From the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, to declining water levels in the Colorado River, water quality problems in the United States have become increasingly common. In Nourishing Growth and Suffocating Life, Daniel Mains argues that all too often subsidizing economic growth has self-destructive consequences for drinking water and stormwater infrastructure. Mains examines the case of Norman, Oklahoma, a liberal college town in one of the reddest states in the country, that is in many ways a microcosm of the nation.

The event is moderated by Derek Pardue (Aarhus University, co-founder of CEBRAGA), where the author of the book Daniel Mains (Professor, University of Oklahoma) will be part of the speakers together with Ciara Kierens (Professor, Aarhus University, leader of the FILTERSCAPE project on water politics, health and technology in Denmark and Mexico), and Léa Lebeaupin-Salamon (Post-doctoral Researcher, UC Louvain, Belgium, active research on water politics in Brazil).

Please see more details on the book launch here, and read about the book here.