Jacob Tompkins (140p) – Managing Director, Waterwise UK
In 2010 the United Kingdom has experienced the driest first six months of the year for 71 years. Waterwise is asking everyone to do their bit to help save water. Simple changes in behaviour can help ensure there is enough water for everyone in the future.
Alison Wheatley (150p) – Voices for Our Planet
Her Blog is all about giving a greater voice to the people and groups who are working to find or implement solutions to our planet’s problems. Many people are thinking up innovative solutions and managing charitable efforts to help make a positive difference for our planet.
Purple pipe programs can now provide local government meaningful opportunity to take the next step in implementing water conservation safely, without bearing capital costs or increasing operational expenses. And it can start with their next building permit application.
We have a lot of water on the West Coast; why should we bother with conservation? While we like to think that water is inexpensive, we forget the huge cost of water infrastructure. If we can reduce our consumption, we might be able to delay big bills or even eliminate the need for them.
The act would establish a framework that is intended to drive innovation, create economic opportunities, sustain water infrastructure and conserve Ontario’s water.
Kirk Stinchcombe:
Effective conservation-oriented water pricing can also help reconcile growing communities with the health of local watersheds and engage individuals and businesses to change their behaviour and begin reducing their water footprints.
Colwyn Sunderland – BCWWA President 2009-2010
What we can achieve is limited only by how well we can work together to identify, develop and apply our talents, and by how effectively we can engage the public that relies on them.
Bob Sandford (Chair, Canadian Partnership Initiative):
There is a disconnect between attitudes towards water conservation and what people are actually doing. This should be a huge concern, given that the long-term supply of this presource is already at risk in many parts of the country.
Bob Sandford (120p)
This event helps launch the “Future of Water Law and Governance in Canada” – a new program at the POLIS Water Sustainability Project. Bob will share his experiences as they relate to current efforts to modernize the BC Water Act.
Bob Sandford (120p)
We are vulnerable to our own institutional approaches to managing infrastructure. There is typically no incentive for municipalities and regions to operate and maintain water infrastructure efficiently.
