Adamski Represents Water for People

September 25, 2007

Bob Adamski (right) touring the water system

(Harrisburg, Pa.) Gannett Fleming’s Robert Adamski, P.E., spoke at the University of South Florida's Dr. Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Solutions on Sept. 12, 2007. Adamski was part of a presentation titled “The World’s Water Crisis and How You Can Help Solve It.”

Adamski serves as a special advisor to the United Nations for Water for People, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing safe drinking water to impoverished people around the world. His remarks focused on how Water for People helps to improve quality of life by supporting sustainable drinking water and sanitation and hygiene education projects. Adamski also outlined steps that ordinary citizens can take to address water issues in developing countries.

Adamski, a former Water for People director, also recently visited Malawi, Africa, with his wife, Janet, and other Water for People representatives to see firsthand the progress of a Water for People project funded by the Rotary Clubs of the Pacific Northwest.

The Adamskis met with the Presbyterian Church's Synod of Livingstonia and Jim McGill, a missionary in Mzuzu, before heading to see the water project in Livingstonia. The gravity-fed tube system built by the villagers will replace and expand a system that was installed more than 100 years ago for The University of Livingstonia. The completed project will provide water to the university, a hospital, primary and secondary schools, and nine villages.

Based in Gannett Fleming's Locust Valley, N.Y., office, Adamski is the vice president of municipal infrastructure programs. He provides professional consulting services to municipal water and wastewater system owners in the areas of facility operations, maintenance, and utility management.

For more information about Water for People, please visit www.waterforpeople.org.

For more information about The Patel Center, please visit www.patelcenter.usf.edu/.