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Issue # 014 : Tofino Water Shut Off, Water Efficiency, Maude Barlow, and Water in the City Conference

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Weekly Water Events

1. Tofino, BC – City Shuts Water Off
2. Water Efficiency – Journal for Water Conservation Professionals
3. Maude Barlow – Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop Corporate Theft of the World’s Water.
4. Water In The City Conference – Victoria, BC

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1. Tofino, BC – City Shuts Water Off

TOFINO - The resort town of Tofino, one of the wettest spots on the West Coast, declared Tuesday it is running out of drinking water, prompting emergency rationing and the closure of all resorts and businesses.

Just as the beach resort was preparing for the Labour Day weekend, one of its most lucrative of the summer tourist season, Mayor John Fraser dropped the bombshell his town is running dry.

"All lodging, food service businesses are asked to shut down prior to Friday, Sept. 1, 2006, until further notice," said the announcement on the town's website. "Other commercial water users must not consume any water whatsoever."

There is still enough emergency supplies for the town's 1,700 residents. However, they are being warned to boil the water being diverted from a local creek, which the province warned is untreated, as well as water that is expected to be brought in by tanker truck from the nearby community of Ucluelet.

But that won't be enough to solve the tourist town's crisis. Fraser, a longtime advocate for digging a bigger reservoir to store some of the three metres of annual rainfall that falls during Tofino's long rainy season, believes the state of emergency could go on for weeks.

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=ea3cef72-7986-4a31-acdc-2e7596c94c57

Miro Cernetig, with files from Emily Chung, Vancouver Sun, Published: Wednesday, August 30, 2006

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://www.cknw.com/shows/blog_allen_reality_check.cfm%3Fbid%3D2528&e=10401&sig=__tQHjDWTtQJyO6euRg69bLUyS7fs=

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=ea3cef72-7986-4a31-acdc-2e7596c94c57

http://www.theolympian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060901/NEWS06/609010391

http://article.wn.com/view/2006/08/30/Water_crisis_closes_Tofino_businesses/

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/getaways/283918_tofino07.html

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2. Water Efficiency – Journal for Water Conservation Professionals

This is a must for anyone who is involved with or concerned with water. Its free so follow the link. The first issue pictured on their website is very informative and discusses efficient irrigation , urban water waste causes, water reuse, and many more hot topic. – Go get it!

Published bi-monthly, our premiere issue mails late this summer and will reach over 25,000 Water Efficiency and Conservation professionals throughout North America.

Complimentary subscriptions are available to qualified professionals—go ahead and click on the "subscribe" button to request your own copy at no cost! We'll be putting content up here frequently, so bookmark this page and come back often.

http://www.waterefficiency.net/we.html

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3. Maude Barlow – Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop Corporate Theft of the World’s Water.

Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians, Canada’s largest citizen’s advocacy organization with members and chapters across Canada as well as the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, which works to stop commodification of the world’s water. She is also a Director with the International Forum on Globalization, a San Francisco based research and education institution opposed to economic globalization. Maude is the recipient of numerous educational awards and has received honorary doctorates from six Canadian universities for her social justice work. In addition to being nominated for the “1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005” she is also the recipient of the “2005/2006 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship”. Most recently she received the prestigious “2005 Right Livelihood Award” given by the Swedish Parliament and widely referred to as “The Alternative Nobel.” She is the best-selling author or co-author of fifteen books. Her most recent publications are Too Close For Comfort: Canada’s Future Within Fortress North America; Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop Corporate Theft of the World’s Water (with Tony Clarke), now published in 40 countries; and Profit is Not the Cure: A Citizens’ Guide to Saving Medicare.

http://www.writersunion.ca/b/barlow.htm

She will also be speaking at “Water In The City Conference”, Victoria, BC – September 18 – 20, 2006 (see next link).

I am also a presenter at the conference discussing “Irrigation Without City Water”. See Tuesday afternoon session D for the session explanation.

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4. Water In The City Conference – Victoria, BC September 17 to 20th, 2006

WATER IN THE CITY CONFERENCE
SEPTEMBER 17-20, 2006
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA

A Unique Conference...

Water in the City is a unique conference that will bring together the people who make decisions about water. Not just engineers and water managers, but also municipal politicians and staff, senior governments, the development industry, consultants, the environmental community, interested citizens, youth, and commercial and institutional water users from all over North America. We are bringing people together to take a broad, visionary look at water issues facing our communities and to explore innovative approaches and practical policy alternatives necessary to solving these issues.

Conference attendees can expect to receive a complete, holistic view of the many issues affecting water in urban areas, the interactions between these issues and the need to place them front and centre as we re-think our communities in the twenty-first century. Broad areas of concern include:
• Putting water ‘front and centre’ as we plan our communities
• Emerging opportunities for re-use and recycling
• Clean safe drinking water – a key to community health
• A demand management, conservation-based approach to supply
• Wastewater as resource for a healthy community and a healthy environment
• Healthy water courses and water features – a ‘quality of life’ asset for communities
• Issues of governance, including current strengths and weaknesses as well as new directions and strategies to give water a prominent place in the decision-making process

Water in the City will provide opportunities to:
• Learn about innovative approaches to water issues
• Network with peers and leaders from all over North America
• See on-site demonstrations of creative new approaches to protect, manage and enhance our most valuable resource
• Take home practical ideas that you can apply
The conference will also feature field trips, a trade show, a partners program, pre-and post-conference education and recreational activities.

With an anticipated audience of 300–500 people, Water in the City will be held at the Victoria Conference Centre in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, September 17–20, 2006. Victoria is one of North America’s most attractive destinations. Come early—or extend your stay—and take advantage of all the region has to offer!

http://www.waterinthecityvictoria.ca/

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Thanks for reading!

Lorne Haveruk C.I.D., C.I.C., C.L.I.A
Editors, H20 News
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