CITIZENS WATER ADVOCACY GROUP

CONTACT: Leslie Hoy, 928-445-4218 or Art Manburg, 928-445-6872

March 21, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WATER SECURITY: AN EVOLVING EMERGENCY

Water is the one indispensable resource. It is the lifeblood that sustains life. When water is threatened, all living things are threatened. Yet we treat it as a commodity and fail to respect its essential nature. We are already creating an emergency that will be made worse with increasingly extreme climate events.

Ecosa Institute Director Tony Brown will review the current state of global and local water supplies and propose methodologies for securing our water resources into the distant future in a talk entitled “Water Security: An Evolving Emergency” on Saturday, Apr. 9 at the monthly meeting of the Citizens Water Advocacy Group (CWAG) from 10 a.m. to noon at the Granite Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 882 Sunset in Prescott (two blocks behind True Value).

In 1996, Brown founded the Ecosa Institute where he continues to develop an innovative approach to educating students and graduates in the role of sustainability in design. He is a Registered Architect, teaches at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Northern Arizona, and Adjunct Visiting Scholar in Architecture at Ball State University.

For more info about the Apr. 9 meeting, call 445-4218 or visit www.cwagAZ.org.

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