Lake, drought in focus

March 21, 2016

March 21, 2016 – Castanet

A renowned expert on water will team up with UBC Okanagan, Tuesday, on World Water Day.

The Okanagan Basin Water Boardโ€™s Okanagan WaterWise program and the Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, and Ecosystem Services at UBCO will host Margaret Catley-Carlson, past chair of the UN-affiliated Global Water Partnership and vice-chair of the Canadian Water Network Board.

Catley-Carlson will speak at a free panel discussion and mixer at the Laurel Packinghouse.

The event, exSTREAMS, looks at the Okanagan’s droughts and floods both from a historical perspective, as well as how these extreme weather events are changing in frequency and intensity, and what communities are doing to address them.

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