Water Now and In the Future

Speaker: Doug Ellrich

The state of water availability in the present and in the future around the world. There are 3 main aspects. 1. There is the technology of water - storage, various desalination methods, uses. 2. There is the availability of water with several places as examples - Saudi Arabia, Morocco, SoCal, Uzbekistan, Canada, Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, Africa. 3. The politics. The water rights agreements of the American West, how water gets allocated by these hundred year old agreements. Africa; after decades of water projects in Africa, it's still a place where millions upon millions of people still do not have clean water after there have been $trillions spent trying to bring clean water to Africa. The politics of drought and the science of climate change as it affects water availability.

Doug Ellrich worked for the Marion County Welfare Department from 1973-1979. He served in the US Army from 1979-1989. He worked at the U. S. Department of State from 1990 - 2014. He has been a Scientech club member since 2023.