Bob sandford outlines and explais the hard lessons to learn from the devastating Jasper wildfires.

Fresh water has always been key to making summer memories with friends and family, but it is also how most people will feel the impacts of climate change.

While the government has shown commitment to improving water quality by investing $1.8 billion to improve on-reserve water infrastructure, leading to a 45% reduction in long-term drinking water advisories, this effort has not addressed the removal of emerging water contaminants from drinking water and wastewater. Following the US EPA legally enforceable standards for PFAS in drinking water, there is a need for a more ambitious effort from the Canadian government to update our drinking water guidelines to include emerging contaminants even beyond PFAS and to consider legally enforceable standards across provinces and territories. 

Living Lakes Canada undertook a four-year lake study from 2019-2023 to understand how lake foreshores in the B.C. Columbia Basin region are changing due to urbanization and development.

We need national co-ordination, new investment and novel technologies applied to the prediction of floods, water quality and droughts, and identification of risk to properties and infrastructure, write John Pomeroy, Bob Sandford and Thomas Axworthy.

Excerpt from POLIS Wildfire Resilience Project – Lightning Explainer Series

An American threat assessment identified global water security and climate-related disasters like drought as an increasing risk to its national security interests, and Canada needs to catch up, says AquaAction's Soula Chronopoulos.

Imagine: Water for new housing pitted against water to grow food. Water for salmon versus water for livestock. But conflict over water access is not inevitable in B.C.

FLOW Member Ralph Pentland interviewed for the Globe and Mail on the latest report by a federal advisory panel on the Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements (DFAA)

It all begins with an idea.

It all begins with an idea.

It all begins with an idea.

It all begins with an idea.

It all begins with an idea.