Edmonton Water Week 2014

[Council of Canadians Edmonton]

Hi All,

Edmonton Water Week 2014 is fast approaching.  Below are some of the great events that will be happening throughout the week, we hope to see you there!

Below are some of the events happening in Edmonton to mark World Water Week.  For a full schedule and event details, check out http://edmontonwaterweek.wordpress.com/

MONDAY, MARCH 17

Unveiling of Water Bottle Sculpture

Time: 10:00am – 11:00am

Location: Quad

Come by for the unveiling of a student-designed and constructed water bottle sculpture, which will be made from over close to 600 water bottles!  The number of water bottles used for the sculpture represents just 10% of bottled water that is consumed on the U of A campus every month.

*The sculpture will be on exhibit in quad throughout Water Week

TUESDAY, MARCH 18

Film Screening: Gasland Part II

Time:  7:00pm – 9:00pm

Location: University of Alberta, Location TBC

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In this explosive follow-up to his Oscar®-nominated film GASLAND, filmmaker Josh Fox takes a deeper, broader look at the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil,  now occurring in 32 countries worldwide.

GASLAND PART II, which premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, shows how the stakes have been raised on all sides in one of the most important environmental issues facing our nation today.  The film argues that the gas industry’s portrayal of natural gas as a clean and safe alternative to oil is a myth and that fracked wells inevitably leak over time, contaminating water and air, hurting families, and endangering the earth’s climate with the potent greenhouse gas, methane.  In addition the film looks at how the powerful oil and gas industries are in Fox’s words “contaminating our democracy”.

Presented by the Blue University Project (U of A chapter of Council of Canadians)

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19 (BOTTLE WATER FREE DAY)

The Struggle for the Sacred: Water and Resource Extraction in Indigenous Territories

Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm

Location: TBC

More info on this great event coming soon!

Presented by the Memoria Viva Society of Edmonton

THURSDAY, MARCH 20

Speaker Series: Access to Water and Sanitation in the Global South

Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm

Location: TBC

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Join us for an evening of discussion around the access to water and sanitation around the globe.  Presentations from The Manavta Project (http://www.manavtaproject.org/) and   Engineers Without Borders (http://www.ewb.ca/)

 

Presented by the Blue University Project (U of A chapter of Council of Canadians), an APIRG Working Group

SATURDAY, MARCH 22 (WORLD WATER DAY)

A Celebration of the Athabasca

Time: 9:30 am to 4:30 pm

Location: Telus Centre (Map)

A day long celebration of the Athabasca Watershed as a site of huge national and international significance. Programmed activities include talks and displays, including a University of Alberta Water Initiative coordinated discussion of oil sands processes such as hydraulic fracturing (known in the popular media as “fracking”) and insitu production, in relation to the water supply, and the role of science and scientists in informing the public and separating fact from fiction.

Presented in collaboration with Treaty Eight, Treaty Six, the Keepers of the Athabasca, and the University of Alberta Department of Education Policy Studies project ‘Intersections: Indigenous Communities, Energy Development and the Triple Crisis of Sustainability’