International Women’s Day March 8
David Barth’s Birthday March 5
Rick Bolson’s Wife
John Thomson 12th year Anniversary
Neil Aitchison – 40 years Anniversary and as founding member
Send congrats to all.
Sat. April 24 Celebration of 7th area of focus - the Environment
Sat May 29 Virtual District Conference. More info later
Wed. June 30 President’s night will be done virtually
Mac - New Rotary Facebook group – Rotary Great Lakes Watershed Clean Up. Another for District 7080 Please join.
Update State of the Region – Louise did a great job as did Judy Nairn With 100th anniversary we should host it again. Over 500 attandees – done with Region of Waterloo Staff running theings in the background. Thanks also to Paul Poupolo and Howard Pell for their roles in the event.
Speaker
Klara introduced speaker Peter Gray
Peter Gray - MTE
Hydrogeologist and Entrepreneur – Canada, Asia and around the world.
Some provinces nearly 100% of people use groundwater for general use.
Only 4% of world water is groundwater.
Malawi 1995
Bangladesh 2000 – 2002 CIDA funded
South East Asia – Tsunami 2005 – 6 Program with World Vision
1989 Elmira Water supply
Walkerton e-coli outbreak 2000
Ontario most heavily regulated areas with regards to water.
Still have issues
First nations have issues across the country.
New contaminants continue to be found impacting the water sources
Public has limited understanding of water issues.
Wanted to promote water education. Started up a charity in 2007 to address the shortfall in education for children. Children’sWater Festivals. more than 800000 students and 2020 was 25 anniversary of Water festivals in Ontario in 30 communities
Inspire young people to become leaders in the community with regards to water issues.
Where might careers in water be found?
Ties their activities into Rotary’s focus on Water.
Mar 22 – World Water day – UN
Educator rather than activist – education well over 1M people.
Kick off 5 club Rotary Environment committee
