Toledo Law’s Annual Great Lakes Water Conference to Focus on Safe Drinking Water in Three Cities – Toledo, Flint, and Waukesha
March 22, 2016
Safe drinking water will be the focus of the 16th annual Great Lakes Water Conference on Friday, November 4, at The University of Toledo College of Law.
Titled “Safe Drinking Water: A Tale of Three Cities,” the conference will address the diverse drinking water challenges faced by Flint, Michigan; Toledo, Ohio; and Waukesha, Wisconsin. The one-day conference is sponsored by The University of Toledo College of Law and its Legal Institute of the Great Lakes.
Flint’s lead-contamination water crisis will be explored by experts including keynote speaker Todd Flood, special counsel for the Michigan Department of Attorney General and a Toledo Law alumnus. Panels also will discuss efforts to prevent a recurrence of Toledo’s microcystin contamination that led to a “do not drink” advisory in August 2014 and the approval earlier this year of Waukesha’s controversial request to divert Lake Michigan water out of the Great Lakes basin.
“Safe drinking water is a necessity, but not a given, even in this water-rich region,” said Ken Kilbert, a Toledo Law professor and director of the Legal Institute of the Great Lakes. “This conference will shed light on both the problems and potential solutions.”
The conference will begin at 8:30 am and close at 3 pm. Admission is free to the public, and attorneys can earn 5.0 hours of Ohio CLE for $75. For more information or to register for CLE or a box lunch, go to http://www.utoledo.edu/law/academics/ligl/conferences.html.