Tag Archives: water

Maude Barlow Water Tour

Join Us! I know it’s late notice for many, but Maude Barlow – Canada’s Water Warrior – will be presenting her ideas about the situation with the Great Lakes at the Aeolian Theatre in London on May 30, 2012. Tell all your friends! Other dates and locations: May 28 – Township of Tiny May 29 [...]

Is a Global Water Crisis Coming?

From this site, we get a pretty scary list of 25 reasons why there should be concern for the water in our world: Every single day, we are getting closer to a horrific global water crisis. This world was blessed with an awesome amount of fresh water, but because of our foolishness it is rapidly [...]

Great Lakes United Plea

Great Lakes United does its best to educate the millions of people that live off Great Lakes water. In a recent plea, they urge diplomats from Canada and the US to include a number of essential requests in the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, including the following: A visionary strategy for the 21st Century and [...]

Globe Piece on Drinking Water

On June 30, the day that I finished the SHOME Swim, Andre Picard of the Globe and Mail published a piece questioning how safe our drinking water is. Original link can be found here. Some quotes of note: Every day there up nearly 1,000 boil-water adviseries in Canadian communities Few resources are being committed in [...]

Maude Barlow in Penticton, May 19, 2011

Maude Barlow, water advocate for the Council of Canadians, was in Penticton last night presenting some views on international water issues.  Maude Barlow has been a lead advocate for the public protection of water rights and has been encouraging the UN to declare that water is a human right.  More about these efforts can be [...]

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