The Vancouver Island Water Watch Coalition will be hosting a two day public Forum on Saturday, May 29th and Sunday, May 30th. The entire event is FREE for all attendees. Our registration e-mail and phone number for this forum is at the bottom of this article. Please advise which days you are going to attend when you register.
Saturday, May 29th -9:00 a.m. - Bowen Park will see bus tours leaving for the City of Nanaimo Water facilities and a bus tour into a watershed. Each tour will operate twice so all attendees will be able to go to both. It is estimated that the City tour will take 2 hours and the watershed tour will take three hours. Lunch will be provided following each tour.
Sunday, May 30th - Beban Park Our day will begin at 9:00 a.m. We have amazing speakers;
Maude Barlow, Rafe Mair, Corky Evans and Arthur Caldicott. The day will also include four workshops by four great "teachers". Andrew Gage - Environmental lawyer with West Coast Environmental law - "Legal options for Source Protection"; Ingmar Lee- Community Activist - "The Industrial Logging of Nanaimo's Drinking Watershed"; Trevor Wicks - "Looking at the Source: A Well protected Drinking Water Supply"; Robin Mathews - "Privatization: Local, National, and International Theft". The intent is to enable all attendees to get to all workshops by keeping the workshops limited in time. A full lunch will be provided on this day as well.
Registration will need to occur to enable us to hire buses for the "Water" tours as well as to adequately prepare for the meals. Our registration e-mail is: islandwatershedprotection@gmail.com.
If you want to call, from April 15th onward, the phone number is 250-716-6964.
Please advise which days you are going to attend when you register.
