NORMAL — Illinois State University will celebrate World Water Day with a lecture from Zach Welcker at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 21.
Welcker
Welcker is the legal director of For Love of Water, or FLOW, a nonprofit organization with the mission to ensure the waters of the Great Lakes Basin are healthy, public and protected. He spent more than a decade representing Indigenous tribes in the Pacific Northwest on water, fisheries and other natural resource issues.Â
The lecture, titled "Tribal Sovereignty and Water: The Long View on Water Use and Management," will be held in the Circus Room at the Bone Student Center.
The event is free and open to the public.Â
Aondover Tarhule, interim president of Illinois State University, gives remarks after his appointment to the position at the ISU Board of Trustees meeting on Feb. 17, 2023.
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