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U of M expert to lecture on controlling water pollution

By Anna Stevens '10
April 18, 2008

With less than 1 percent of the world's freshwater readily accessible for direct human use, controlling toxic water pollution is crucial. Few people know that more than University of Minnesota Professor William Easter, who has spent years studying water. Easter will talk about controlling toxic water pollution during a lecture at St. Olaf College April 21.

The lecture begins at 3:30 p.m. Monday in Holland Hall 413. The event is free and open to the public.

Easter is a professor of applied economics at the University of Minnesota, where he has served on the faculty since 1970. Recent research interests include a study of water markets, an economic analysis of agricultural pollution of groundwater, and the cost of alternative methods for providing urban water supplies in developing nations. From 1991 to 1993, Easter worked with the World Bank and was senior author of their Water Resources Management Policy. Other published works of Easter's include numerous articles in journals such as Water Resource Research, Water Resources Bulletin, American Journal of Agricultural Economics and Land Economics, as well as 10 books on water resources management and research.

Contact Kari VanDerVeen at 507-786-3970 or vanderve@stolaf.edu.