(Niagara At Large is posting the following note from the Ottawa-based citizens group the Council of Canadians, spirited on by its dedicated director Maude Barlow, about the City of Niagara Falls, Ontario and its efforts to protect and preserve our precious water resources.)
WIN! Niagara Falls Becomes A Blue Community!
By Brent Patterson, C0uncil of Canadians
Jeff Guarasci, the community development coordinator with the City of Niagara Falls, has written us to let us know that the municipality “has adopted the Blue Community initiative”.
Niagara Falls, Ontario council deserves some credit for caring here.
Niagara Falls is a city of more than 80,000 people located in the Golden Horseshoe Region of Southern Ontario.
To become a blue community, a municipality must:
-respect water as a human right,
-stop the sale of bottled water on city property,
-commit to keep drinking water and waste water treatment and distribution publicly owned and operated.
Congratulations Niagara Falls!
To learn more about the Blue Community Project, go to http://www.canadians.org/bluecommunities.
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