Water Overtakes Energy as the Critical Crisis?
Venturing in Water Technology and Opportunity

Saturday, March 8, 2008

at the California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California

Despite a wet year, SoCal’s water problem remains. Growing population and declining import availability will eventually trump our reservoir buffering of nature’s occasional bounty. But if SoCal has it bad, what of elsewhere, especially foreign lands where water already is desperately lacking? Or where every conceivable use and abuse of it takes place in the same place at the same time, and it is wholly untreated. Indeed water-borne disease fills half the worlds’ hospital beds and unsafe drinking water kills millions annually. Unless behavior and technology can sufficiently advance water’s use and reuse soon, “water” stands to displace “energy” as the crisis. This necessity, against a tapestry of infrastructure neglect and lack of innovation, signals opportunity for new ventures in a long sleeping industry.

Today’s program keynote speaker will set the stage for new ventures: addressing key facets of water generally and specific situations from SoCal to across the globe. With that perspective, we will feature entrepreneurs and panelists involved in pushing the technology envelope for greater water efficiencies and economies. Confirmed speakers include:

Keynote

Timothy F. Brick
Chair
Metropolitan Water District Board of Directors

Entrepreneurs/Panelists

Yoram Cohen, Ph.D.,
Professor
UCLA Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Director
Center for Environmental Risk Reduction
UCLA, and nationally recognized water researcher

James M. Harris
Chief Executive Officer
Crystal Clear Technologies, Inc.

Moderator/Co-Producers

Michael M. Krieger
Attorney at Law
Willenken Wilson Loh & Lieb L.L.P.

Lynn Foster
Emerging Technologies Director
Greenberg Traurig L.L.P.

Date

Saturday morning, March 8, 2008

Location

Registration and Continental Breakfast:
8:00 a.m. at Baxter Hall, Caltech
Program:
9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall
Networking:
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon at Baxter Hall, Caltech

FOR INFORMATION

Entretech
295 South Hill Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91106
ph: 626/356-9933
fx: 626/356-7515
email:

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