Standing ovation for Opening General Session

摘要

The Oct. 17 Opening General Session brought attendees to their feet. Together, keynote speakers Rita Colwell and Doc Hendley offered a balance of technical information and inspirational anecdotes. Colwell, the 2010 Stockholm Water Prize recipient and distinguished professor at both the University of Maryland (College Park) and Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), described her groundbreaking research on the identification of the copepods as vectors for cholera and the development of a local filtration technique using saris. Hendley described his emotional journey of learning about the water crisis and building his nonprofit organization Wine To Water (Boone, N.C.). For more detailed coverage of the Opening General Session, see the December issue of WEF Highlights at www.wef.org/highlights.