Outreach
The Water Sustainability Project team continues to emphasize a strategic public policy advocacy role and is communicating project research widely.
POLIS' Water-Energy work was featured in Alternatives' New Energy Issue.
This document answers the call of the Premier of British Columbia for citizens to become part of the solution for securing our water future. It outlines key minimum steps critical to protecting this precious resource. This statement of expectations was developed through study and consultation, and the undersigned groups urge the BC government to take swift and decisive action on the issues described below.
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Awash With Potential: Ontario's Provincial Water Conservation and Efficiency Strategy
Check out two articles by the Water Sustainability Project team in the September/October 2009 Issue of the Canadian Water Treatment Magazine.
A survey by Ecojustice, a leading a group of B.C. water experts urges politicians to address the public’s well-founded concerns about water safety and shortages.
A news story about our April 2009 Waterlution workshop on watershed governance in the Comox Valley in the Comox Valley Record
A commentary on water policy in British Columbia by Linda Nowlan, Randy Christensen, Oliver Brandes and Craig Orr.
A commentary on Ontario's New Green Energy Act by Carol Maas and Nancy Goucher.
A commentary on infrastructure spending in the February 2009 Federal budget by Glen Pleasance, Oliver M Brandes and Jim Bruce
GHG and Energy Co-benefits of Water Conservation
A presentation by Carol Maas at MOE's Water Thinkers Series, May 2008, and CWWA's Window on Ottawa, December 2008, and CWWA's 2nd National Water Efficiency Conference, November 2008.
The Times Colonist featured a commentary written by Oliver M Brandes and Linda Nowlan on British Columbia's Living Water Smart Plan released in June 2008.
