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WWW Party on World Water Day

Sandra Walsh — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:33:44 +0000

WWW members are invited to party on World Water Day!

March 22nd at 8:00 pm
Wellington County Brewery
[950 Woodlawn Rd West]

Join your friends for a fine evening of music and dancing.

Tickets are $10 each and can be reserved by sending us an email. Proceeds to local water protection initiatives.

World Water Day is March 22nd

Sandra Walsh — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:02:32 +0000

“SAVE OUR WATER” RALLY

Saturday March 22, 2008
St. George’s Square, Wyndham Street, Guelph
12 noon – 1pm

Join us for this family friendly water awareness rally featuring:

Local politicians
Community environmental groups
Guest speakers
James Gordon and The Funky Mamas performing!

Supported by: Wellington Water Watchers, Council of Canadians, Making Waves (WLU students), Guelph Urban Forest Friends, Guelph Students for Environmental Change, Guelph Civic League, Funky Mamas, James Gordon, International Oil Working Group, Guelph Peace Community, Guelph International Resource Centre, Waterlooians, Brant Avenue Public School Environmental Club,… Read the rest

Scam of the Century

Sandra Walsh — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:30:47 +0000

Music to inspire…

Tell us your Dry Well Story!

Sandra Walsh — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:28:48 +0000

The WWW is pleased to launch a research project looking at low water incidents in the county.

Please send us you story to WWW along with your name and address so that we can map your well in relation to the large water takers in your area, further reinforcing our case for better water governance locally and at the provincial level. You can email your story to us at info@wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca, or you can add a comment to this post.

Why is Guelph’s Tap Water better than Bottled Water?

Sandra Walsh — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:14:36 +0000

It costs over 1,000 times less than bottled water, and is delivered to a tap near you.

Flavoured bottled water often has potassium sorbate added as a preservative. This absorbs UV light and interferes with waste water treatment.

Guelph’s tap water comes from the same aquifer as Nestlé Pure Life Aberfoyle water.

Tap water is chlorinated. Bottled water is ozonated. If you leave them in a pitcher in the fridge overnight so the ozone and chlorine evaporate off they should be identical.

Comment on Proposed Water Transfer Legislation in Ontario

Sandra Walsh — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:11:18 +0000

The Ontario Provincial Government has proposed a law to control water transfers out of the 3 watersheds in Ontario. There is an exemption for bottled water in containers less than 20 litres. Please use the sample comment below to state your objection at the Ontario Environmental Registry web site.

I am opposed to the section of Bill 198 that deals with exemptions to water transfers out of the originating watershed, Section 34.3 (3).1. This section exempts transfers of containers having a volume of 20 litres or less. However, I see no difference between a truck

… Read the rest

On-going Activities

Sandra Walsh — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:19:05 +0000

Here is what the WWW are working on these days…

We are closely monitoring the developments regarding increased water-taking at the River Valley Developments Inc. (the Dolime site) just west of Guelph. Their proposal is to increase the tonnes of aggregate removed. If the MNR (Ministry of Natural Resources) approves the increase in tonnage, there will be a renewed need to increase the water taking (there have been two previous notices on the environmental registry about the permit to take water which have been withdrawn). An increase in the water taking to get to the bedrock for quarrying… Read the rest

Changing Attitudes

Sandra Walsh — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:20:19 +0000

The Wellington Water Watcher’s presence at this year’s Hillside Festival was a huge success. We commend the efforts of the Board of Hillside as well as The City of Guelph for partnering on this project to offer free water at this year’s festival. Thanks to all who stopped by and to all those smiling volunteers who helped out. It was a very satisfying experience to quench the thirst of thousands! It turned out to be major news that the festival made a concerted effort to drastically reduce the use of bottled water. Over 18,000 litres of clean, safe tap water… Read the rest

The Perils of Plastic

Sandra Walsh — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:15:30 +0000

‘Inherently toxic’ chemical faces its future

MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
April 8, 2007

Bisphenol A is ingested by practically everyone in Canada who eats canned foods or drinks from a can or hard plastic water bottles.

Now a controversy is raging over the safety of widespread public exposure to the chemical, which is known to act like a synthetic female sex hormone.

At the heart of the intense debate over bisphenol A is that it challenges the main tenet of modern toxicology, the idea that the dose makes the poison,… Read the rest

Nestle Bottled Water

Sandra Walsh — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:19:46 +0000

As you know, we had a major initiative this spring opposing the renewal of Nestle’s water permits at Aberfoyle and Hillsburgh. They currently have a permit to draw 3.6 million litres/day from Aberfoyle and 1.1 million litres/day from Hillsburgh (or about 260 Hillside Festivals every day!).

With our encouragement, over 8200 letters of objection to the permit renewal were sent to the Ministry of the Environment. The Aberfoyle permit expired at the end of June, and we were surprised to learn that the Ministry has granted an extension to the current permit, stating that more time is required

… Read the rest