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2018 Symposium: Can Barbados Manage a Day Zero When the Taps Run Dry?

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SEMINAR ON WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

The Barbados Town Planning Society hosted a seminar on Friday 22 June 2018 entitled “Can Barbados Manage a Day Zero When the Taps Run Dry?”. It was held at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel from 9:00am to 1:00pm.

Can Barbados Manage a Day Zero When the Taps Run Dry?

The seminar explored the extent of the problem facing us, measured that we need to take to address the situation and what the town planning system and the development industry can do to assist.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 

  • Professor Adrian Cashman – University of the West Indies
  • Dr. John Mwansa – Barbados Water Authority
  • Mr Andrew Hutchinson –  Stantec Consulting Caribbean Ltd.
SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILM
  • “City Without Water” – Shows how Cape Town is managing its Day Zero

New Publication – Delivering Better Development: The role of the urban and rural planner

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The RTPI will be celebrating this year’s World Town Planning Day (WTPD) with sister institutes and planners across the globe with a big programme of activity and the publication of a vital new guide, Delivering Better Development: The role of the urban and rural planner.

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Aimed at non-planners including politicians, community leaders, architects, engineers, environmentalists and those interested in studying planning, the guide, written in conjunction with the Global Planners Network (GPN) , sets out a very powerful case for the part planning and planners can play in helping to tackle some of key challenges we face globally.

For more information, please visit the RTPI’s website by clicking here.