At K-H Library: Global Water Issues with Jen Fleckenstein of Pure Water for the World, who will present the Watermark film, and Dot Helling who will talk about the Blue Planet project.
Jen Fleckenstein is co-owner of Clear Water Filtration, Warren, VT, and Vice President of Pure Water for the World, Rutland, VT. Jen is passionate about local and global water issues, having seen how improved water quality helps everyone lead healthier lives. Jen’s business has been providing water treatment solutions to homes and businesses throughout Vermont for over 35 years. Clear Water has been an active corporate sponsor of Pure Water for the World since 2012 and an advocate for clean water initiatives throughout the state, which inspired the creation of the film, What’s Your Watermark? Jen believes water is a basic human right, and each individual has a responsibility to understand and protect our most precious natural resource through prevention, treatment, and reducing consumption of single-use bottle water.
Dot Helling is a retired attorney having worked in private practice in Montpelier for 30 years. During that time she served as Washington County and Vermont Bar Association President and an acting judge in the Small Claims and District Courts. In 2007 Dot ran around the world as a member of the Blue Planet Run to raise awareness of and funds for the worldwide drinking water crisis. Since retiring from law, Dot has been spending winters in Colorado and returns home to serve as a member of the Vermont Clean Water Coalition, of which she is a founder, and to help build a passive solar house for Central Vermont for Habitat for Humanity Inc. Dot also writes a column for the Bridge newspaper and is engaged with the Montpelier Tree Board and other organizations working in areas of forest preservation and the control of invasive species.

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