The Valpo Core

A presentation by Peter Annin,

Author of The Great Lakes Water Wars

April 21, 2009

7:00pm

Valparaiso University

Neils Science Center 234

A veteran conflict and environmental journalist, Peter Annin spent more than a decade reporting on a wide variety of issues for Newsweek.  He has spent many years writing about the environment, including droughts in the Southwest, hurricanes in the Southeast, wind power on the Great Plains, forest fires in the mountain West, recovery efforts on the Great Lakes, and the causes and consequences of the “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico.

Since January 2000 Annin has worked as Associate Director of the Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources, a nonpartisan national nonprofit that organizes educational fellowships for mid-career environmental journalists. (www.ijnr.org) In September 2006 he published his first book, The Great Lakes Water Wars, which has been called the definitive work on the Great Lakes water diversion controversy (www.greatlakeswaterwars.com). In 2007 the book received the Great Lakes Book Award for nonfiction.

Peter will give a general summary of the water diversion controversies found in The Great Lakes Water Wars, and close the gap between the end of the book and the current status of the Great Lakes Compact.  Issues specifically relevant to Indiana and Valparaiso will also be addressed.

There will be a book sale and signing immediately following the presentation.

Flyer: The Great Lakes Water Wars