AIDIS-USA MARCH 2003

GUEST-SPEAKER LUNCHEON MEETING

TOPIC:       Increasing Urban Water Supply Resources Through      Wastewater Reclamation (including the controversy over proposals for potable Reuse)
 

SPEAKER:  Professor Daniel Okun, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 

TIME:         Tuesday, March 4, 2003, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
                    

PLACE:       F Street 1889  (entrance through 19th street due to building renovation)

                  GSB Building, 6th floor, USDE meeting room

                  (this is conveniently located near the World Bank)

                  Washington, DC

RESERVATIONS:  See below
 

Please join us for the kind of thought-provoking presentation that Dr. Okun is known for, and for the opportunity to hear one of the most respected members of our profession.

This AIDIS-USA luncheon presentation will be a longer version of the presentation that Dr. Okun will be making for the World Bank's Water Week the following day (time is very limited in the World Bank program, forcing a shorter version there).   In addition to discussing nonpotable reuse, the AIDIS-USA talk will include addressing water reclamation for potable purposes.  Dr. Okun is opposed to potable reuse unless there are no other alternatives.  This controversy will not be included in the WB presentation the next day because it is not yet an issue in the developing world, but it might be of interest to engineers who work in the U.S.

Dr. Okun is Kenan Professor of Environmental Engineering, Emeritus, in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering in the School of Public Health of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   He came to UNC in 1952, was head of the department for eighteen years, retiring from teaching in 1982, while continuing with his consulting activities which had begun in 1948.  He serves consulting firms, cities, states, industry, the U.S. government, and international agencies, including the World Bank, with service in some eighty countries throughout the world.

With a doctorate from Harvard, his early research involved the first use of pure oxygen in wastewater treatment, for which he received the Eddy Award of the Water Environment Federation in 1950.  Among his many awards were the first Freese Award of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Wolman Award of Excellence from the American Water Works Association, the Fair Award of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, and the Boyd Award of the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies.

In 1973. he was the first engineer from North Carolina elected to the National Academy of  Engineering.  He served as chair of the Water Science and Technology Board of the National Research Council from 1991 to 1994. In August 1999, the Engineering News-Record, in celebration of 125 years of  publishing, honored Dr. Okun as one of the “top” 125 engineers in that period who “…singularly and collectively helped shape this nation and the world.”

Dr. Okun’s current interests are in the provision of adequate supplies of safe water for communities through watershed protection, water treatment, wastewater reclamation and reuse, and regionalization and integration of water and wastewater management.

RESERVATION DEADLINE:   3:00 PM, Friday, February 28.
Call or e-mail Mary Norman, 301-921-8249,  normanme@bv.com.
Be sure to give your name, phone number, and business affiliation, and state if you will want a box lunch at a cost of $12.00