Water and Culture Lecture Series

The Texas Drought Project is undertaken by the Texas Harambe Foundation of Austin, together with sponsorship from Texans for Peace and community partnership from organizations like the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance.

The Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance (GEAA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes effective broad-based advocacy for protection and preservation of the Edwards Aquifer, its springs, watersheds, and the Texas Hill Country that sustains it. The Edwards Aquifer is the source of the largest springs in Texas and the sole source of drinking water for more than 1.5 million Central Texas residents.

David Eaton's most recent publication on water resources in South Asia is the co-authored paper on "Water Sharing Between India and Pakistan: a Critical Evaluation of the Indus Water Treaty." He was Co-Director of the Yellow River Basin Planning Study at the Yellow River Conservatory Commission (1990-93) funded by the World Bank, which resulted in a long-term plan for management of the Yellow River.

Scott Slovic is the author of more than 150 articles concerning American and international environmental literature and ecocritical theory, Scott has also written, edited, or co-edited fifteen books, including most recently the book Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility (2008), which appeared in Chinese translation from Peking University Press in May 2010. He has frequently visited Taiwan and Mainland China since 2000, and in these presentations he will share what he has learned about Chinese water issues and “water culture” from his travels and his research.

Trey Moore holds a MFA from Texas State University. He teaches poetry in elementary, middle, and high schools -- plus homeless shelters, drug courts, libraries, and juvenile detention centers. Moore is the Founder and Director of the New Ground, an environmental arts action group. He has begun collecting stories and oral interviews from men and women in the coalfields of Kentucky. A recipient of a Prague Summer Program scholarship and San Antonio Artist of the Month, his first full-length collection, "Some Will Play the Cello" is a finalist for the Bob Bush Memorial Award for First Book of Poetry.