'Getting ready for the Anthropocene: overcoming obstacles on the development path for municipal water and sanitation services' with Prof Dale Whittington

Forthcoming Event

Date
 21 October 2024, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Registration Required

Location
 Oxford Martin School & Online
34 Broad Street (corner of Holywell and Catte Streets), Oxford, OX1 3BD

A row of pipes releasing water

Cities go through three phases on their development path to deliver improved municipal water and sanitation services to their customers.

Globally cities can be found in all three phases, but even cities far along on this development path are rarely prepared for what is coming in the Anthropocene.

Municipal water utilities in many locations are facing water scarcity and will need an improved policy mix to reduce their raw water withdrawals and avoid ‘Day Zeros’. The results of a systems optimisation model illustrate the magnitude of the reductions in raw water withdrawals that are possible in a circular urban water system and the trade-offs between reduced raw water withdrawals and system-wide costs.

This is a joint event with the Oxford Martin Systemic Resilience Initiative.

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Dale Whittington

Professor Dale Whittington
Visiting Fellow, Oxford Martin Systemic Resilience Initiative

Dale Whittington is a Professor in the Departments of Environmental Sciences & Engineering and City & Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Visiting Fellow at the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Research Associate at the Institute of Water Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

He is the author of over 200 journal articles, book chapters, consultant reports, and other publications, including (with Professor Duncan MacRae) a graduate textbook on public policy analysis, Expert Advice for Policy Choice (1997). In 2021, Professor Whittington was the President of the Society for Benefit Cost Analysis.

Since 2014, Professor Whittington and Dr Duncan Thomas have offered the two-part Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), “Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries” on the COURSERA platform. Over 40,000 students have participated from 184 countries.

Professor Whittington is a Visiting Fellow with the Oxford Martin Systemic Resilience Initiative.

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