Executive Director of Partnership for Water Sustainability in BC. Public policy focus re water sustainability, rainwater management and green infrastructure.
Bowen Island, BC
Joined January 2014
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Living Water Smart in BC - season finale. During the past 5-month period, the Partnership has published 20 feature stories. This finale edition constitutes our "season in review". mailchi.mp/watersustainabili…
Comox Valley: an experiment in collaboration. Collaboration has built trust in the Comox Valley. The four local governments are looking beyond their boundaries to figure out how they can help and support each other. mailchi.mp/watersustainabili…
Barry Janyk: rural constituencies want a voice. Zoom towns made possible by high-speed internet have allowed vast numbers of people to vacate their city condo for a family home in a rural setting. mailchi.mp/watersustainabili…
Trusting the person on the other side of the call makes a world of difference in not being afraid to test new ideas. mailchi.mp/watersustainabili…
Healthy Waters Program for salmon, whales, and people. Killer whales are demonstrating the fundamental failure of our regulatory system to have an early warning system. mailchi.mp/watersustainabili…
Shelly Creek in Parksville is a "living laboratory" - The City of Parksville's 1990s decision to create a greenway along Shelly Creek resulted in an ecological legacy for fish and residents. mailchi.mp/watersustainabili…
BC's path to food security is thru water security: We would have to increase irrigated land area by 50% to attain food security in BC. The Fraser Valley alone could provide 2/3 of the area needed! - mailchi.mp/watersustainabili…
Looking at green roofs through a water balance lens - Following his passion in unexpected ways led Harvy Takhar down the green roof pathway to international recognition. mailchi.mp/watersustainabili…
Road map for stream system integrity - Working at multiple scales is a must to restore urban streams. To move the needle, communities must restore riparian areas. mailchi.mp/watersustainabili…
Communities need annual budgets to tackle the Riparian Deficit along streams. Riparian Deficit shows the magnitude or measurable consequence of weak oversight and failure to manage stream corridors and adjacent riparian areas. mailchi.mp/watersustainabili…
Build bridges of understanding, pass the baton! Collaborative leadership uses the power of influence rather than positional authority to align individuals and organizations within a network. mailchi.mp/watersustainabili…
Town of Comox - beacon of inspiration for water balance approach to land development. Comox experience illustrates what it takes to successfully move the land development industry and engineering profession in a new direction. mailchi.mp/watersustainabili…
What does "water reconciliation" look like? Communities have a once in a generation opportunity to get our relationships with water and with each other right. mailchi.mp/watersustainabili…
Measure streamflow and close a data gap in community planning. Measuring streamflow is critical to effective water resource allocation to support land use and community planning that also sustains stream systems. mailchi.mp/watersustainabili…
REGISTRATION COUNTDOWN: Water Reconciliation 101 for Mayors, Councillors and Regional Directors --- Blue Ecology Seminar looks at interweaving of Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives in the Cowichan region mailchi.mp/watersustainabili…
Community-based. John Millson is passionate about using science and indigenous knowledge to protect the water and watersheds of Salt Spring’s drinking-water lakes. science raises water balance awareness on Salt Spring Island. mailchi.mp/watersustainabili…
Watershed Moments Award honours legacy of Rob Lawrance (1964-2022). Rob Lawrance had an extraordinary ability to connect with people and people with ‘place’. mailchi.mp/watersustainabili…
Adapting to floods and droughts in the Cowichan region: Stewardship is not always about the actions that stewards take. It is about the culture of a community. mailchi.mp/watersustainabili…
ON FEBRUARY 23: attend Blue Ecology 101 for local politicians. Watershed Moments 2023 seminar is designed to inform local government elected representatives about BLUE ECOLOGY, a pathway to “water reconciliation”. mailchi.mp/watersustainabili…
LOCAL GOVERNMENT POLICY IMPACTS RIPPLE THROUGH TIME: The growing cost of neglect is the driver for linking municipal infrastructure asset management and stream health as "cause-and-effect". mailchi.mp/watersustainabili…
