Advocacy for Seniors rights and informing them of old and new legislation, federally, provincially and municipally, as it may affect their wellbeing.

Communities throughout B.C. and across Canada are facing pressure to privatize their water systems. Water Watch raises awareness about the risks of privatizing water and encourages maintaining public water systems.

About the Victoria Group

The Sierra Club of Canada, Victoria Group was formed in 1991. Their mandate is to address a wide range of environmental issues within the general area that affect the environment of the Capital Regional District (CRD).

SIHC is a democratic, inclusive and consensus-based network of organizations and individuals working to retain and improve a universal health care system that is publicly funded, publicly accountable, publicly delivered and publicly controlled. We are a regional movement on southern Vancouver Island in support of public health care, covering the area from Port Renfrew to the Southern Gulf Islands.

Contact the SIHC: 381-0033

The SIHC is part of the B.C. Health Coalition. (see website)

The Social Responsibility Council of the First Unitarian Church of Victoria

Working for fish and fish habitat, pollution prevention and sustainable fisheries.

Formerly the Labour Environmental Alliance Society (LEAS). See their “Getting off the Bottle” campaign.

Vancouver Island Water Watch (VIWW) was founded by a small group of concerned citizens in the mid Vancouver Island area in 2005 due to a concerted effort to privatize community water systems on Vancouver Island by profit-seeking out of Province and out of Country Corporations.

The Greater Victoria Water Watch Coalition is a member of this island-wide coalition.

The CCPA is an independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social and economic justice. Our research and analysis show that there are workable solutions to the policy questions facing Canadians today

See "Time to Pull the Plug on Costly P3s"
http://policyalternatives.ca/Editorials/2006/07/Editorial1407/

CWA advocates for a dedicated national trust fund that must be used solely to improve America's waters.

Since 1980, federal funding for clean and safe water in America has declined by nearly 70%, placing an increasing burden on municipalities. In the last two years alone, Congress has cut clean water funding by over 33%.

90% of Americans believe that "a federal investment to guarantee clean water is a critical component of our nation's environmental well-being (2004 stats)."

Founded in 1985, the Council of Canadians is Canada’s largest citizens’ organization, with members and chapters across the country. We work to protect Canadian independence by promoting progressive policies on fair trade, clean water, energy security, public health care, and other issues of social and economic concern to Canadians.

Development and Peace is the official international development organization of the Catholic Church in Canada. It is a membership-based organization founded in 1967 by Canada's bishops, laity and clergy to fight poverty in the countries of the South, and to promote greater international justice.

Food & Water Watch is a nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food. We challenge the corporate control and abuse of our food and water resources by empowering people to take action and by transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink.

Food & Water Watch works with grassroots organizations around the world to create an economically and environmentally viable future. Through research, public and policymaker education, media, and lobbying, we advocate policies that guarantee safe, wholesome food produced in a humane and sustainable manner and public, rather than private, control of water resources including oceans, rivers, and groundwater.

Click here to see the winning entry for their "I Heart Tap Water" student video contest

Inside the Bottle is a Polaris Institute project designed to stimulate citizen awareness about the bottled water industry.

An ecumenical partnership working to promote human rights, justice and peace, viable human development, and ecological justice.

Edmonton’s drainage infrastructure network represents over 40% of the City’s asset base and an investment with a replacement value of nearly $8 billion. The proposal to surrender those assets to EPCOR was not initiated by City Council; the proposal was made by EPCOR – the third such proposal in the last decade...

Mayne Island Integrated Water Systems Society

Polaris is designed to enable citizen movements to re-skill and re-tool themselves to fight for democratic social change in an age of corporate driven globalization.

Public Citizen's Water for All Campaign is dedicated to protecting water as a common resource, stopping water privatization and bulk water sales, and defending access to clean and affordable water around the world.

The Water Privatization Task Force (WPTF) educates and advocates to prevent corporate control of water and municipal water/sewer services and to minimize use of bottled water in order to protect ecosystems and community health and to promote democratic decision-making and environmental justice.

The Sierra Club is America's oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization.

Sierra Club of Canada is a member of the Canadian Friends of the Right to Water, a social and environmental movement that believes water is a public trust to be delivered as a public service on a not-for-profit basis.

A joint project of the Canadian Federation of Students and the Sierra Youth Coalition

The Canadian Federation of Students is a membership-driven organisation that represents over half a million students at universities and colleges across the country. As with many other issues, students have played and continue to play a critical role in working to keep our environment clean and healthy and our governments accountable.

Through organisations such as the Federation, the Sierra Youth Coalition, and the David Suzuki Foundation, students are mobilizing across Canada to put climate change and other environmental issues on the political radar.

The Cumberlander is an interactive website that keeps you informed about current events in Cumberland, BC. It also provides a way for you to inform others about things you feel are important.

Below is the link to their new "Water Page." You are invited to submit articles, poetry, photos, weblinks, etc. that reveal YOUR unique insights regarding this vital element of life.

“Research for People and the Planet.” The Pacific Institute is a nonpartisan research institute that works to advance environmental protection, economic development, and social equity.

"Our aim is to find real-world solutions to problems like water shortages, habitat destruction, global warming, and environmental injustice. Based in Oakland, California, we conduct research, publish reports, recommend solutions, and work with decision makers, advocacy groups, and the public to change policy."

Since our founding in 1987, we've become known for independent, innovative thinking that cuts across traditional areas of study."

W.A.T.E.R. seeks moratorium to protect B.C.’s groundwater.

Threatened by an application for a second water bottling plant beside the Village of Valemount, area residents were amazed to discover that there is little to no legislative protection of groundwater throughout the province of B.C. Working collectively as W.A.T.E.R. (Water Across Time our Environmental Responsibility) the group has researched and circulated information about the detrimental impacts of the bottled water industry and is determined to end the exploitation.

Editor's note: remember to sign their petition!

Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group
The Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group (VIPIRG) is a non-profit organization dedicated to research, education, advocacy, and other action in the public interest. Located in the Student Union Building of the University of Victoria, VIPIRG is a place where students and community members connect to work together on social justice and environmental issues.

Whistler Watch was formed in January 2006 in response to the proposed privatization of Whistler's existing wastewater treatment plant. They campaigned against and successfully halted the proposed P3 (public-private partnership) deal for the plant. To date, the plant remains in public hands.