Media Release, Cowichan Watershed Board, March 21, 2016 (Duncan) Cowichan Watershed Board is marking the UN’s World Water Day on March 22 by congratulating local residents and water suppliers for significant water-saving progress in the Cowichan Water Challenge in 2015. The Challenge engages most of the region’s major water suppliers in a collective race to […]
BC Hydro donates $2000 to the Cowichan Water Conservation Challenge
Cowichan Watershed Board, August 24 2015 Thank you to BC Hydro for helping to cover the material expenses for this summer's Cowichan Water Conservation Challenge, such as toilet leak test kits and outreach postcards. Pictured here – Ted Olynyk, BC Hydro's Manager, Community Relations for Vancouver Island, presents a $2000 cheque to "Flo" and Cowichan […]
Talking water conservation with Raincoast Aquaponics
Lauren Frost, Guest Columnist, Cowichan Valley Citizen, August 20 2015 Editor’s note: If you haven’t met “Flo” yet, this superhero is visiting Cowichan communities this summer, helping us face down a severe drought and water restrictions. Cowichan Watershed Board summer student Lauren Frost reports in weekly as Flo visits local watershed heroes to learn more […]
7th Annual Cowichan River Cleanup
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Cowichan anxious to solve a drying river
Amy Smart, Times Colonist, July 19 2015 Cowichan Tribes Chief Chip Seymour has watched the once robust Cowichan River reduced to a mere stream. Drought conditions are stranding salmon fry in warm pools, he said, and hampering mature chinook from completing their spring run up to Cowichan Lake. “It’s hard to look at the river,” […]