Our Water:  Caring For It From Watershed to Tap

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

11:00am to 2:30pm
Canadian Canoe Museum

The Lakeland Alliance is co-hosting a public exhibition of agencies and organizations working locally to protect our water.

Join us at the Canadian Canoe Museum and learn how our water resources are managed and who is ensuring that it is safe for us all.

• Bring the kids!  At 11:10am we will have Glen Caradus of Paddling Pupeteers fame performing his 'Watershed Ed' show that educates young ones about how water flows through our watershed and why it is important to conserve and protect it.

• Informative Speakers! At 12:10pm we have Wayne Stiver (Vice President Water Utilities Services) from Peterborough Utilities talking about how the City treats our water, the system that delivers it to our home and where it goes when we are done with it.  Meredith Carter (Manager of Environmental Services) from the Otonabee Region Conservation Authority will talk about how how the Authority is working to protect our drinking water at the source.

• Click here to see a copy of the day's agenda. Help us promote this event by printing and posting this colour poster around your corner of the world.

7:00pm
Gordon Best Theatre

Join us at The Gordon Best Theatre to wrap up World Water Day for a FREE viewing of the award winning documentary 'Waterlife'.

With ground breaking cinematography, 'Waterlife' tells the epic story of the Great Lakes by following the cascade of its water from northern Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean, through the lives of some of the 35 million people who rely on the lakes for survival.

Trailer