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Water - The Importance of

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Water

The Infographics Show - Water

Canada has the world's longest coastline and generates more hydroelectric power than any country save china
Water looms large in the Canadian landscape and economy, and our per-capita water consumption is second only to Americans.
water is one of Canada's most precious resources - it's time we started treating it as such.

"We live in a society run by water"

Bob Sandford, Chairman

Canadian Partnership Initiative of the United Nations Water for Life Decade

A Conference Board of Canad report suggests that making consumers more conscious of water consumption will lead to better conservation.
in many regions, the price of water doesn't even cover the costs of moving the water from the source to the faucet
40% of Canadians still don't have water meters, unable to measure how much they use.
public education is important
bylaws minimizing use of water at certain times of the day are already in place in a number of Canadian municipalities

Reference: Financial Post Magazine February 2011 pg. 15

Our primary water conservation goals include collecting enough water to meet our annual water needs, reducing storm water runoff and improving the quality of storm water effluent.

fifteen 20,000-litre above-ground rainwater cisterns collecting water from the vast roofs, capturing more than 4 million litres of water annually
low-water and no-water lavatory fixtures
using collected rainwater to irrigate gardens, service washrooms and provide water for the cooling tower on the roof of the Centre for Green Cities
wildlife-friendly stormwater management channels, swales and pond
minimal municipal potable water will be used for toilets or irrigation between April and October (due to freezing temperatures, cisterns will be dormant in winter months). These measures and others will reduce overall municipal water consumption by at least 60% relative to conventional facilities.

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Evergreen Brick Works sits adjacent to the lower Don River and within its floodplain. The design and development of Evergreen Brick Works has honored this landscape context by literally weaving ribbons of green and blue though the 16 buildings on site and through extensive flood mitigation approaches.
Water is central to the site. Mud Creek, considered one of the lost rivers is a tributary of the Don, runs through the site in the Weston Quarry Garden, behind the site four ponds filter storm water and provide habitat to a diverse community of plants and animals.

Reference

Download: The Don Valley during a flood in 1920 - Photo Toronto Archives.pdf

Reference: City of Toronto – Watershed Reference Document

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In 2009, the founder and CEO of the Cirque du Soleil empire, Guy Laliberté, became the seventh private citizen to travel into space
he was the first to write and publish a book about the two-week orbit: a massive 300-page tome titled GAIA, which came out in 2011.
The project has since been turned into a traveling exhibit, making its first New York stop next week at Marlborough Gallery.