The Canadian Water Summit Starts Today- And we Better pay attention

The Water Summit is hidden in the shadow of the G8 but it could be the most important event with the most crucial consequences. Big business is attending- you can be sure of that. The issues are illustrated in the two video clips below.






Some of the organizations who are attending:
The following is a selection of the organizations that have already registered for the Summit:

•Air Miles for Social Change

•Alliance of Ontario Food Processors

•Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO)

•Bereskin & Parr LLP

•BMO Financial Group

•Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG)

•Building Water Solutions Inc.

•Canada Revenue Agency

•Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (CBSR)

•Canadian Council of Grocery Distributors

•Canadian Electricity Association (CEA)

•Canadian Federation of Agriculture

•Canadian Hydropower Association

•Canadian Institute for Chartered Accountants (CICA)

•Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy

•Canadian Trade Commissioner Service

•Canadian Waste Water Association - York Region

•Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership

•City of Barrie

•City of Mississauga

•City of Welland

•Commexus Inc.

•Corporate Knights

•Cossette Communications

•Cromaboo Inc.

•Cybera Inc

•Dagua Inc.

•Dalhousie University

•Desert Spring Products

•Enbridge Gas Distribution

•FCM Green Municipal Fund

•Federation of Ontario Cottagers' Associations

•Fer-Pal Construction Ltd.

•Fleming College

•Freshwater Consulting

•GHD

•Goldcorp

•Government of Ontario

•Grand River Conservation Authority

•Green Enterprise Ontario (GEO)

•Hanson Pipe and Precast, Ltd.

•Humber College

•Hydac Corporation

•Imperial Oil

•Independent First Nations Alliance

•Industry Canada

•International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

•Japan Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC)

•KPMG LLP

•Loblaw Companies Ltd

•MaRS Discovery District

•McDonald's Canada

•McKinsey & Company

•McMaster University

•McNally Construction

•Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

•Ministry of Economic Development & Trade

•Ministry of Finance

•Ministry of Research and Innovation

•Ministry of the Environment

•Molson Coors Canada

•Monteco Ltd.

•National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE)

•Network for Business Sustainability

•Nimbus Water Systems

•Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE)

•Ontario Clean Water Agency

•Ontario Climate Change Secretariat

•Ontario Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (OSSGA)

•Pulse Canada

•Procter & Gamble

•Real Property Association of Canada (REALpac)

•Regional Municipality of York

•Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)

•Sempa Power

•Siemens Water Technologies

•SNC-Lavalin

•Sobeys Inc.

•Summerhill

•Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

•Sustainable Buildings Canada (SBC)

•Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC)

•Sustainable Prosperity

•Telvent

•TD Bank Financial Group

•The Globe and MailL

•The TDL Group Corp.

•Toronto and Region Conservation Authority

•Toronto Region Research Alliance

•Tembec

•Trojan Technologies

•Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

•University of Guelph

•University of Queensland, Australia

•University of Toronto Centre for Environment

•University of Waterloo

•Walmart Canada

•Water Canada

•Waterlution

•WWF-Canada

•York Region

•And more!