H20: It's vital for our survival! Prof Will Zimmerman & David Wilkes/Arup

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Join the debate! Find out what’s going on and have your say to help shape our Planet.

 

How can we secure a safe and adaptable water supply to meet all of our needs?

(This may include the need to grow more of our food locally.)

 

Open to everyone – no knowledge or experience assumed.

 

 

Hosted by

DLA Piper LLP, 1 St Paul’s Place, Sheffield S1 2JX

(Entrance between Café Nero and Café Rouge outside the Peace Gardens)

 

Registration 1.30pm for a 1.40pm start on Thursday, 22nd September 2011

 

Meet world-renowned engineers, passionate about their work, keen to meet like-minded people to debate the issues using Crowd Wise* – developed by nef so that together we can all make a difference.

 

Contributing Engineers:

• Bryan Penny, Chartered Principal Engineer, Civil Engineering Water Team, Mott
  
• MacDonald
   
  
• Louise Pettinger, Civil Engineer, Water Team, Mott MacDonald
   
  
• Ian Stevens, Asset Policy Manager, Yorkshire Water
   
  
• David Wilkes, Associate Director, Arup and President CIWEM 2011/12
   
  
• Professor Will Zimmerman, Biochemical Dynamics Systems, The
  University of Sheffield

 

 

Facilitators:

Perry Walker, Fellow, New Economics Foundation (nef)

Wendy Stern, Founder, Action for Involvement

 

To find out what you’ve got to say about our Planet and its vital resources, over the next few months we’re turning the spotlight on four critical themes affecting all of us: Water, Transport, Manufacturing and Construction/Housing.

 

Kicking off with WATER, we’ll use Crowd Wise* (developed by nef to help us reach consensus on potentially tricky issues) to look at how we can secure and manage a safe water supply to meet all of our needs.

• How can we protect our planet’s most vital resource: water?
  
• Should we manage water which flows from one region to another and is unequally distributed across the country?
  
• Have we got flood control under control?
  
• How can we make better use of rain water?
  
• Do we need to use less water and if so, how do we make it happen?
  
• Should we move to where there is sufficient water to support our population?
  
• What would make you support or oppose such projects?
  

* Crowd Wise is a tested, flexible and participative way of taking shared decisions by combining consensus voting and constructive dialogue to overcome differences, find common ground and reach more productive outcomes. It can be used for a wide range of issues or decisions such as affecting priorities, allocating budgets or responding to consultations.

 

 

Booking essential as places are limited.

Event Charge: £5; Concessions £1. Standard Charge: £15 for booking but not turning up.

 

To book your place please use our online registration form; for other enquiries please email [email protected], text or call Wendy on 07946 453258.

 

 

Action for Involvement brings together people to increase community involvement, help improve value for money and good practice. Areas of interest include education, environment, housing, health/welfare, transport and technology. We gratefully appreciate funds from the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Ingenious Grants Project and support of our Steering Group sponsors which has made this series of four events possible.