Video Release: Globe2016 in Vancouver Session; Water
Integrity - Infrastructure & Innovation
“Canada is sleepwalking into
an uncertain future” - Howard Wheater, Director of the Global Institute for
Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan
March 8, 2016 - Vancouver BC, Point Roberts WA -
Investorideas.com, a digital global news source covering leading sectors
including renewable energy and water, reports on the recently held GLOBE 2016
Conference & Innovation Expo (#Globe2016), held in Vancouver last week.
Leaders from around the world gathered to discuss
key topics in sustainability, including water. In this panel session, “Water
Integrity: Infrastructure & Innovation”, water scarcity and water security were
discussed.
Climate change, pollution, the way land is managed
and drinking water problems all demonstrate a host of issues here in water-rich
Canada.
Howard Wheater, Director of the Global Institute
for Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan, told the audience that “the
Canadian Government recently reported it will be spending $1 billion a year on
floods and droughts. Globally, we may have 6 billion people in water scarce
areas in just a few decades time. Most Canadians think that applies to rest of
the world but is not an issue here because we have lots of water.”
He also points out the degradation of water quality
across Canada. With all the challenges, he also pointed out that smarter
technologies for land and water management could provide solutions.
“When it comes to assuming responsibility,” he says
“the Federal Government does not take strong responsibility for managing the
water; it lies with provinces and they have mixed levels of capability.”
He also went on to say “Canada is the canary in the coal mine for global
warming. We are seeing some of the world’s most rapid rates of warming.”
Karen Bakker, a Professor and Canada Research Chair
at the University of British Columbia said, “One of the truths about water
issues is that they are global in scale but they are locally expressed.”
She narrows in on one region as an example; the
Peace-Athabasca Delta. The Peace-Athabasca Delta, located in northeast Alberta,
is the largest freshwater inland river delta in North America. “Not far from
there is major hydraulic fracturing activity and not far from that, one of BC’s
largest wind farm projects and also in this area, one of the sources of major-proposed
LNG pipelines. When you look at this, you get a sense of the water nexus. In
one of Northern Canada’s most important food producing regions, you have
intense competition for water; water for energy, food, drinking - and water for
nature.”
Water
Integrity: Infrastructure & Innovation Panel Session
This session brings a solutions-oriented outlook on
water security trends to ensure access to water and catalyze economic growth.
Join leading experts to learn how investment, emerging models of delegated
water governance, innovation and technology deployment are scaling solutions
and addressing water scarcity. Take away
key insights on how cross-sector partnerships create opportunities for
sustainable business and effectively conserve, manage and distribute this vital
resource.
Topic
Speakers:
Lindsay Bass is Head of the US Corporate Water
Stewardship Initiative for the World Wildlife Fund. The initiative leverages
private sector partnerships to conserve water resources and freshwater
ecosystems.
Karen Bakker is a Professor and Canada Research
Chair at the University of British Columbia, where she is the Director of the
Program on Water Governance (www.watergovernance.ca). The mandate of the program is to spur policy
innovation in water governance. Her team has worked in over a dozen countries
on four continents.
John Coburn - Managing Director, XPV Water Partners
& Director, FilterBoxx Water & Environmental Corp.
John has over 40 years’
experience of leading, operating and investing in water and wastewater
companies.
Howard Wheater - Director, Global Institute for
Water Security. Professor Wheater holds the positions of Canada Excellence
Research Chair in Water Security and Director, Global Institute for Water
Security at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and Distinguished Research
Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Hydrology at Imperial College, London, United
Kingdom (UK). Global Institute for Water Security: www.usask.ca/water
GLOBE 2016 Conference & Innovation Expo (GLOBE
2016), is the next GLOBE event within the iconic GLOBE Series, North America’s
largest and longest-running Conference and Exposition series dedicated to
business innovation for the planet. A world-leading sustainability GLOBE Conference
coupled with an exciting GLOBE Innovation Exposition, GLOBE™ is about
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be more resilient, more efficient, and reduce risk.
Taking place every two years in Vancouver, Canada,
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and off the stage.
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