The Elmvale Water Festival 2010Preparations for the Fourth Annual Elmvale Water Festival are well under way. The event will Return to the Elmvale Fairgrounds (See map) on Saturday August 21, 2010. The Keynote Speaker for the event will be Robert Sandford with his presentation "Restoring the Flow: Towards a New Canadian Water Ethic". An interview with Robert Sandford for Water Canada Magazine by William Shotyk can be found HERE. Water Canada Magazine can be found online at www.watercanada.net. Distinguished singer-songwriter James Gordon from Wellington Water Watchers will also be presenting on Sustainability of Municipal Water Supplies.The film WATERLIFE by Kevin McMahon has been selected for presentation this year. Details for the Speakers, Film and other Entertainment can be found on the Elmvale Water Festival 2010 page. Please come back regularly as updates will be coming at a furious pace. The Foundation is also excited to announce the generous donation of a limited edition print of the book cover from Dr. Seuss, "The Lorax" by Chase Art Companies. This print, along with many other fine items will be available as part of the silent auction. Please book the date and plan to attend. The Call For Volunteers has gone out. Please visit the page for more details or contact Mike Powell at mike@elmvale.org to join the team. W.S. Fyfe Distinguished Scientist in Residence Inaugural LectureProf. W. Shotyk, President and CEO of the Elmvale Foundation, is the inaugural W.S. Fyfe Distinguished Scientist in Residence for Environment and Sustainability, University of Western Ontario, London, ONT. The inaugural lecture, held on 25. February in honour of W.S. Fyfe and entitled "A look back at the Garden of Eden: reconstructing environmental history using peat bogs and polar ice", is available HERE.Elmvale World Water Day 2010Elmvale celebrated World Water day on Sunday March 28, 2010 at the Community Hall in Elmvale ((map here)). This year's event included a Town Hall meeting starting in the morning with discussions on Zero Waste and protection of our water resources. The World Water Day Speaker's Series Series returned to Elmvale in the afternoon with a presentation by Dr. Brian Petri, Senior Research Scientist, Trojan Technologies, who spoke on “The How and Why of Water Treatment, from Waste Water to Drinking Water” . Highlites and photos from the event will be available shortly at the Elmvale World Water Day site.Video from the 2009 Elmvale Water FestivalVideo Highlights for the 2009 Elmvale Water Festival are available online. The video and copies of the presenter presentations are available at 2009 video. Video from the 2008 and 2007 events can be found under the links provided or under the past events menu.We protect what we value, we value what we understand.
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