Professor Shelley Saxer Presents "Land Use and Urban Water Supply" -- Texas A and M University School of Law

Professor Shelley Ross Saxer presented "Land Use and Urban Water Supply"  at Texas A&M University School of Law's Journal of Property Law Symposium.  The presentation analyzed how land use impacts who can reliably access safe drinking water. The symposium, titled "Day Zero: How Cities Run Out of Water," examined the environmental, legal, institutional, and ethical factors impacting water shortages in the United States.

From Texas A&M School of Law:

The Texas A&M Journal of Property Law held its annual symposium on February 6, welcoming esteemed legal experts and practitioners from across the country to Fort Worth. The event explored one of the most pressing concerns facing Texas cities and many other cities internationally — water crises.

This year's theme was "Day Zero: How Cities Run Out of Water," based on the title of the forthcoming book by Rhett Larson, professor of water law at Arizona State University.

Day Zero refers to the day a city runs out of water. Larson's book will offer a comparative analysis of three cities struggling to manage water: Cape Town, South Africa; Mexico City; and Chennai, India. Larson picked these cities to illustrate how resources and rainfall are not always enough to prevent water crises, and he argues that "wealth and hydrology don’t necessarily save you.”

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