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 Items tagged: Bob SandfordItems Found: 8Minimal Public Support for Water Infrastructure InvestmentMarch 22, 2012 - 10:23 am More than 80 per cent of the 2,428 Canadians RBC recently surveyed feel there’s no need for major, immediate investment in their community’s drinking water/wastewater facilities. According to this year's Canadian Water Attitudes Study, released today (World Water Day), Canadians don’t understand... Water Un-frastructureFebruary 14, 2012 - 10:30 am The most immediately compelling argument we have in support of water policy reform in Canada is what hydrologists describe as the loss of hydrological stationarity. While few outside the fields of hydrology and climatology presently understand the meaning of stationarity, it won’t be long before the... Categories: Blog Book Giveaway: Ethical WaterDecember 2, 2011 - 12:09 pm This new book by Bob Sandford and Merrell-Ann Phare, two of Canada's most authoritative experts on water issues, redefines our relationship with fresh water and outlines the steps society will have to take to ensure the sustainability of our supply for future generations. In ten years, what will be... Categories: Blog Most Canadians Have "No Concept" of the Real Value of Water: StudyMarch 21, 2011 - 7:04 am While the majority of Canadians (55 per cent) continue to believe that fresh water is the country's most important natural resource and say they are trying reasonably hard to conserve it (78 per cent), almost three quarters (72 per cent) admit to flushing items down the toilet that they could dispose... The Montreal RundownMarch 31, 2010 - 9:09 am Phew. In just 1.5 days, expert panels at McGill University’s Canadian Water: Towards a New Strategy conference (March 25-26) managed to touch on practically every serious water issue Canada (and in some cases, the world) is facing today. The structure of the sold-out event, which placed some 250... Categories: Blog Canadian Conservation Efforts Declining: StudyMarch 17, 2010 - 8:45 am Canadians' efforts to save water appear to be going down the drain despite their reported concern about its availability, according to the third annual Canadian Water Attitudes Study, commissioned by RBC and Unilever and endorsed by the Canadian Partnership Initiative of the United Nations Water for... FLOW Brings Attention to Transboundary Issues on IJC CentennialJune 4, 2009 - 1:31 pm Boundary Waters Week (June 5-14) will celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Boundary Waters Treaty with a series of events in Niagara Falls, but the Forum for Leadership on Water (FLOW) is using the occasion to ask the federal government to invest in Canadian water security. FLOW wants feds to provide... Categories: International, National, News Poll Reveals Canadians Over-Confident in Supply of Fresh WaterMarch 19, 2008 - 3:12 pm Canada may be on the brink of a fresh water crisis and unless Canadians start taking notice, our economy will suffer, concludes a poll commissioned by Unilever, RBC and the Canadian Partnership Initiative of the UN Water for Life Decade. The Unilever RBC Poll on Water Perceptions shows that 80 per... Categories: News |
