yale, Stanford, Duke, and Harvard as well as at universities in Australia, China, Israel, Italy, Portugal, and Sweden. In nine books and more than ninety articles and book chapters, his broad-ranging scholarship has addressed topics ranging from water to wildlife, from climate change to creating markets for ecosystems.

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