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Home / Appendix III – Moving to Action: NRT National Water Forum Report

Appendix III – Moving to Action: NRT National Water Forum Report

WATER FORUM AGENDA

8:00 – 8:30 Registration and Breakfast  
8:30 – 8:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks Robert Slater
NRT Vice-Chair
8:45 – 9:00 Overview of Charting A Course Recommendations Jill Baker, NRT
9:00 – 9:50 Panel I: Water Forecasts and the Importance of Water Data and Information
* All panel presentations to be followed by discussion with participants

Tony Maas
WWF Canada

Anthony Watanabe
Innovolve
9:50 – 10:45 Panel II: Putting a Price on Water

Steven Renzetti
Brock University

Kirsten Vice
NCASI
10:45 – 11:00 Health Break  
11:00 – 11:50 Panel III: Collaborative Water Governance

David Marshall
Fraser Basin Council

Don Pearson
Conservation Ontario
11:50 – 12:00 Instructions for the Afternoon Session Facilitator
George Greene
Stratos Inc.
12:00 – 13:00 Networking Lunch  
13:00 – 15:00 Outlining an Action Plan Small Group Discussion
15:00 – 15:15 Health Break  
15:15 – 16:15 Panel IV: Starting to Act
Moderator: Mark Parent, NRT Member

Cairine MacDonald,
Government of British
Columbia

Jean Cinq-Mars,
Government of Québec

David B. Brooks, POLIS
16:15 – 16:30 Closing Remarks Robert Slater
NRT Vice-Chair