Tonight at the DePaul University Museum (2350 N. Kenmore), the public is invited to learn more about freshwater scarcity and “the simple ways people can use water wisely.”

In addition to Debra Shore, Water Commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, the forum will feature Sarah Dunn and Martin Fielsen of UrbanLab, the winners of the History Channel’s 2007 “City of the Future” competition.

Dunn and Felsen propose that the city switch over to a decentralized all-natural water treatment and recycling system that would double the city’s parkland. A series of 50 “eco-boulevards” spaced every half mile from Rogers Park to Roseland would run east-west from Lake Michigan to the subcontinental divide between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins at about Harlem Avenue—thin green ribbons running across the city that would replace pavement with green space, greenhouses, and wetland for the treatment of waste and storm water.

Check out the Chicago Reader for a more in depth look at Chicago’s engineering pair.

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