<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news-events/stories/2011articles/july2011/70111melosi.php" dsn="news"><featured/><top-stories/><homepage/><pubDate>08/07/2017 08:00:26 PM</pubDate><title>UH Professor Martin Melosi Examines Water History in Houston and the U.S.</title><subtitle/><description>In the 1970s, when environmental issues focused on nature and the wilderness, Martin Melosi, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Professor of History and director of the Center for Public History, University of Houston, felt cities were being left out of the environmental discourse.</description><author>Melissa Carroll</author><author-email>mcarroll@uh.edu</author-email><author-phone/><image/><categories>People,Research,Top Stories</categories></item>