UTEP's One Water Cluster and UACJ faculty and staff Present:
March 17 - 22, 2025
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World Water Day, observed annually on March 2nd since 1993, celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water.
The UTEP One Water Cluster and faculty and staff at UACJ are inviting you to our annual celebration of World Water Day in March 2025. As we have for the past four years, we will celebrate with a week of interdisciplinary events. These events are designed to engage faculty, students, and community partners who are working on the issue of water from various perspectives. This creates a public platform to increase visibility of water scholarship and activism. It also provides an opportunity to develop new connections and working relationships on the topic. We expect to have a mixture of online and in-person events.
This year’s theme is: “Water: States and Transformations”.
Water Week 2025 will mobilize the multiple meanings of these terms to explore the role of water within the institutional frameworks that govern its access, use, and distribution. We urge contributions that interrogate how nation-states, agencies, and organizations shape or respond to global inequalities, water conservation, and emerging technologies, while emphasizing transformative solutions to the environmental and socio-political challenges of water scarcity and governance.
Special Guests
Keynote: Dr. Kim De Wolff
Dr. Kim De Wolff received her PhD in Communication and Science Studies from the University of California, San Diego. Her research connects global ecological crises to cultures of consumption and waste, taking an interdisciplinary approach to address big environmental questions about everyday life. She is co-editor of Hydrohumanities: Water Discourse and Environmental Futures, and is currently working on a monograph about the "garbage patch" of waste circulating in the North Pacific Ocean.
Environmental philosophy; environmental justice; feminist science and technology studies; new materialism; hydrohumanities
Guest Artist: Allison Orr
From sanitation workers to firefighters, power linemen to maintenance teams, Allison Orr creates award-winning choreography with the people whose work sustains our everyday lives. Inspired by the beauty and virtuosity in the movement of labor, and building on her background in anthropology and social work, Allison has honed a methodology of ethnographic choreography that engages community members as co-authors and performers in the creation of large-scale civic spectacles. Challenging audiences to expand notions of dance and performer, her dances have been performed for audiences of 60 to 6,000+.
Agenda
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9:00a - 12:30p |
World Water Week Community Organizations Tabling |
Tabling Event |
UTEP Centennial Corridor |
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1:00p – 1:45p |
Welcome: State and Transformations of Water Week |
Opening Remarks |
President Dr. Heather Wilson (UTEP) Mexican Consul in El Paso Mauricio Ibarra Commissioner Adriana Reséndez (CILA) Principal Engineer Ramon Macias (IBWC) Rector Dr. Daniel Constandse Cortez (UACJ) Rector Luis Rivera Campos (UACH)
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2:00p – 3:00p
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Curious about where your water comes from? Learn about current water issues in our region! |
Discussion Panel
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Dr. Girisha Ganjegunte (TAMU) Marty Loya Scott Reinert (EPW)
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3:00p – 4:30p |
Challenges and Collaborative Solutions: Migration, Diplomacy, and Water Management in Bilateral Relations |
Discussion Panel
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Dr. Carmen Navarro (UACH) Moderated by: Dr. Kenith E. Meissner II UTEP IDRB Auditorium 2.204 |
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7:00p - 8:00p |
SC/Audubon Meeting: The Urban Waters Federal Partnership: Revitalizing Urban Watersheds and Underserved Communities |
Presentation |
America Alvarez Rob Henrion UTEP Centennial Museum
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9:00a - 10:30a |
How Water Moves: The Way of |
Discussion Panel
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Allison Orr
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10:00a – 10:30a
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Water Week Painting Exhibit |
Exhibit |
Centro Cultural Las |
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10:40a – 12:00p |
Water Models and Technology for |
Research |
Dr. Hamidreza Sharifan UTEP IDRB Auditorium 2.204 |
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1:30p – 3:00p |
Water Governance and |
Short Talks
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Dr. Jorge Antonio Breceda UTEP Bioscience Auditorium |
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3:00p – 4:10p |
Digital Transformation and |
Discussion
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Dr. Carmen Navarro (UACH) Moderated by: Luis A. Garnica Chavira UTEP Bioscience Auditorium |
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4:20p – 6:00p Cancelled due to dust storm. |
Advancing Transboundary |
Discusion Panel
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Ing. Manuel Herrera (JMAS) Moderated by: Verónica González Instituto de Ciencias |
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8:30a - 9:00a |
Poster Participant Breakfast |
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UTEP IDRB Back Foyer |
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9:00a - 9:30a |
Water is Torah: Swimming (and Singing) in the Sea of Talmud |
Presentation and Song Performance |
Dr. Larry Lesser (UTEP)
UTEP IDRB Visualization |
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9:30a – 10:00a |
Water Tales Reading |
Book Reading |
Liz Treviño (UACJ) |
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10:00a – 11:30a
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La de(limitación) de los cuerpos |
Presentation |
Erasto López López (UACJ) Instituto de Ciencias |
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9:30a – 11:30a |
Student and Faculty Poster |
Posters
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UTEP IDRB Back Foyer |
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12:30p – 1:30p |
From Scarcity to Abundance: |
Keynote
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Dr. Kim De Wolff (UNT) UTEP Bioscience
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2:00p - 3:00p |
Desert Wetlands: Restoring River |
Presentation |
Sergio Samaniego (UTEP) John Sproul (UTEP) UTEP Bioscience |
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3:00p – 4:00p |
Wetlands in the Desert - Heritage |
Discussion Panel |
Mike Gaglio UTEP Bioscience |
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4:00p – 4:30p |
Environmental History of the Rio |
Presentation |
Gabriela Montano (UACJ) Instituto de Ciencias |
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5:30p – 5:45p |
The River Tells Its Story, Against |
Short Film |
Maria del Rosario Perez
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5:45p – 7:00p |
Water is Love: Ripples of |
Screening |
Rubin Center for the |
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9:00a - 10:40a |
Water Culture: Sustainability |
Presentation |
Alberto Ortega (JMAS) Instituto de Ciencias |
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9:00a - 10:30a |
Collaborative Art: The Singing Tree of Restoration and Water Resilience |
Art Workshop |
Fernanda Lugo Laurie Marshall (UTC) UTEP IDRB Auditorium 2.204 |
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10:40a – 11:30a
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Breaking New Ground: Exploring |
Presentation |
Irazema Solis Rojas (EPW) Christina Montoya-Halter (EPW) UTEP IDRB Auditorium 2.204 |
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11:30a – 12:15p |
Hydrology and Water Resources |
Presentation
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Laila Sturgis (NMT) UTEP IDRB Auditorium 2.204 |
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12:00p - 2:00p |
Oleo Painting Workshop |
Art Workshop |
Elel Parra (UACJ) |
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1:00p – 7:00p |
Responsible Water Consumption |
Exhibit |
Gloria Guadalupe Vázquez IADA Galería del edificio Z |
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1:00p - 1:50p |
Collaborative Water Futures: |
Presentation |
Gregory Holliday (50L Home) UTEP Bioscience |
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2:00p – 3:30p |
Water Management and |
Short Talks |
David Sanchez Navarro Instituto de Ciencias |
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3:30p – 4:30p |
The Beneficial Use of Water for |
Presentation |
Christopher Hall Virtual |
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4:30p – 5:00p |
Grey Water Reuse Business Model |
Presentation |
Georgina Riosvelasco (UACJ) Instituto de Ciencias |
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6:00p – 8:00p |
WATER MOVES |
Performance |
Allison Orr, Melissa
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Time |
session |
Format |
Details |
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9:00a - 11:00a |
Acuarelas Workshop – Morning |
Art Workshop |
Marco A. González Beltrán Centro Cultural Las |
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12:00p - 2:00p |
Acuarelas Workshop – Afternoon |
Art Workshop |
Marco A. González Beltrán Centro Cultural Las |
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4:00p – 6:00p |
Clay Workshop |
Art Workshop |
Elel Parra (UACJ) Centro Cultural Las |
| 6:00p - 7:00p | Water Week Painting Exhibit Closing |
Exhibit |
Centro Cultural Las |
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9:00a - 10:00a |
Community Dance Offering at The |
Performance |
Sandra Paola Lopez (UTEP) Rio Bosque Wetlands Park |
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10:00a - 10:15a |
Water Moves Recap |
Performance |
Allison Orr/Forklift Rio Bosque Wetlands Park |
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10:15a – 11:45a |
Rio Bosque Workshop |
Workshop |
Dr. Elizabeth Walsh Rio Bosque Wetlands Park |
All times are shown in Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) - El Paso, TX / Ciudad Juárez
