SEAWA

Annual 

General Meeting

March 31, 2015

As you know, SEAWA has an elected Board of Directors, whose members represent various sectors of the local population.

SEAWA 2015 Annual General Meeting

Tuesday, March 31st, 2015

Courtyard at Medicine Hat College.

1:30 to 4:00 pm.

Guest speakers are: Tom Habib, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI), who will speak about a collaborative project between ABMI and SEAWA regarding water quality modelling and land use analysis. Dr. Peter Wallis, Hyperion Research Ltd will also be presenting his local Trace Organics study.

SEAWA AGM business will convene after the speakers have concluded.The public and SEAWA members are invited to attend the presentations, the business meeting, or both.

Membership Categories

Membership in SEAWA shall include the following membership categories

       Land Resource Industry, which shall consist of individuals, corporations, businesses or other "for profit" organizations who maintain offices or conduct business within the boundaries of SEAWA including agricultural interests, energy development, infrastructure development, associations, companies and corporations;

        Licensee Members, which shall consist of irrigators  or non-irrigators that have an approved license issued under the Water Act RSA 2000, c.W-3 and amendments thereto or the Environment Protection and Enhancement Act RSA 2000 c. E-12, and amendments thereto, and who operate water management and/or water control facilities within the boundaries of SEAWA;

         Municipal Government Members, which shall consist or corporations under the Municipal Government Act RSA 2000 c. M-26, and amendments thereto, whose areas of jurisdiction are included, fully or partially, within the boundaries of SEAWA;

        Eco-Toursim and Environmental Groups, which shall consist of organizations or agencies that have a demonstrated interest in water and/or water use management within the boundaries of SEAWA;

         Regulatory, Administrative Members, which  shall consist of Provincial and/or Federal Government departments or agencies or other organizations incorporated under wither Provincial or Federal legislation who have a regulatory and /or administrative interest in matters related to water and/or water use management within the boundaries of SEAWA;

       Members at Large, which shall consist of individuals who have a demonstrated interest in water and/or water use management, prairie or parkland conservation use or management, and are resident within the boundaries of SEAWA;

          Aboriginal, which shall consist of individuals, bands, or communities who have a demonstrated interest, right or cultural relationship with the water, watershed and are residents within the boundaries of SEAWA; and

        Academic Institutions and Non-Government Organizations (NGO),  which shall consist of academic agencies, not-for-profit organizations or accredited post-secondary educational institutions that have a demonstrated interest in water and/or water use management within the boundaries of SEAWA. 

Youth means a person between 18 and 30 years of age.

Seats up for election

• Academic Institutions
• Individual Public Member 
• Regulators, Federal 
• Individual Public Member
• Aboriginal Member
• Eco-Tourism & Environmental Groups 
• Non-government Organization
• Land Resource Industry, Industrial 
• Regulators, Administrative 
• Youth / Young Professional, 1 year term 
• Licensees, Irrigator 
• Licenssee, Non-Irrigator
• Municipal Government 
• Land Resource Industry, Agriculture 

We invite you to be a part of a group who is involved in the development and management of a sustainable watershed! We look forward to hearing from you with nomination requests, suggestions for potential members and general inquiries.

Please feel free to forward this notice to other groups or individuals if you think they would be interested in attending.

Storm runoff can be toxic to aquatic life, but a new study suggests a simple and relatively inexpensive solution: Filter the water through dirt before it enters streams, rivers or the ocean.

Researchers collected runoff from a busy four-lane highway in Seattle during six storms in 2011 and 2012. They tested the toxicity of water from the first five storms and found that coho salmon fry could not survive in it, nor could the mayfly and water flea larvae they feed on.

Then they collected water from the sixth storm. The samples were also highly toxic to the insects, and all of the fish were dead within 12 hours of exposure. But in samples run through the dirt filters, the salmon and the insects flourished. In some of the filters, the researchers included plants as well. As it turned out, the soil mix alone was so effective that plants provided no additional protection. The study was published online in the journal Chemosphere.

"The reason we do this research is because in many areas, low-impact approaches will be required with new development," said the lead author, Jennifer McIntyre, a postdoctoral researcher at Washington State University at Puyallup. "With a fully built environment, like a major city, it will be hard to do this."

By Nicholas Bakalar, article in The New York Times, Jan 26, 2015