Shining a Light on Lead in Drinking Water

Authors

Stephanie Showalter Otts, University of Mississippi

Document Type

Video

Publication Date

2-22-2022

Disciplines

Environmental Law | Water Law

Abstract

An environmental attorney specializing in ocean and coastal law, Stephanie earned a B.A. in History from Pennsylvania State University and a J.D. with a joint Masters of Studies in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School. She is the Director of the National Sea Grant Law Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law, a federally funded program that provides legal research, education, and outreach services to address ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes natural resources issues to partners around the country. Among other things, Sea Grant focuses its work on water resources to help the nation meet current and future water resource challenges. Since 2018, Stephanie has been co-leading a Mississippi-based interdisciplinary team of researchers doing community-engaged research and outreach to raise awareness of the risks of lead exposure through drinking water and address data gaps in the state. The team’s innovative approach seeks to understand the problem by overlaying different disciplinary “lenses”: public health, civil engineering, law and policy, and population and development. The team’s research has revealed multi-faceted challenges that will require new policy and outreach approaches to address.

Relational Format

video recording

Recommended Citation

Otts, Stephanie Showalter, "Shining a Light on Lead in Drinking Water" (2022). TEDxUM. 78.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/tedx/78

Accessibility Status

Audio or Video Captioning