The Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts is proud to host Dr Tom Cech.
Dr Cech will be delivering a lecture on Friday 15 November at 11:00 in GW164 (Gateway Building, Room 164), University of Malta Msida Campus entitled 'Water Resources in the United States and around the world: our challenges and opportunities'.
Tom Cech was born and raised on a farm near Clarkson, Nebraska, graduated from Kearney State College with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Math Education, and later received a Masters Degree in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. He was Executive Director of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District in Greeley, taught water undergraduate and graduate level water resources courses at the University of Northern Colorado and Colorado State University, and is now the Director of the One World One Water (OWOW) Center for Urban Water Education and Stewardship at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Tom wrote 'Principles of Water Resources: History, Development, Management and Policy,' published by John Wiley & Sons - currently in its 4th edition and translated into Portuguese. Tom also recently published “Introduction to Water Resources and Environmental Issues,' (co-author Dr Karrie Pennington) with Cambridge University Press and translated into Arabic, and 'Colorado Water Law for Non-Lawyers,' (co-author P. Andrew Jones) with the University Press of Colorado. He has also completed histories of the Colorado Water Conservation Board and the Colorado State Engineer’s Office with Bill McDonald and Dick Stenzel, respectively.
Tom wrote 'Principles of Water Resources: History, Development, Management and Policy,' published by John Wiley & Sons - currently in its 4th edition and translated into Portuguese. Tom also recently published “Introduction to Water Resources and Environmental Issues,' (co-author Dr Karrie Pennington) with Cambridge University Press and translated into Arabic, and 'Colorado Water Law for Non-Lawyers,' (co-author P. Andrew Jones) with the University Press of Colorado. He has also completed histories of the Colorado Water Conservation Board and the Colorado State Engineer’s Office with Bill McDonald and Dick Stenzel, respectively.