Ottawa
Did you know that the average Canadian consumes over 300 litres of water per day? That’s just the water you can actually see, e.g., bathing, drinking, cleaning dishes, not water used in other processes.
Water is not something Ottawa citizens can take advantage of, despite the City’s natural endowment of beautiful rivers. The City has already taken important steps to address water consumption, but as with many sustainability challenges, this is very much a work in progress and there is room for improvement and room to use Ottawa’s learning to share with other municipalities across Canada.
In the spirit of cooperation and collaboration, I invite all interested citizens and people with an interest in join this group, and also become involved with the Sierra Club of Canada’s Ottawa Group (meetings on the first Monday of each month at Sierra Club Canada’s National Office at #1 Nicholas Street, Suite 412.
I also invite anyone with a passion for conversation and advocacy, and a technical background in sciences or engineering, to help lead the Ottawa Group in this initiative.
Fundraising Event, July 20
To help kick off this campaign in the Atlantic region and fundraise for its continued success this Summer, the Sierra Club of Canada- Atlantic Chapter in partnership the Nova Scotia Pulbic Interest Research Group (NSPIRG) with will be hosting a movie screening fundraiser of the film Blue Gold: The World Water Wars (90 mins) on July 20th in room 224 in the Dalhousie SUB (6136 University Avenue). The doors will open at 6:30 and the film will begin at 7. We will be asking for donations at the door.
City proposal could raise water rates 'modestly' - Ottawa Citizen
Thought I'd share some news...
Just read this article in the Citizen today about the City's new approach to pricing water:
Also, here is one short commentary from David Reevely (a Citizen reporter).
