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EdITOR’S MESSAGE
CAROL CAMPBELL,
WATERMARK EDITOR
W
elcome to the spring 2012 issue
of Watermark. By now, you are
preparing for the upcoming
BCWWA Annual Conference
& Trade Show and getting ready to ‘Explore
our Depths.’
Members of your Watermark Editorial
Board have been thinking about how we can
make this magazine better. To that end, we
will be increasing the technical content of the
publication. As well, we want the magazine to be
more in harmony with emerging and key concerns
in the water and waste community. In addition to
featuring articles expounding on current subjects,
we hope to provide information and commentary
on topical issues in the industry.
I would like to take this opportunity to
welcome Junior Editor Michael Celli (AECOM) to
the Watermark Editorial Board. We look forward
ensuring the
relevance of our information
to working with Michael as we continue to grow
and improve the magazine.
At the recent Leadership Council meeting, we
talked about BC Water & Waste Association’s
role as a ‘voice for the water and waste
community’ and how we can take this advocacy
role to the next level. As a voice for the
community, BCWWA’s committees have played
a key part in developing Issue Analysis Papers
and Position Statements. To date, five Position
Statements have been published and more are
in the works. These Position Statements are the
messages for which BCWWA is advocating.
We hope that Watermark can help bring these
messages forward with enlightening and
relevant information.
In this issue, our first feature article was
contributed by Reg Whiten, Watershed Steward
for the City of Dawson Creek. He writes about
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the City’s efforts to protect its drinking water
source watershed, which presents many unique
and difficult challenges. These challenges include
changes in the hydraulic regime of the source
due to climate change, impacts from a Mountain
Pine Beetle infestation, and the presence of over
1,200 authorized tenures for gas, agriculture
and forestry activities within the watershed
(page 28).
Bengül Kurtar and Seamus Frain have written
about Metro Vancouver’s recently completed
co-digestion facility at the Annacis Island
Wastewater Treatment Plant. This innovative
‘waste to resource process’ will boost biogas
production in the thermophilic anaerobic
digesters by combining digestible substrates –
such as waste fats, oils and grease – directly
into the anaerobic digesters with the normal
process sludge (page 24).
Also in this issue, Dr. Madjid Mohseni
introduces us to RES’EAU WaterNET, a national,
multidisciplinary research network based out of the
University of British Columbia. This network wishes
to “create a new generation of water experts
committed to improving conditions in small, rural
and First Nations communities” (page 36).
We would like to invite you to comment
on any of the issues brought forward in these
feature articles, as well as those from our regular
contributors, by sending a Letter to the Editor or
an email (watermark@bcwwa.org), or by joining
the BCWWA Facebook group. In particular, for
this issue, we would love to hear your comments
on Neal Klassen’s engaging Conservation Corner
(page 38) or Remi Allard’s action-oriented
article entitled ‘Groundwater: Treatment versus
Protection’ (page 42).
Happy reading everyone.
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