by krpleas | Mar 15, 2021 | Blog
Water is a clear substance that we cannot live without. Despite the amount of water we may believe is in our environment, only 2.5% is fresh water. Of that, two-third is locked in polar ice caps and glaciers. The remaining 0.5% is usually used for agriculture,...
by krpleas | Feb 15, 2021 | Inside The Water Center
By Meg Kramer, Director of Strategic Development The Water Center at Penn With 2020 behind us, 2021 offers an opportunity to look forward to brighter horizons, new beginnings, and hopefully, a time when we can reconvene in person with friends, colleagues, and...
by krpleas | Feb 15, 2021 | Faculty Opinions
By Dorit Aviv, Ph.D Waterfront communities are the most susceptible to climate change and to extreme weather events. Beyond the risk of flooding itself, centralized water and energy systems are prone to failure under dynamic storm conditions; the connectivity of...
by krpleas | Feb 15, 2021 | Alumni Views
By: Albert J. Slap, ’71 On April 22, 1970, as a junior at Penn, I attended the first Earth Day celebration in Philadelphia. On a cool and breezy spring day, tens of thousands of young people gathered in Fairmont Park to listen to Senator Ed Muskie, the poet Allen...
by krpleas | Feb 15, 2021 | Student Voices
(Photo credit: Emma Lee/WHYY) By Rupika Ketu, Master of Environmental Studies Student and Jaydee Edwards, PhD Student Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences University of Pennsylvania It is becoming increasingly apparent that microplastics are among the most...
