The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s fifth annual Water Law, Policy and Science Conference will focus on water quality issues important to Nebraska and the Great Plains. It will be April 22-23, 2008 in Lincoln and will feature a lecture by William Reilly, former head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

This conference will survey a broad array of water quality topics, including impacts of biofuels and nanotechnology and emerging contaminants, quality impacts on land values, and a review of the value of atrazine. New this year is a one day track on introduction to water law. More information and registration is online at http://watercenter.unl.edu/WaterConference/WConf.asp

Patricia M. Kane, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University

Bruce Babbitt, former Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona, will replace William K. Reilly as the final lecturer in the 2007-2008 E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues. Babbitt's lecture will be "Nebraska's Water Future: Feast or Famine?"