Growing up in rural Manitoba, every spring was a lesson in hydrology. Many hours were spent helping the melting runoff along its path or building rafts to explore the sloughs and ravines. It always seemed that the rubber boots were never quite high enough! 

I followed this love of water to Saskatoon to train as a Water Resource Engineering Tech. specializing in groundwater. From there my wife and I moved to Medicine Hat to raise our family, where I have worked as an Agriculture Water Specialist with PFRA for the last 30 years.

The complexities of water are many and varied, from quantity to quality it touches us every day. Thanks to SEAWA , we all now have an opportunity to become involved in managing the future of our water.

World Wetlands Day is celebrated every year on February 2. This day marks the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on February 2,1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea.  Read more here.