Twenty-three chapters participated in World Water Day activities this year. Thank you for your commitment to water justice!
Chapters participating this year included:
- BRITISH COLUMBIA-YUKON: Cowichan Valley, Kamploops, Kelowna, Mid-Island-Nanaimo, Nelson, Port Alberni, Vancouver, Victoria, Williams Lake.
- PRAIRIES: Calgary, Edmonton, Prince Albert, Red Deer.
- ONTARIO-QUEBEC: Barrie, Guelph, Hamilton, London, Ottawa, Peterborough, Toronto, Waterloo.
- ATLANTIC: Saint John, South Shore.
To read more about the kind of actions chapters undertook across the country, please see a list with fuller descriptions at http://canadians.org/water/issues/World_Water_Day/actions.html.
In the news
The Prince Albert Herald reports, “In recognition of World Water Day, the Prince Albert chapter of the Council of Canadians set out to learn more about Prince Albert’s water situation. In advance of an event recognizing the day, on Thursday, a letter was sent to Mayor Jim Scarrow inquiring about Prince Albert’s water supply situation. During Thursday’s event at the John M. Cuelenaere Library, Council of Canadians member Jim Bahr read and responded to these answers. …In other Council of Canadians news, member Rick Sawa read from a letter from Premier Brad Wall regarding the possibility of a nuclear waste repository being built in Saskatchewan. ‘We have no intention of becoming a project developer of a nuclear waste management facility,’ the letter reads. ‘While our government respects the fact that certain communities are exploring the possibility of such development, it is not our impression that there exists broad-based provincial support… Therefore such a repository is not a priority for our government.'”
And Toronto’s NOW magazine reports, “It’s a basic life ingredient, but water gets no respect, even though we’re sitting on the edge of a fresh water system that’s the envy of the world. The T.O. chapter of the Council of Canadians hosts Shared Water, Shared Legacy, Saturday (March 24), a forum discussing the Melancthon mega-quarry, water privatization, First Nations water issues, the Great Lakes and more. 10 am to 4 pm. Pwyc. United Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. torontochapter@gmail.com.”
Council of Canadians chapter activists are encouraged to share news clippings, photos and other reports of their World Water Day activities. Chapters will next be encouraged to participate in Blue October actions, http://canadians.org/blog/?p=11683. Last year, 16 countries participated in Blue October activities.
