Human River partner event:

Connecting Local
and Global Water Issues 

in the International Year of Sanitation

 

free workshop and walking tour

Saturday March 29, 2008

Walking Tour: "Toronto in the Age of Cholera"
- 1:00pm at SW corner, Queen's Quay & Bathurst

Workshop & Discussion: "Public Health and Drinking Water"
- 2:30pm at the Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina

For more information see below or, contact Riversides

at 416-868-1983 or info[at]riversides.org

 

Walking Tour:
? Discover the history of water and sanitation in Toronto with a walk along buried rivers.
Learn how epidemics influenced modern water systems and public health services. 

Helen Mills, Lost Rivers

 

Workshop & Discussion: 
? Connect to local and global water issues in our discussion of drinking water policy and international water sanitation. Share practical ideas for action and solutions!

Mike Layton, Environmental Defence
Christopher Waffle, Canadian Environmental Law Association
Drinking water in Ontario: the Clean Water Act and public health

Nadja Freeman, Results Canada
Sanitation and Health Issues Around the World

Toronto Public Space Committee's Human River
Sights and sounds from fall 2007's
community celebration along Garrison Creek

Refreshments will be served.?
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The first in a series of events recognizing the UN Year of Sanitation and World Water Day

This event is supported by the Water Guardians Network.


 

October 21st, 2007
~ Human River ~ Walk and Art Show ~

 

2007 Human River events

Human River 2006
 

The Garrison Creek still flows beneath our city. As it rushes under homes, cafes, roads and parks, we find signs of this lost river in tilting houses, dips in streets, buried bridges and a string of green valleys.

The third annual Human River celebrates the creek's path with a range of eclectic events, including: film, education, art and exploration. Join us to celebrate the water's past as a creek that carved our city, learn about it's present in Toronto?s storm sewers, and imagine it's potential future. Human River events culminate with a storytelling walk along the Garrison on October 21. With everyone wearing blue, we will become a human river bringing the Garrison Creek back to life!

This project is generously funded through the Community Program for Stormwater Management, a program of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority and the City of Toronto.

Human River 2006 - group shot

2006 Gallery

2005 Gallery

Links and Resources



Lost Rivers website
Rick Bébout website
Toronto Green Community
Toronto Field Naturalists

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