[All] Canadian Water Network

[Susan Koswan]

Thank you Tony,

 

I keep going back to thinking that our work needs to focus on closing the gap between government and academia/research and widening the gap between academia/research and corporate/private/foundation money. My fundraising work in not-for-profits was far too often swerved to meet the parameters/needs/goals of the funding body rather than to serve the needs and meet the mandate of the not-for-profit agency. It’s been many years, but I expect it has got worse rather than better. Academia should serve “the people”. 

 

I just keep struggling to find what the keystone or catalyst is that is central to creating the cascade of positive changes we’d like to see happen. It starts with removing Harper, but the core is still rotten...

 

Susan K

 

 

 

 

From: Tony Maas [mailto:tony at maas-strategies.com] 
Sent: March-08-15 2:02 PM
To: Susan Koswan
Cc: GREN
Subject: Re: [All] Canadian Water Network

 

I have had plenty of dealings - am currently working on a contract for them. 

 

Suggest you reach out to Dr. Mark Servos if you are interested in understanding what CWN researchers are doing on the Grand. He is a busy guy but I imagine he’d be willing to speak to GREN. Note that CWN is a national network, so they have projects in place across the country.

 

Tony

On Mar 8, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Susan Koswan <susankoswan at execulink.com> wrote:

 

Hi GRENers,

Has anyone ever had any dealings with the Canadian Water Network? 

 

 <http://www.cwn-rce.ca/index.php/> http://www.cwn-rce.ca/index.php/

 

Met up with some acquaintances last night (mostly health-related professions) and they were talking about the terrible things that are in the Grand River – artificial sweeteners and oestrogen in particular. With such a vast number of water professionals in our neck of the woods, you’d think the Grand and our acquifers would be pristine and state of the art. Instead, we still have toxic sediments and the residuals of Crompton etc fouling the system, a water-treatment system that can do nothing for chemical pollutants and an aged wastewater treatment system that cannot handle chemical pollutants and seriously needs to be upgraded (although I understand that is in the works). 

 

Perhaps the conversation is happening and work is being done between the researchers and our decision makers and I just don’t know about it, but if it isn’t, should it be a high priority for GREN to be a conduit for that conversation? 

 

I don’t feel like buying an RO system...

 

Thanks,

Susan K

 

 

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