With the end of Water Week on March 22 the City of Burnaby has been awarded the title of a Blue Community. A Blue Community is a municipality which recognizes the importance of water.
Burnaby City Council has passed several resolutions which recognizes water as a human right, supports publicly owned water systems, and has banned the sale of bottled water at all municipal events. BC residents use 490 litres of water per day. The average use for Canadians is 329 litres. It's time that all communities, especially here in BC start valuing water by creating legislation which encourages conservation and protects this valuable natural resource. For a quick guide to conservation please go here:
http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/wsd/plan_protect_sustain/water_conservation/brochure.pdf
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