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Creating Emory University’s
‘Revolutionary’ WaterHub
Dana Vazquez grew up
in Cleveland, Ohio near the
Cuyahoga River more than thirty
years after the polluted waterway
caught fire in 1969 and sparked
an environmental revolution that
began with the first Earth Day on
April 22, 1970.
Today, the Cuyahoga is much
cleaner — it no longer “oozes
rather than flows” with industrial
waste and sewage, as it did nearly
fifty years ago; however, like
most urban waterways, it still has
challenges.
Dana remembers that, when
she was a child, the lifeguards
would not let anyone swim in
Lake Erie, downstream of the
Student Dana Vazquez spearheaded the effort to showcase Emory
University's WaterHub at the 2017 Earth Day Water Symposium &
Career Expo.
ABOVE
THE
WATER
LINE
By Sally Bethea
Sally Bethea is the
retired executive
director of Chat
tahoochee Riverkeeper
(chattahoochee. org),
a nonprofit environ
mental organization
whose mission is to
protect and restore the
drinking water supply
for nearly four million
people.
S00
Cuyahoga, until the water had
been tested. It wasn’t until she came to Emory University in Atlanta and
took a class on environmental justice, however, that she learned the full
story about her hometown river.
Now a junior, Dana says that she became interested in sustainability
and business while in high school, which led to her major:
Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on Corporate Sustainability
and Ethics. That focus resulted in an internship with EarthShare of
Georgia — an organization that connects people to trusted nonprofit
organizations dedicated to conserving and protecting our air, land and
water.
For many years, EarthShare of Georgia has organized Earth Day
events in Adanta that have inspired and engaged businesses, individuals
and students to get involved in projects to protect our natural resources.
As one of her first intern assignments last fall, Dana was charged with
finding a new venue for Earth Day 2017: a place that would attract
a “fresh and more diverse” audience of corporations, community
members and students.
She didn’t have to look very far. The WaterHub, Emory’s
“revolutionary” on-site water recycling system, is just a short walk from
her dorm.
As Dana learned more about the eco-
engineering facility — the first system of its
kind to be installed in the United States
— and how it is reducing the university’s
water footprint, she knew that she had
found a perfect Earth Day venue. Created
and managed by Sustainable Water, the
WaterHub is capable of recycling up to
400,000 gallons per day for non-potable uses —
nearly 40% of Emory’s total campus water needs.
On April 13, EarthShare of Georgia will host the 2017 Earth Day
Water Symposium & Career Expo in partnership with Emory’s Career
Center and Office of Sustainability Initiatives. Participants can choose to
attend all day or select events of interest. Student discounts are available.
Dana is particularly excited about the Career Expo, which will
be held at the Emory Student Center from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.; it will
showcase volunteer, internship and employment opportunities with
EarthShare of Georgia’s corporate sustainers and member groups. She is
anxious for her colleagues at Emory and students from other universities to learn that positions in
the nonprofit and government sectors can be just as “glamorous” as corporate jobs.
A Leadership Luncheon in Emory’s Cox Hall will feature keynote speaker, Nicholas Mallos,
director of the Ocean Conservancy’s Trash Free Seas program. His presentation will be followed
by facilitated table discussions and the annual awards program.
WaterHub tours will be offered to attendees from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., along with informal
water industry presentations and small group discussions. A reception with a silent auction, music
and networking will close the all-day event.
On Earth Day 1970, twenty million Americans took to the streets, parks and auditoriums
to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment in massive coast-to-coast rallies and teach-
ins. Support came from Republicans and Democrats, rich and poor — as groups that had been
fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, loss of
wilderness and extinction of wildlife realized that they shared common values.
Today’s alarming proposals to eliminate or significantly reduce funding for federal and state
environmental programs make it more important than ever for each of us to help save our planet:
rally, demonstrate, learn, volunteer, celebrate, engage and support the organizations that are
defending our air, land and water.
For more information about the 2017 Earth Day Symposium & Career Expo and to register,
visit earthsharega.org. 03
14 April 2017 | DU
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