PUBLIC MEETING RE: DRINKING WATER SOURCE PROTECTION

This announcement is on pg. B3 of today's K-W Record. I've just spent ten minutes with the Record's on line newspaper trying to find it so I could provide a link here to it. No luck at all. All public meetings are from 7 to 9 pm. and the two closest to Woolwich Township are Waterloo on Sept. 9 at the Waterloo Region Emergency Services Training and Research Complex, 1010 Erbs Rd.(it says Erbs Rd. but I suspect Erbsville Rd. is more likely). On Tuesday Sept. 14 at the Italian Canadian Club, 135 Ferguson St. Guelph.

Reports have been written for more than 17 different drinking water systems within the Grand River Watershed. They are on line at www.sourcewater.ca and I've read many of them, and they are an excellent source of information. That being said I just looked up that web address provided in the K-W Record and although it does take you to the correct location I couldn't quickly or easily find the drinking water systems reports. You may have to dig a bit. The downside of both the enabling legislation (Ontario Clean Water Act) and these reports may be a uniquely Canadian situation. We have top notch scientists. We have top notch legislation. Our government bodies (actually taxpayers) finance top notch research and publication of environmental studies. The problem is we have third world and third rate politicians who bury and ignore the results of these studies. Environmental enforcement of our legislation isn't even good enough to be called a joke. Please do yourselves and all of us a favour by attending one of these public meetings, asking questions and possibly providing comments.