News Advisory - Security Underground: Financing Groundwater Mapping and Monitoring in Canada

University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs
Thursday May 28, 2015 12:30 pm

TORONTO, May 27, 2015 /CNW/ - On May 28, 2015 the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs will tackle the issue of how to finance mapping and monitoring of Canada's groundwater in an era of climate change and feature the release of a Nanos Poll that explores Canadian attitudes on the protection of Canada's groundwater resource. Groundwater is Canada's hidden natural resource, but the importance of this resource to our environment, health, and economy is neither understood nor appreciated. Federal and provincial mapping and monitoring programs are uncoordinated and under-resourced.  The symposium will be anchored by papers developed by Ralph Pentland, former principal author of Canada's Federal Water Policy, and by David McLaughlin, former President and CEO of the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy.  The symposium will stream live at the Program on Water Issues website.

What	New paper on how to finance groundwater mapping and monitoring and release of poll on Canadians' views on groundwater (see www.powi.ca )
Where	Munk School of Global Affairs Program on Water Issues, U of Toronto, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto M5S 2K7
When	Thursday May 28, 2015 12:30 to 4:30 pm, reception to follow

David McLaughlin, Adèle Hurley and other participants are available for interviews.

SOURCE Program on Water Issues, Munk School, University of Toronto

Adèle Hurley, Director, Program on Water Issues, Munk School of Global Affairs, [email protected], 416-946-8919