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Mining work going ahead

Posted on September 7, 2018

Castanet – September 7, 2018 Controversial exploratory mining work is set to get underway this fall in the mountains between Summerland and Peachland, despite opposition from both municipalities. Troubadour Resources is probing five mineral claims near Eneas Lakes Provincial Park in…

Summerland council values local agriculture

Posted on June 11, 2018

Summerland Review – June 11, 2018 In 2015 this council publicly and formally showed their commitment to the value of culture by including a fourth ‘pillar’, in the district’s strategic plan. By doing so, council acknowledged that culture is as…

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Tags: agriculture, Summerland

Board Report – December

The Okanagan Basin Water Board’s monthly Board Report provides highlights from this week’s Board of Directors meeting. The monthly report provides up-to-date information about ... Read more >
Okanagan Water Board announces major change to grant program

Kelowna, B.C. – The Okanagan Basin Water Board (OBWB) is now accepting applications to its revamped 2019 Water Conservation and Quality Improvement (WCQI) Grant ... Read more >
Okanagan Water Board calls for B.C. legislation to protect B.C. waters from invasive mussels

Kelowna, B.C. – The Okanagan Basin Water Board (OBWB) is renewing a call for legislation that would require all out-of-province watercraft to be inspected ... Read more >
Community Water Forum – Nov. 21

The Okanagan Basin Water Board (OBWB)-Okanagan WaterWise is pleased to join UBC Okanagan and present “Fire and Flood: Climate Change & Extreme Weather in ... Read more >
Environmental Flow Needs Conference Leads with Reconciliation

Water Canada – October 24, 2018 Last week, 250 attendees at the siwłkʷ (WATER) FOR ALL – OUR RESPONSIBILITY Environmental Flow Needs Conference listened, ... Read more >

Our water future is just beginning
“Patience, time and money accommodate all things.” – Spanish Proverb BC is in the middle of another resource development boom. Water isn’t one of them, but as always, is central to everything. More than 100 years ago, the Water Act was … Continue reading →
Not waiting for Noah
“Planning is best done in advance.” – Anonymous Flying into Calgary at the end of June, everyone on the plane was glued to the windows, staring at the mess of mud and debris from the Great Flood. Eventually, rivers always … Continue reading →
Zebra mussels: scarier than Jurassic Park.
“They’ll clump on rock, they’ll clump in pipe, and they’ll clump mussel-next-to-mussel-atop-mussel in astonishing congregations of as many as 70,000 individuals a square foot” – Sue McGrath It’s hard to get people excited about invisible threats that haven’t arrived yet, but … Continue reading →