<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Lulu:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">First….get well!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Second…the idea of a federation or council of watershed organizations is on the minds of many, it seems. In January I facilitated a Canadian Water Network Students and Young Professionals workshop in Ottawa and this was one of the key recommendations they collectively developed. Those recommendations were not made public, for various reasons of attribution and the like, but the idea is certainly alive and well in conversations I am having with colleagues in the Forum for Leadership on Water (FLOW) as we work on a project currently titled “Making the Federation Work for Water”.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tony</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 15, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Louisette Lanteigne <<a href="mailto:butterflybluelu@rogers.com" class="">butterflybluelu@rogers.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1471832650yui_3_16_0_1_1418656426604_39500" class="" style=""><span class="" style="">Hi folks!</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1471832650yui_3_16_0_1_1418656426604_39500" class="" style=""><span class="" style=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1471832650yui_3_16_0_1_1418656426604_39500" class="" style=""><span class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418656426604_45771">I relayed this to Kevin but wanted to share this with the group too. </span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1471832650yui_3_16_0_1_1418656426604_39500" class="" style=""><span class="" style=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1471832650yui_3_16_0_1_1418656426604_39500" class="" style=""><span id="yiv1471832650yui_3_16_0_1_1418656426604_40912" class="" style="">I've been dealing with very bad pnumonia for about a month and a half. First antibiotics failed to stop the chest infections. I'm on the second set right now with the most powerful stuff they've got plus two codine tylonols to boot. Never the less, sleepless nights allowed me to come up with that brainstorm </span> that unfolded as I wrote it. I have no clue on timeframe or the policy architecture to shape the logic and I'm a go with the flow thinker. I'm not fixated on having to do it, and I don't see the vision of me doing it yet but that idea of approaching issues based on Watershed wide is the fundamental thing that just clicked. </div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1471832650yui_3_16_0_1_1418656426604_39496" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1471832650yui_3_16_0_1_1418656426604_39496" class="" style="">This might actually be an idea for a National Water Strategy actually: The creation of a Watershed governance tier including a rep for every watershed to represent issues of ecological/economical/policy/sustainability based initiatives. </div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1471832650yui_3_16_0_1_1418656426604_39496" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1471832650yui_3_16_0_1_1418656426604_39496" class="" style="">That is what I really want to see as an ongoing thing. The EBR idea was a concept to get to this step which I think has more appeal as a long term ongoing dynamic tool rather than falling into the shortcomings of the Oak Ridge's Moraine Act. That policy got it's wheel stuck in the muck. It's hard for them to push concerns further but if we facilitated a watershed vehical of governance, we could impliment solutions on an evolutionary basis. Keep dialogue going, spread what works and keep expanding and working together to get results etc. </div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1471832650yui_3_16_0_1_1418656426604_39496" class="" style=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1471832650yui_3_16_0_1_1418656426604_39496" class="" style="">If we have the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, why not the Federation of Canadian Watersheds? </div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1471832650yui_3_16_0_1_1418656426604_39496" class="" style=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv1471832650yui_3_16_0_1_1418656426604_39496" class="" style="">Lulu :0)</div><div class="" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418656426604_45827"><br class="" style=""></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">All mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:All@gren.ca" class="">All@gren.ca</a><br class="">http://gren.ca/mailman/listinfo/all_gren.ca<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>