Water and energy

Several speakers from UC Davis are on the program for “The Water-Energy Connection” another in a series of community forums sponsored by the Valley Action Climate Center and the city of Davis.

The forum, open to the public, is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. March 25 in the Community Chamber at City Hall, 23 Russell Blvd.

Organizers said the forum will explore innovative approaches to water conservation, not only to save water but to cut back on the amount of energy that is needed to keep Californians supplied with water, and then to clean it after it is used.

The UC Davis speakers: Frank Loge, director, Center for Water Energy Efficiency; and Professor Emeritus, George Tchobanoglous, Harold Leverenz and Kendra Olmos, all of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Lecture on health reform

The inaugural Sheffrin Lecture in Public Policy is set for March 30, with a talk on “Health Reform in the United States: How We Got Here and Where Are We Going?”

The speaker is economic professor Jonathan Gruber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The new Sheffrin lectures are made possible by a gift from UC Davis economic professor Steven M. Sheffrin, former dean of Social Sciences, and his wife, Anjali.

Gruber’s talk is scheduled for 6 p.m. March 30 in the AGR Room at the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center; a reception is set for 5 p.m. in the alumni center’s library. The reception and the talk are free and open to the public.

Sponsors: Levine Family Fund; Herbert A. Young Society; Center for History, Society and Culture; Department of Economics; Economy, Justice and Society; and Institute of Governmental Affairs.

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