Drinking water supplies to the Lower Mainland need careful protection. This means higher standards with respect to watershed ecosystems, filtration, treatment, and delivery systems.

P r e s s  R e l e a s e  H i s t o r y  P r e s s  R e l e a s e s

• (14.Feb.02) Vancouver Watersheds should not be opened for new highway to Whistler Olympics
  
  
• (23.Jan.02) Vancouver enters 16th day of drinking water advisory
  
  
• (09.Jan.02) Vancouverites urged to boil drinking water
  
  
• (01.Nov.01) New GVRD water index recognizes turbidity hazard in water supply
  
  
• (22.Feb.01) SPEC backs medical health officer Peck's call for protection of drinking watersheds
  
  
• (19.Feb.01) SPEC calls Forest Minister Wilson's plan for logging in watersheds - "stab in the back."
  
  
• (24.Jan.01) Environmentalists give thumbs down on Dosanjh's Drinking Water Protection Plan
  
  
• (13.Dec.99) SPEC to Cooperate with GVWD on No-Logging Policy for Vancouver Water Supply
  

W h a t  Y o u  C a n  D o  W h a t  Y o u  C a n  D o

• A no logging policy is now in place for drinking supply watersheds serving Vancouver. To ask that drinking watersheds are designated throughout the province, write a letter to your MLA. To find your MLA's name and address, call Inquiry BC at 1-800-663-7867
  
  

• Event Alert: March 12 - The Myth of Abundance: Canada’s endangered freshwater resources

L i n k s  a n d  O n l i n e  A r t i c l e s  L i n k s  A r t i c l e s

• (15.Apr.02) SPEC Submission to GVRD Watershed management Plan. SPEC commends the Greater Vancouver Water District Administration Board and the Greater Vancouver Regional District for its November 1999 resolution to protect the Greater Vancouver watersheds ins, and the recommendation by the GVWD’s Water Committee on February 8, 2002 to cancel the Amending Indenture.
  
  
• (website) Drinking Water Review Panel: Final Report (13.Feb.02) Ministry of Water Land and Air Protection
  
  
• Background: The GVRD water committee meets
  
  
• A critique of the GVRD's Ecological Inventory Project Annex and Analysis Reports by Will Koop
  
  
• Transcript of the October 15, 1999 Greater Vancouver Regional District Water Committee Meeting Regarding the submission of three report presentations and the subsequent discussion on the Greater Vancouver Watersheds Ecological Inventory Process.
  
  
• "Go Drink Your Cappuccinos" - The Great Watershed Campaign of '99 by Heather Mahony
  
  
• (10.Sep.99) Transcript of the GVRD's Water Committee Meeting Regarding Agenda Item 4.2 on the Amending Indenture
  

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