August 15 2024 OLW e-newsletter

You’re invited to save the date on Oct. 3 at 11 am PT, 2 pm ET, 3:30 pm NT! Our Living Waters will be hosting a bilingual webinar to offer a window into the Canada Water Agency (CWA), featuring key CWA leaders and two policy experts from the POLIS Water Sustainability Project and Forum for Leadership on Water. Stay tuned to learn more & sign up!

MEMBER HIGHLIGHTS

	Read our impact story to find out how Water Rangers’ Director, Gabrielle Parent-Doliner, and Community and Research Coordinator, Praise Osifo, are leading the way to complete a Business Case Guidebook and Toolkit for Community-Based Water Monitoring (CBWM) in collaboration with experts from the CBWM Collaborative.
	Dive into two op-eds offering: 1) “A ray of hope to lift the environmental gloom”, with the passing of the Canada Water Agency into legislation; and 2) encouragement from the Canadian Coalition for Healthy Waters’ co-chairs to “Invest in water to protect the summer we love”.

WINDOW ON WATER POLICY & GOVERNANCE

	Check out this Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami brief and joint UN submission highlighting the need for access to clean drinking water in Inuit Nunangat. This basic human right remains a significant challenge for northern communities that are growing in water demand while experiencing drought.
	Find out how Wetlands For Tomorrow in Saskatchewan is advocating the province for better wetland policy. Take a look at this auditor general’s report highlighting failures in Alberta water monitoring and reporting, as well as this declaration demanding Indigenous water conservation and co-management rights in the province.
	Check out a first-of-its-kind “United Nations System-wide Strategy for Water and Sanitation” report, published in conjunction with the Water Action Agenda Special Event at the July High Level Political Forum in New York.

THE ART OF WATER

Watch a recording of Peace in Water Through Boundaries, a hybrid artist talk with Deanna Musgrave, the Conservation Council of New Brunswick and Eastern Charlotte Waterways. Learn about water issues in New Brunswick (and have some fun along the way!) through the art-centered questions Deanna puts to water experts.

NETWORK OPPORTUNITIES

OLW’s Bilingual Water Events Calendar
- August Highlights: World Water Week & webinars from Living Lakes Canada & the Prairie Watersheds Climate Program

OLW’s Bilingual Jobs & Grants Board
- August Highlights: positions with One Drop, Alberta Wilderness Association and Keepers of the Water

Invitation to Comment: National Freshwater Data Strategy, Environment and Climate Change Canada, deadline September 15
Course: 4 Seasons of Indigenous Learning, The Outdoor Learning School & Store, October 2024 – May 2025
Awareness Campaign: Boat and preserve the ecosystem, Coalition Navigation
Awareness Campaign: Pensez Bleu (Think Blue, in French), many Quebec partners
Petition Sign-On: Human Right to Water Campaign, Water Watchers
Participatory Science: Marsh Monitoring Program, Birds Canada
Participatory Science: “Questionnaire pour répertorier toutes les initiatives de science participative de l’eau au Québec”, (Questionnaire to catalogue participatory water science initiatives in Quebec, in French), Groupe d’éducation et d’écosurveillance de l’eau
Photo Contest Vote: Lake Biodiversity Photo Challenge online voting, Living Lakes Canada, deadline August 19

And finally, a warm welcome to Aiding Dramatic Change in Development and EcoSpark, our newest member organizations!

Rebekah
Network Communications Lead
Our Living Waters