In the Company of Stewards April 2025
April 15, 2025 @ 7:00PM — 8:00PM Mountain Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar
Hydrating Human Rights
Virtually every human rights challenge facing humanity as an underappreciated connection to water policy, including mass migration, racism, gender inequality, climate change, armed conflict, and pandemics. Focusing on water security as a principal public policy aim can therefore have broad impacts across all areas of human rights. On April 15, Dr. Rhett Larson will discuss how water connects each of these areas, and the potential risks and benefits of recognizing a human right to water.
Meet our presenter:
Rhett Larson is the Richard Morrison Professor of Water Law at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. He is also a senior research fellow with the Kyl Center for Water Policy at ASU's Morrison Institute for Public Policy. Professor Larson’s research and teaching interests are in property law, environmental law, and natural resource law, in particular, domestic and international water law and policy. He serves on the Arizona Mexico Commission Board of Directors, Arizona’s Water Infrastructure Finance Authority, and is legal counsel to the Arizona Municipal Water Users Association. He leads a project to improve water supplies for refugee host communities in Lebanon and Jordan. Professor Larson was a visiting professor and Fulbright Scholar at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, a PLuS Alliance visiting fellow with the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and a Lady Davis Fellow and visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Just Add Water: Solving the World’s Problems Using its Most Precious Resource (Oxford University Press, 2020), and his forthcoming book from Cambridge University Press is Day Zero: How Cities Run Out of Water. Professor Larson received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Chicago and his Master of Science from the University of Oxford.
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