Selwyn Times: March 21, 2017

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Annual debate to discuss
water as a global issue
Always stimulating, the annual Kim Hill
debate at Lincoln University is scheduled for
this Thursday evening. The topic – ‘Water, a
global issue affecting New Zealand’.
This years panelists are Bryan Jenkins,
Ken Hughey, Peter Townsend and Brent
Clothier.
Kim Hill will chair the Thursday evening panel.
Bryan Jenkins
Dr Jenkins is Professor, Strategic Water
Management at the Waterways Centre for
Freshwater Management, a joint centre
of the University of Canterbury and
Lincoln University. The centre provides
undergraduate and postgraduate courses
in water resources
management and coordinates
research
across the universities
in water resource issues.
Prior to this
Dr Jenkins was
chief executive
of Environment
Canterbury for more
than seven years.
He was responsible
for the introduction
of collaborative
governance concepts
to the regional
council including the
development of the
Canterbury Water
Management Strategy.
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Canterbury, he was
chief executive of the
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has also had more than 20 years’ experience
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He has a PhD in environmental planning
from Stanford University, a masters and first
class honours degrees in civil engineering
from Adelaide University and a master of
administration from Monash University.
Ken Hughey
Dr Ken Hughey is Professor of
Environmental Management at Lincoln
University and Chief Science Advisor
for DOC, Wellington. He is on the board
of the Waihora Ellesmere Trust and is
a foundation member of the Hurunui
Waiau Water Zone Committee. Dr Hughey
specialises in state of the environment
reporting, river flow needs for birds,
collaborative approaches to water resource
management and sustainable tourism.
Peter Townsend
Peter Townsend is the chief executive of
the Canterbury Employers' Chamber of
Commerce and has held that position since
1996.
He holds several directorships including
chair of the New Zealand Defence Employer
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He was a member of the CERA Transitional
Advisory Board until December 2015
when it was terminated and in February
2016 Peter was appointed as a director of
Ōtākaro Ltd, the new Crown company
established to deliver key anchor projects
and precincts in Christchurch.
Mr Townsend has a BSc (Hons) and a
post Graduate Diploma in Business and
in May 2014 Lincoln University made him
an Honorary Doctor of Commerce for his
services to business.
Brent Clothier
Brent Clothier is group leader of Systems
Modelling within Plant & Food Research
and is based in Palmerston North. Mr
Clothier is also an adjunct professor in
the School of Earth & Environment of the
University of Western Australia, an adjunct
professor in the New Zealand Life Cycle
Management Centre of Massey University
and an adjunct professor in the School of
Agriculture & the Environment at Lincoln
University.
Dr Clothier has a BSc (Hons) from
Canterbury University, and a PhD and DSc
from Massey University. He is a Fellow of
the Royal Society of New Zealand, and the
Zealand Soil Science Society and a Fellow
of three foreign science academies: the Soil
Science Society of America, the American
Agronomy Society, and the American
Geophysical Union.
He has published over 280 scientific
papers on water-related topics and is
editor-in-chief of the international journal
Agricultural Water Management.
He has been, or is involved in waterrelated
aid and development projects in the
Pacific and Indian Oceans, the Middle East
and Africa.
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